Re: opening two files in MS Word
- From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:21:22 -0600
For what it's worth, after opening the second document, you might try
hitting windows M to minimize and tab to the task bar to see what is
open.
----- Original Message -----
From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
I am sorry. they are .doc files and do open in word 2003. I did check
before
I started asking these questions, but I was unclear when I started this
thread.
Alicia
"The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of
>seeing people towards them."
>- Helen Keller, 1925
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
> Oh, that's right! She keeps calling them "text files," and has never
> said
> they were Word documents. Maybe that's worth asking.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
>
>
> Alicia,
>
> Are you sure these files are opening in Word? If they are .txt files,
> they
> would ordinarily open in either NotePad or WordPad, depending on the
> length.
> Neither of these programs allow more than one file to be opened at a
> time.
>
> Gary King
> w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:24 AM
> Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
>
>
>> There is no error message, but when I go to open a second word file
>> the
>> first document I had opened closes and Word will not allow me to have
>> more
>> than one open at a time.
>>
>> Alicia
>>
>> "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude
>> of
>>>seeing people towards them."
>>>- Helen Keller, 1925
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
>>
>>
>>> Well, that doesn't sound like any challenge to your computer's
>>> memory at
>>> all. How about the error message?I should say, as Jerry and others
>>> have,
>>> that I keep several docs open in Word often.
>>> .
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:43 AM
>>> Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
>>>
>>>
>>> The worksheet files are 54.4 kb and the textbook file is 65.78 kb. I
>>> have
>>> a
>>> machine that is running 512 of RAM. I know I need to toss in another
>>> stick
>>> because I bought this computer a year ago and I have not added any
>>> memory
>>> sticks to it since I bought it.
>>>
>>> Alicia
>>> "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude
>>> of
>>>>seeing people towards them."
>>>>- Helen Keller, 1925
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 9:26 AM
>>> Subject: Re: opening two files in MS Word
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Alicia,
>>>>
>>>> By "files," I assume you mean "documents." You're not wrong
>>>> calling
>>>> them
>>>> files, it's just that "document" is the operative term when
>>>> discussing
>>>> Word
>>>> in this way.
>>>>
>>>> That shouldn't be any problem at all. I don't know if there's
>>>> something
>>>> unusual about the types of documents you mention-- worksheets and
>>>> a
>>>> textbook-- but the only thing I can even imagine is that this
>>>> textbook
>>>> is
>>>> really enormous, consisting of so many megabytes that you don't
>>>> have
>>>> enough
>>>> RAM on your computer to have it open and anything else at the same
>>>> time?
>>>> But in a reasonably capable system these days, that doesn't seem
>>>> likely.
>>>>
>>>> What sort of error message do you get when you try to open these
>>>> things
>>>> together? Also, just to be sure, how much RAM do you have on
>>>> your
>>>> PC?
>>>> Before you let anyone influence you to get into a big project of
>>>> inspecting
>>>> and then deleting all sorts of running processes and this and that,
>>>> as
>>>> someone is likely to suggest, I hope you find another approach,
>>>> first.
>>>> So
>>>> let's start with error messages, file size (see? "file" is the
>>>> pertinent
>>>> word in this case) and RAM?
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 6:42 AM
>>>> Subject: opening two files in MS Word
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello, Everyone:
>>>>
>>>> was under the impression that Word would allow you to have more
>>>> than
>>>> one
>>>> file open at a time; however, it will not allow me to have my
>>>> worksheets
>>>> open and my textbook open. They are both Word files. Does anyone
>>>> know
>>>> if
>>>> Word will allow two files to be opened?
>>>>
>>>> Alicia
>>>> "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude
>>>> of
>>>>>seeing people towards them."
>>>>>- Helen Keller, 1925
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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