In addition to Ctrl+F4 (as has been discussed in this newsgroup umpteen
times) you may:
- Use Ctrl+W (a bit less of a stretch for the fingers), or use the keyboard
customization dialog to assign a shortcut to the Close command that you find
easier to remember.
- Use Alt+F,C (carried over from previous versions).
- Go to Office button Word Options Advanced Display and uncheck the
option "Show all windows in the Taskbar", which will add the separate "x"
for each document; but then you'll have to use View Switch Windows or the
shortcut Ctrl+F6 to go from one document to another when more than one is
open.
- Right-click the Close command on the Office button menu and choose to add
it to the Quick Access Toolbar.
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Graham Mayor wrote:
Educate yourself to use CTRL+F4 instead.
jreish wrote:
Hi all, in previous versions of Word, one could close a Word document
while leaving the program open (an "x" box in the upper right for the
document, separate from the one for the program). In Word07 there is
no such "x" box. Yes, I can go to the Office button and then click
"Close", but that's a pain -- extra navigating and clicks. In Excel
and PowerPoint you can still click an "x" to close the only file open
while leaving the program open, and in previous versions of Word you
could as well. Why this change to only one program in a suite?
Thanks.