[Graham Mayor]

If you find two clicks too onerous attach a keyboard shortcut to the View
WindowList command (ALT+W is available) and you don't need to touch the
mouse to select the Document from the list that pops up.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



thefred wrote:
Thanks Graham. The side-arrow and the Switch command in QAT are about
the closest I can come to a "preference" for tabs so I guess I'll
live with it.

Note that if you have a whole bunch of apps opened concurrently, you
have to "look" for that Word item; and switching windows is
two-clicks, plus you have drag the cursor all the way to the right, &
then down to find your doc.

With tabs, they all right there.

Thank you again.



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Click the arrow at the side of the Word item on the Windows taskbar
and you already have the documents listed. And if you add the Switch
Windows command to the Word 2007 QAT you can have all your open
documents presented at one click.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



thefred wrote:
Thanks Bob. Alt+W is what I've been using and it's tiring especially
when you have lots of docs opened. Frankly, having clear "visual" of
your docs all lined up in tabs and just clicking on them is much
easier & faster.

Look at it this way. it is a suggestion. I think this feature should
be made available to those who prefers to run the application in
this fashion. Others can disable it and continue the other way.
Just as in IE7, tabs can be turned on and off; this option should
be made available in Word.

Best...

"CyberTaz" wrote:

How about Alt+W & type the number assigned to the name of the doc
at the bottom of the Window menu? Or use the Windows Task Bar
buttons that represent the open files?

I truly don't see any advantage to cluttering up the [already
restricted] viewing area with a bunch of tabs that won't all fit in
the first place - and if they don't it would be even more trouble
to get to them regardless of what color they happened to be:-)

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 3/8/08 12:07 AM, in article
, "thefred"
wrote:

yes, I understand. I know tabs in Excel are within "A" workbook.
I also note that my verbiage was incorrect.

I did truly mean, that Word should allow separate unrelated opened
docs shown/aligned in COLOR tabs *similar* to Excel's tabs in a
workbook.

It's an absolute friggin' IQ test, at mid night or later, after a
whole day of labor, to try and keep track of your control-tab &
copy/paste between 10+ docs with that or more apps opened and
running in the background!

Nightmare.

As in IE7, doc-tabs should be able to be turned off and on so some
users can continue to clunk along loading Word zillions of times
while others can operate in a stream-lined, efficient, and
simplified "one-incident" manner.

Thank you.

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I don't normally let myself get involved in threads like this,
and really don't care whether or not Word has a 'tab feature'
(unless I'm forced to use such a thing against my will) but ...

... the equivalent of worksheet tabs in Excel is *not* document
tabs in Word. The Excel equivalent of a Document is a Work*Book*
and Excel does not have workbook tabs. It is just as awkward -
or just as easy, depending on your point of view - to work with
multiple workbooks in Excel as it is to work with multiple
documents in Word. In fact, if anything, I would say it is
probably easier to navigate a document in Word than it is to
navigate a workbook in Excel.


Exactly right. This is the nth-millionth time I have seen this
request in the last 5 years, and every single time people fail to
realize that the tabs in Excel represent different Worksheets
within a single workbook, and not different Workbooks within the
Excel application. I guess the only way that Word could work like
Excel is if Word had tabs to represent pages within the
document.... But that makes no sense! Hence, no tab!

You can't compare apples and oranges...