In Word 2000 you have no choice but in later versions you do.

Under Tools Options View (tab) Show (section) uncheck "Windows in
Taskbar"

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Enjoy,
Tony


"aryev" wrote in message
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In older versions of Word, you could open two or three document files in
the
same program window--so that, for instance, you could open a document, a
file
for notes, and a file for research all of which pertain to one project,
and
have them all together in a single program window, and in another program
window you could do the same thing for another project. This way, you
could
toggle between projects, each with multiple document files open.
On newer versions of Word (I'm using 2002) each document file opens in its
own program window. Apparently there is no way to group together related
documents in the same window. Is there any way to fix this? Please help!