[louise]

Win XP Pro SP3 and Office 2003

I just got a widescreen monitor and have been looking
forward to having two Word documents open side by side so
that I could refer to one while I write the other.

But I'm not having much success. When I open the two
documents and resize them so that they fit next to each
other, the text isn't reformatted and I have to use the
horizontal scrollbar on each document to read to the end of
each line - obviously, this is not what I'd hoped for :-)

I see that I can open the documents horizontally, one on top
and the other on bottom. Is this the only way to do what I
want or is there a trick for opening them side by side
without extensive use of the horizontal scrollbar?

Thanks.

Louise