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Documents opening in multiple instances, I want one instance
So I take it by your reply that tabs are not available. This is
stupid. MS is asking for someone to eat their lunch, and I hope someone does, soon. I'm tired of waiting for the tanker to turn to get what are very obvious, simple improvements in ubiquitious applications. C. Moya wrote: Office is in dire need of tabs. I seriously expected Office 2007 to improve on the window management aspects... it frustratingly has not. You're right-- it's 2006! Come on people! The inconsistent use of MDI between apps (contrast Word's *real SDI* to Excel and PowerPoint's *fake SDI* MDI confusing hybrid) is downright horrendous. A nice tabbed interface would solve everything. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com wrote in message oups.com... No, what I mean is tabbed pages, like how Firefox and Opera browsers display numerous web pages - with tabs at the top. The way that Word makes you go under the "Window" menu to select other documents that you have open is kind of ridiculous, considering this is 2006. Stefan Blom wrote: What tabs? If you mean tab stops, look in Format | Tabs to set tab stops for the currently selected paragraph(s). For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/SettingTabs.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... That worked, thanks a lot. Now, are there tabs in Word 2003? Stefan Blom wrote: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the View tab. Clear the "Windows in taskbar" option. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... I recently upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. I have a feeling this is an easy fix, so here goes. Every time I open a new Word document (i.e. double clicking on an attachment, double clicking on a file in a folder), Word opens a new instance of the application. What I was used to with Word 97 was new documents opening in a new window, in the same instance of Word. I want this functionality back. Also, as an aside, when is Word going to get with the program and have tabs for documents rather than making us deal with the stupid 'Window - Arrange All'? |
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Note the OP said *ubiquitous applications.* I think it's perfectly allright
for us Office users and fans to gripe about the lack of real innovation (once you get past the eye candy) in what is and always has been an otherwise fantastic software suite. Some of the bugs and neglected aspects in Office 2007 are simply unforgivable at this point in time. It often seems like many of the things were designed and/or coded by amatuers (IMHO). As the head developer at my company I for one will be campaigning hard to convince the Systems admins to not rollout Office 2007. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Greg Maxey" wrote in message oups.com... What are you grousing about? What is stopping you from forming you own software company? After you take that first step you can have the helm and steer your tanker on any course you desire. wrote: So I take it by your reply that tabs are not available. This is stupid. MS is asking for someone to eat their lunch, and I hope someone does, soon. I'm tired of waiting for the tanker to turn to get what are very obvious, simple improvements in ubiquitious applications. C. Moya wrote: Office is in dire need of tabs. I seriously expected Office 2007 to improve on the window management aspects... it frustratingly has not. You're right-- it's 2006! Come on people! The inconsistent use of MDI between apps (contrast Word's *real SDI* to Excel and PowerPoint's *fake SDI* MDI confusing hybrid) is downright horrendous. A nice tabbed interface would solve everything. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com wrote in message oups.com... No, what I mean is tabbed pages, like how Firefox and Opera browsers display numerous web pages - with tabs at the top. The way that Word makes you go under the "Window" menu to select other documents that you have open is kind of ridiculous, considering this is 2006. Stefan Blom wrote: What tabs? If you mean tab stops, look in Format | Tabs to set tab stops for the currently selected paragraph(s). For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/SettingTabs.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... That worked, thanks a lot. Now, are there tabs in Word 2003? Stefan Blom wrote: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the View tab. Clear the "Windows in taskbar" option. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... I recently upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. I have a feeling this is an easy fix, so here goes. Every time I open a new Word document (i.e. double clicking on an attachment, double clicking on a file in a folder), Word opens a new instance of the application. What I was used to with Word 97 was new documents opening in a new window, in the same instance of Word. I want this functionality back. Also, as an aside, when is Word going to get with the program and have tabs for documents rather than making us deal with the stupid 'Window - Arrange All'? |
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I was going to respond that some of the Office applications do use tabs.
Excel, OneNote, Visio all use them. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Greg Maxey" wrote in message oups.com... What are you grousing about? What is stopping you from forming you own software company? After you take that first step you can have the helm and steer your tanker on any course you desire. wrote: So I take it by your reply that tabs are not available. This is stupid. MS is asking for someone to eat their lunch, and I hope someone does, soon. I'm tired of waiting for the tanker to turn to get what are very obvious, simple improvements in ubiquitious applications. C. Moya wrote: Office is in dire need of tabs. I seriously expected Office 2007 to improve on the window management aspects... it frustratingly has not. You're right-- it's 2006! Come on people! The inconsistent use of MDI between apps (contrast Word's *real SDI* to Excel and PowerPoint's *fake SDI* MDI confusing hybrid) is downright horrendous. A nice tabbed interface would solve everything. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com wrote in message oups.com... No, what I mean is tabbed pages, like how Firefox and Opera browsers display numerous web pages - with tabs at the top. The way that Word makes you go under the "Window" menu to select other documents that you have open is kind of ridiculous, considering this is 2006. Stefan Blom wrote: What tabs? If you mean tab stops, look in Format | Tabs to set tab stops for the currently selected paragraph(s). For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/SettingTabs.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... That worked, thanks a lot. Now, are there tabs in Word 2003? Stefan Blom wrote: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the View tab. Clear the "Windows in taskbar" option. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... I recently upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. I have a feeling this is an easy fix, so here goes. Every time I open a new Word document (i.e. double clicking on an attachment, double clicking on a file in a folder), Word opens a new instance of the application. What I was used to with Word 97 was new documents opening in a new window, in the same instance of Word. I want this functionality back. Also, as an aside, when is Word going to get with the program and have tabs for documents rather than making us deal with the stupid 'Window - Arrange All'? |
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Not sure about OneNote... but all those use "subtabs" to show different
sections of the same document. It's not a "Tabbed Document Interface" where each document is shown as a tab in the parent window. FrontPage does use a Tabbed Document Interface. As does Access 2007 (with '07 format databases I think). Visual Studio .NET also uses tabs. In addition it also represents document "sections" (like Excel's multiple worksheets) using buttons at the bottom of the window. In fact, Visual Studio has one of the nicest interfaces I've ever seen (even if 2005 is on the buggy side). -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... I was going to respond that some of the Office applications do use tabs. Excel, OneNote, Visio all use them. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Greg Maxey" wrote in message oups.com... What are you grousing about? What is stopping you from forming you own software company? After you take that first step you can have the helm and steer your tanker on any course you desire. wrote: So I take it by your reply that tabs are not available. This is stupid. MS is asking for someone to eat their lunch, and I hope someone does, soon. I'm tired of waiting for the tanker to turn to get what are very obvious, simple improvements in ubiquitious applications. C. Moya wrote: Office is in dire need of tabs. I seriously expected Office 2007 to improve on the window management aspects... it frustratingly has not. You're right-- it's 2006! Come on people! The inconsistent use of MDI between apps (contrast Word's *real SDI* to Excel and PowerPoint's *fake SDI* MDI confusing hybrid) is downright horrendous. A nice tabbed interface would solve everything. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com wrote in message oups.com... No, what I mean is tabbed pages, like how Firefox and Opera browsers display numerous web pages - with tabs at the top. The way that Word makes you go under the "Window" menu to select other documents that you have open is kind of ridiculous, considering this is 2006. Stefan Blom wrote: What tabs? If you mean tab stops, look in Format | Tabs to set tab stops for the currently selected paragraph(s). For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/SettingTabs.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... That worked, thanks a lot. Now, are there tabs in Word 2003? Stefan Blom wrote: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the View tab. Clear the "Windows in taskbar" option. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... I recently upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. I have a feeling this is an easy fix, so here goes. Every time I open a new Word document (i.e. double clicking on an attachment, double clicking on a file in a folder), Word opens a new instance of the application. What I was used to with Word 97 was new documents opening in a new window, in the same instance of Word. I want this functionality back. Also, as an aside, when is Word going to get with the program and have tabs for documents rather than making us deal with the stupid 'Window - Arrange All'? |
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[I don't feel any need for tabs showing individual documents. Not worth the loss in screen real estate IMHO, and Alt-Tab is quick enough.] C. Moya wrote: FrontPage does use a Tabbed Document Interface. As does Access 2007 (with '07 format databases I think). Visual Studio .NET also uses tabs. In addition it also represents document "sections" (like Excel's multiple worksheets) using buttons at the bottom of the window. But _that_ approach I would like, using tabs in Word: say, in Normal View only, getting one tab for each section. Navigating between them via GoTo seems a lot more clumsy IMHO. [The setting should be configurable, since it would make no sense at all in a large merged letter, for instance :-)]. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
... [I don't feel any need for tabs showing individual documents. Not worth the loss in screen real estate IMHO, and Alt-Tab is quick enough.] No arguments here. TDI and SDI should be a choice. All I know is that regular MDI is all kinds of confusing, unintuitive, and it died 10 years ago. It's one of the worst UI window paradigms ever (not just my opinion... but pretty much every UI expert). But _that_ approach I would like, using tabs in Word: say, in Normal View only, getting one tab for each section. Navigating between them via GoTo seems a lot more clumsy IMHO. It's funny you mention that... I remember Lotus WordPro (AmiPro's successor) back in 1996 had just that very feature. (I used AmiPro in college). It was awesome. Word's Document Map alleviates some pains... but it could ohhhh so be improved upon if they had the inspiration to do it and put a little effort. [The setting should be configurable, since it would make no sense at all in a large merged letter, for instance :-)]. 2cents Robert |
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