I have unchecked "group similar task bar buttons" in the properties section
for the windows task bar (XP Home), and other programs have been fine for
several months, except for Word 2003. It has only recently started to group
all word documents under the one button which drives me mad and I can't get
it to not do this. I need to alternate between documents regularly and this
makes it impossible. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:25:01 -0700, "Frustrated"
wrote:

I have unchecked "group similar task bar buttons" in the properties section
for the windows task bar (XP Home), and other programs have been fine for
several months, except for Word 2003. It has only recently started to group
all word documents under the one button which drives me mad and I can't get
it to not do this. I need to alternate between documents regularly and this
makes it impossible. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

Look in Tools Options View and check the "Windows in Taskbar" box.

If it's already checked and you're still getting only one button,
something in your setup is damaged (but I don't know what).

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

In addition to Jay Freedman's suggestion:
1. Repeatedly pressing Alt+F6 will cycle through all open
Word documents, whether they are in separate "task bar buttons"
or not.
2. Pressing Alt+W or clicking on the Window command will let
you choose a specific open document to switch to.

Frustrated wrote:

I have unchecked "group similar task bar buttons" in the properties section
for the windows task bar (XP Home), and other programs have been fine for
several months, except for Word 2003. It has only recently started to group
all word documents under the one button which drives me mad and I can't get
it to not do this. I need to alternate between documents regularly and this
makes it impossible. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

Word neither knows nor cares how Windows arranges task bar items - all that
Word does is tell Windows *what* to put in the task bar, not where or how.

I would think this is a Windows issue and it would be better asked in a
Windows newsgroup.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Frustrated" wrote in message
...
I have unchecked "group similar task bar buttons" in the properties
section
for the windows task bar (XP Home), and other programs have been fine for
several months, except for Word 2003. It has only recently started to
group
all word documents under the one button which drives me mad and I can't
get
it to not do this. I need to alternate between documents regularly and
this
makes it impossible. Why is this happening? Any ideas?