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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
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. -- 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... |
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