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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
Please add the worksheet feature of Excel in Word to coordinate the handling
and managing of multiple opened docs. Each document should be a tab inside of ONE application of Word. Right now it is an absolute PITA to work with say 5 opened documents, especially if I have five or more different applications running in the background. I know about switching windows but I can skip that if the tabs are right there. Streamline. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
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. It is highly unlikely that I will reply to any response to this; I just thought the point of fact was worth making. -- Enjoy, Tony "Peter A" wrote in message om... In article , says... Please add the worksheet feature of Excel in Word to coordinate the handling and managing of multiple opened docs. Each document should be a tab inside of ONE application of Word. Right now it is an absolute PITA to work with say 5 opened documents, especially if I have five or more different applications running in the background. I know about switching windows but I can skip that if the tabs are right there. Streamline. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t I disagree - in fact, I wish they would change Excel to work the way Word does. Having each open Word doc in its own program window greatly simplifies tasks that require viewing 2 or more docs at the same time. To be honest, though, you would think that the programming whizzes in Redmond could figure out a way to let the user select either display method. -- Peter Aitken Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers www.tech-word.com |
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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
"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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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
Actually, Word does have the equivalent of a tab for each page if you count
Thumbnails. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message ... "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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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Actually, Word does have the equivalent of a tab for each page if you count Thumbnails. But aren't thumbnails only available in reading layout? (I mean they cannot be used as helpful navigational tools while working on the document in Normal or Print view, which would not be usfeul anyway as soon as the document went over 20 pages or so.) |
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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
In Word 2003 they're available in every view but Web Layout view. And you
can scroll the thumbnails (just as you can the Document Map) to locate a specific portion of the document. The thumbnails scroll independently of the document, and you can click on a specific thumbnail to go to that page. Not very helpful if the document is all text, but if it contains graphics, tables, charts, or anything else recognizable at thumbnail size, they can be useful. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Actually, Word does have the equivalent of a tab for each page if you count Thumbnails. But aren't thumbnails only available in reading layout? (I mean they cannot be used as helpful navigational tools while working on the document in Normal or Print view, which would not be usfeul anyway as soon as the document went over 20 pages or so.) |
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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
In Word 2003 they're available in every view but Web Layout view. And you can scroll the thumbnails (just as you can the Document Map) to locate a specific portion of the document. The thumbnails scroll independently of the document, and you can click on a specific thumbnail to go to that page. Not very helpful if the document is all text, but if it contains graphics, tables, charts, or anything else recognizable at thumbnail size, they can be useful. I have never used that feature. I have just noticed that there is a "Thumbnails" item on the view menu. I took me just four years to notice it! Thanks for pointing this out. As you wrote, it maybe useful when handling documents with lots of graphics or short documents. |
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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
I confess I haven't actually used the feature, but I'm now realizing that it
would have been useful in dealing with the 600+-page book I just completed, which did include a number of graphics. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In Word 2003 they're available in every view but Web Layout view. And you can scroll the thumbnails (just as you can the Document Map) to locate a specific portion of the document. The thumbnails scroll independently of the document, and you can click on a specific thumbnail to go to that page. Not very helpful if the document is all text, but if it contains graphics, tables, charts, or anything else recognizable at thumbnail size, they can be useful. I have never used that feature. I have just noticed that there is a "Thumbnails" item on the view menu. I took me just four years to notice it! Thanks for pointing this out. As you wrote, it maybe useful when handling documents with lots of graphics or short documents. |
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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
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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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
Personally I would find copying and pasting between 10 or more documents a
nightmare at any time of the day with or without tabs. What on earth are you trying to do? -- Enjoy, Tony "thefred" wrote in message ... 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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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
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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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
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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Word should have colored tabs for opened documents
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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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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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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