The 2003 Microsoft Office Editon of Word no longer allows you to minimize
individual documents. You only have the ability to minimize the entire
program or close individual documents / the entire program. As a writer, I
like to have several documents open at the same time, and need the minimize
feature to easily open, minimize and switch documents. I think is was a huge
mistake to eliminate the minimize button on individual documents and replace
it with the question text box. It would be incredibly beneficial to reinstall
the minimize button. Thank you.

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Tools--Options, View tab. Uncheck Windows in taskbar. Minimize all you
want.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"KLW630" wrote in message
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The 2003 Microsoft Office Editon of Word no longer allows you to minimize
individual documents. You only have the ability to minimize the entire
program or close individual documents / the entire program. As a writer, I
like to have several documents open at the same time, and need the
minimize
feature to easily open, minimize and switch documents. I think is was a
huge
mistake to eliminate the minimize button on individual documents and
replace
it with the question text box. It would be incredibly beneficial to
reinstall
the minimize button. Thank you.

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Ah! Thank you so much! Our department thought the command had been eliminated.

"Anne Troy" wrote:

Tools--Options, View tab. Uncheck Windows in taskbar. Minimize all you
want.
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"KLW630" wrote in message
...
The 2003 Microsoft Office Editon of Word no longer allows you to minimize
individual documents. You only have the ability to minimize the entire
program or close individual documents / the entire program. As a writer, I
like to have several documents open at the same time, and need the
minimize
feature to easily open, minimize and switch documents. I think is was a
huge
mistake to eliminate the minimize button on individual documents and
replace
it with the question text box. It would be incredibly beneficial to
reinstall
the minimize button. Thank you.

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Anne has given you one option, but in fact you can minimize documents
anyway. Each document has its own window; you minimize the window to
minimize the document. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/SDIMDI.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"KLW630" wrote in message
...
The 2003 Microsoft Office Editon of Word no longer allows you to minimize
individual documents. You only have the ability to minimize the entire
program or close individual documents / the entire program. As a writer, I
like to have several documents open at the same time, and need the
minimize
feature to easily open, minimize and switch documents. I think is was a
huge
mistake to eliminate the minimize button on individual documents and
replace
it with the question text box. It would be incredibly beneficial to
reinstall
the minimize button. Thank you.

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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.


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