See the Wikipedia article on 'Single Document Interface':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_document_interface. It will probably
explain things better than I can. However, the short answer is that Word 2007
(and almost every version of Word going back to 2002 at least) works this
way, and there is no setting that you can change to make it work differently.
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Cheers!
Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP
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"JLMJR" wrote:
I'm using MS Office 2007 and I can't figure out how to change things so that
I can have multiple documents opened in just one window. IEvery time I make a
new doc it insists on opening a new Word instance. If I have 2 or 3 word
windows open then I can switch between them using the View/Switch Windows
option but I would just prefer to not open multiple instances of word when
I'm working with 2 or 3 documents. What do I need to change or can I even do
this with the newer office app?