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Brian Rumary
I don't think this is actually an application error, but perhaps
someone can help?
Back when I was using Word 1997 it was possible to have two or more
documents running at once. By going to _Window_ and clicking "Arrange
all" you got two or more documents arranged vertically on screen, each
in its own window, with just _one_ set of toolbars at the top of the
screen, shared by all windows. If you clicked on the [X] at the top
right of document window, then that document disappeared and its window
space was then assigned to the remaining open documents.
However when Word 2002 came out if you tried to "Arrange all" you just
got vertically tiled windows, each with a full set of toolbars for each
document. It seems that Word was running a complete sub-set of the
program for each document and was just vertically tiling these on
screen, as would happen if you tiled different running programs. If you
shut down one of the documents you were just left with remaining one
still at its "half screen" size.
This new way of "Arrange all" working was not very good as it wasted
too much screen space on multiple sets of toolbars, one per window.
However there was fix that enabled you to go back to the old way of
working with multiple documents and a shared toolbar set. It is some
time since I did this, but I *think* it involved altering the registry
entries for Word. Does anyone remember how to do this for Word 2002?
I have just installed Word 2007 and in "Arrange all" it seems to have
gone back to the 2002 method of running multiple instances of the
program and vertically tiling them on screen, complete with the full
ribbon for each window. This is even worst than before as the ribbon
now takes up more vertical space than the old toolbars! I know that you
can minimise the ribbon, but this is a nuisance and still inferior way
of doing things.
Does anyone know how to tweak Word 2007 (and Word 2010) to use "Arrange
all" with multiple windows one for each document, but with only one
ribbon shared by all of them? I know that I can use "view side by side"
for two documents, but this can make the text size very small,
especially if you have more than two documents open at once.
Brian Rumary, UK
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someone can help?
Back when I was using Word 1997 it was possible to have two or more
documents running at once. By going to _Window_ and clicking "Arrange
all" you got two or more documents arranged vertically on screen, each
in its own window, with just _one_ set of toolbars at the top of the
screen, shared by all windows. If you clicked on the [X] at the top
right of document window, then that document disappeared and its window
space was then assigned to the remaining open documents.
However when Word 2002 came out if you tried to "Arrange all" you just
got vertically tiled windows, each with a full set of toolbars for each
document. It seems that Word was running a complete sub-set of the
program for each document and was just vertically tiling these on
screen, as would happen if you tiled different running programs. If you
shut down one of the documents you were just left with remaining one
still at its "half screen" size.
This new way of "Arrange all" working was not very good as it wasted
too much screen space on multiple sets of toolbars, one per window.
However there was fix that enabled you to go back to the old way of
working with multiple documents and a shared toolbar set. It is some
time since I did this, but I *think* it involved altering the registry
entries for Word. Does anyone remember how to do this for Word 2002?
I have just installed Word 2007 and in "Arrange all" it seems to have
gone back to the 2002 method of running multiple instances of the
program and vertically tiling them on screen, complete with the full
ribbon for each window. This is even worst than before as the ribbon
now takes up more vertical space than the old toolbars! I know that you
can minimise the ribbon, but this is a nuisance and still inferior way
of doing things.
Does anyone know how to tweak Word 2007 (and Word 2010) to use "Arrange
all" with multiple windows one for each document, but with only one
ribbon shared by all of them? I know that I can use "view side by side"
for two documents, but this can make the text size very small,
especially if you have more than two documents open at once.
Brian Rumary, UK
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