Closing multiple windows

[kevs]

Word seems to be only app I have where I can't close multiple windows at
once. Is this correct? Am I missing something? Are others annoyed with
this? Thanks!

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Kevs,

There's a way to close all open windows at once. On the Tools menu choose
Customize. Click on the Commands tab. In the left pane click Files. In the
right pane locate "Close all windows" and drag the command to any toolbar or
menu. Click OK and you're done.

-Jim

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Or go to Tools | Customize, click Keyboard, find the Close All command and
assign cmd-opt-W to it like every other program. Investigate that Tools |
Customize dialog, using it to the full extent will make your Word experience
far better.

DM

 

[Elliott Roper]

Or go to Tools | Customize, click Keyboard, find the Close All command and
assign cmd-opt-W to it like every other program. Investigate that Tools |
Customize dialog, using it to the full extent will make your Word experience
far better.

I wish you could say "Word experience far better" with a straight face
while rummaging in the keyboard panes for the command you want. I
thought there would be a 'close all' too. That is what it is called in
the keyboard shortcuts list when you print it out with the 'macro'
dialog (why oh why is that in the macro menu?), but if you want to
avoid another 10 minutes picking through those 'all commands' in that
tiny stupid window for the random undocumented sequence of words that
might possibly match, I can tell you it is called FileCloseAll.

The frustration level in this case was not helped by discovering later
that it is in the file category and right near the top. I had long ago
given up on the category pane, since categories have always appeared to
be even more wilfully obtuse than the command names themselves.

The keyboard customize dialog is surely the most frustrating part of
Word. Notwithstanding the serious competition it gets from the other
over-nested panels that infest the product.

 

[kevs]

Thanks,
Got the close all button up and it's great. But I also tried the keyboard
and the "assign" button is grayed out, and the cursor wont type anything
in the " press new shortcut Key"

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks,
Got the close all button up and it's great. But I also tried the keyboard
and the "assign" button is grayed out, and the cursor wont type anything
in the " press new shortcut Key"

That panel has a personality disorder. Assign won't light up till you
have selected the text box and typed a 'chord' of keys. e.g. hold down
cmd and opt and type w. If the particular 'chord' is already in use, it
will give you a chance to change your mind.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I wish you could say "Word experience far better" with a straight face
while rummaging in the keyboard panes for the command you want. I
thought there would be a 'close all' too. That is what it is called in
the keyboard shortcuts list when you print it out with the 'macro'
dialog (why oh why is that in the macro menu?), but if you want to
avoid another 10 minutes picking through those 'all commands' in that
tiny stupid window for the random undocumented sequence of words that
might possibly match, I can tell you it is called FileCloseAll.

The frustration level in this case was not helped by discovering later
that it is in the file category and right near the top. I had long ago
given up on the category pane, since categories have always appeared to
be even more wilfully obtuse than the command names themselves.

It _usually_ helps to recall that the first component of a Command name is
the menu in which it appears as a menu item (e.g. "File" is the menu in
which "Close" appears. and so for "Close All" too, by extension.) However,
this tip is frequently negated by the fact that it's sometimes the menu name
in Word Windows, not Word Mac, that provides the first component of the
command name. If you don't know Word Win, that will be frustrating. A quick
check in the latest version of Word shows that the Mac menu is in fact used
almost everywhere now, but the "Word" menu does not actually belong to Word
but to the OS, so that's still "out of play" and not present. So you'd find
a particular Preference, for example not where you might expect -e.g.
WordPreferencesFileLocations - but rather as ToolsOptionsFileLocations,
where it would be in Word Win.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Elliot:

There is: It's Command + Shift + Q...

I wish you could say "Word experience far better" with a straight face
while rummaging in the keyboard panes for the command you want. I
thought there would be a 'close all' too. That is what it is called in
the keyboard shortcuts list when you print it out with the 'macro'
dialog (why oh why is that in the macro menu?), but if you want to
avoid another 10 minutes picking through those 'all commands' in that
tiny stupid window for the random undocumented sequence of words that
might possibly match, I can tell you it is called FileCloseAll.

The frustration level in this case was not helped by discovering later
that it is in the file category and right near the top. I had long ago
given up on the category pane, since categories have always appeared to
be even more wilfully obtuse than the command names themselves.

The keyboard customize dialog is surely the most frustrating part of
Word. Notwithstanding the serious competition it gets from the other
over-nested panels that infest the product.

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[Paul Berkowitz]

Hello?

Command + Shift + Q is an Apple system-wide shortcut that( tries to) quit
all open applications and Log Out as Mac user. It does ask you first.

It's not safe to override a system-wide shortcut, as I think you may have
done, John. Maybe you did it in an earlier version of Word in an earlier
version of the OS, and the pref was preserved? If you try it in Panther, at
least, by typing that shortcut into the dialog in Tolls/Customize/Keyboard,
the OS dialog checking whether you really want to quit all and log out in
120 seconds comes up over Word.

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From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:24:34 +1000
Subject: Re: Closing multiple windows

Elliot:

There is: It's Command + Shift + Q...

I wish you could say "Word experience far better" with a straight face
while rummaging in the keyboard panes for the command you want. I
thought there would be a 'close all' too. That is what it is called in
the keyboard shortcuts list when you print it out with the 'macro'
dialog (why oh why is that in the macro menu?), but if you want to
avoid another 10 minutes picking through those 'all commands' in that
tiny stupid window for the random undocumented sequence of words that
might possibly match, I can tell you it is called FileCloseAll.

The frustration level in this case was not helped by discovering later
that it is in the file category and right near the top. I had long ago
given up on the category pane, since categories have always appeared to
be even more wilfully obtuse than the command names themselves.

The keyboard customize dialog is surely the most frustrating part of
Word. Notwithstanding the serious competition it gets from the other
over-nested panels that infest the product.

--

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hello?

Command + Shift + Q is an Apple system-wide shortcut that( tries to) quit
all open applications and Log Out as Mac user. It does ask you first.

You have to be pretty careful with your pet McGhies, you can't always
tell when they are having a lend of you.

what he said was

From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:24:34 +1000
Subject: Re: Closing multiple windows

Elliot:

There is: It's Command + Shift + Q...

John has mastered the art of irony on usenet without smileys. I'm
pretty sure he took gentle exception to my rant about the keyboard
customisation not being of full merchantable quality. (aherm.. in the
*current* version.) I'm sure I'll have nothing to complain about when
my new one arrives

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Elliott:

Actually this time I was wrong and Paul was right: I stuffed up

The Word command is Shift + File>Close All, and as Dayo points out, by
default it has no keystroke assigned.

Sorry about that

Hello?

Command + Shift + Q is an Apple system-wide shortcut that( tries to) quit
all open applications and Log Out as Mac user. It does ask you first.

You have to be pretty careful with your pet McGhies, you can't always
tell when they are having a lend of you.

what he said was

From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:24:34 +1000
Subject: Re: Closing multiple windows

Elliot:

There is: It's Command + Shift + Q...

John has mastered the art of irony on usenet without smileys. I'm
pretty sure he took gentle exception to my rant about the keyboard
customisation not being of full merchantable quality. (aherm.. in the
*current* version.) I'm sure I'll have nothing to complain about when
my new one arrives

--

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]