Opening a Word doc from SharePoint ignores Word option

[Peter Yu]

Although the option "Show all windows in Taskbar" in Word 2007 is unchecked,
opening Word docs saved to SharePoint will still open them in separate
windows.

To see this, you can do the following:

1. Open any Word doc that's not saved to SharePoint.
2. Select Office Button->Word Options.
3. In the Word Options dialog, select Advanced, go to the Display section
and uncheck "Show all windows in Taskbar" if it's checked.
4. Close the Word Options dialog by selecting OK but leave Word open.
5. Navigate to a SharePoint site in IE and open up any Word document.

You'll see the SharePoint document opening in a separate Word window.

Is there a fix for this? Thanks for any help.

(I'm not sure where to post this question so have also posted it to the
SharePoint Server General Q&A and Discussions discussion group.)