Opening more than one copy of a document

[guanzhi]

I sometimes have to translate a document by replacing the text in
the original. However, i would like to be able to view the unaltered
original while I am doing this. In Word 2003 for the PC, I can open
two copies at the same time but I have not been able to get this
to work in Word 2004 for the Mac. Is there some way to do this?

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

It's the same place it is on the PC: Window>Split...

However, what I would do (... The only SAFE thing to do) is to open the
original and Save As under a different file name. Then re-open the original
as a separate document.

This enables you to continue to save the translated copy while you are
working without changing the original.

I normally set the original file to Read Only so it always opens that way.

To avoid getting confused, I normally highlight all of the text in the
original and apply a pale pink background, to remind me not to change that
one because it's the original. I can thus see at a glance which window is
open.

Hope this helps

I sometimes have to translate a document by replacing the text in
the original. However, i would like to be able to view the unaltered
original while I am doing this. In Word 2003 for the PC, I can open
two copies at the same time but I have not been able to get this
to work in Word 2004 for the Mac. Is there some way to do this?

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Or Window | New Window will give you a full new window with the same
document, instead of one split in half.

But I'm with John--I would ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY use two separate
documents for this via a Save As.

Daiya

 

[JE McGimpsey]

them equally sized & positioned one above the other. It's the equivalent of
the Tile Horizontally feature on the PC. Unfortunately there isn't a Tile
Vertically option - you'll have to do that manually.

Or you could use my Vertical_Arrange_All add-in that tiles Vertically:

http://mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/verticalwindows.html

 

[CyberTaz]

Didn't know ya had one - but shoulda figgered as much!

Thanks for sharing, John! I'll take a look at it this weekend.