Split document vertically

[Michael Justiniano]

Office 2007 Beta 2: I use the split funtion a lot, splitting the same
document into two horisontally. I would like the ability to split the same
document vertically, showing one part of the document on the left side and
another part on the right. Please inform me if this is currently possible.

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[Cindy M.]

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Office 2007 Beta 2: I use the split funtion a lot, splitting the same
document into two horisontally. I would like the ability to split the same
document vertically, showing one part of the document on the left side and
another part on the right. Please inform me if this is currently possible.

No, this is not supported in any of the built-in options. I have trouble
imagining what you'd use if for...?

Cindy Meister
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word 2003 offers this capability in the Window | Compare Side by Side
feature. It is not intuitively obvious that the two documents being compared
can be copies of the same document, but they can. I would hope that Word
2007 has a similar feature.

Office 2007 Beta 2: I use the split funtion a lot, splitting the same
document into two horisontally. I would like the ability to split the same
document vertically, showing one part of the document on the left side and
another part on the right. Please inform me if this is currently possible.

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[Michael Justiniano]

Hello Cindy. I'd use the function just the same as with the horizontal split
function; to view to different parts of the same document , e.g. when one
part is reffering to the other, and I can look at both parts at the same
time. It's only that I don't like the layout when splitting horizontally, and
therefore I'd like to split it vertically. With my widescreen display it
would show much more of both parts.

Michael

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As mentioned, Word 2003 offers Window | Compare Side by Side. Does Word 2007
not have this?

 

[Michael Justiniano]

Hi Suzanne.

No, it doesn't seem so. I tried to pick the same document, but they OK
button was greyed out. It had to be a document with another name, and then
loosing the feature I wanted. It should be as simple as to rightclick the
split line and choose either horisontally or vertically, or even to, three or
four splits.

Michael

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, I tried this in Word 2003, and the two documents have to be open
already before you can compare. So you have to choose Open as Copy in the
Open dialog so you have the original document and a copy open. You won't be
able to edit the copy (well, I guess you could, but you wouldn't be making
changes to the original), but if you just want a reference copy while you're
editing a different part of the original, this would work in Word 2003--no
idea what's available in 2007.

 

[Michael Justiniano]

Hi again, Suzanne, thanks for your reply. Exactly, then I wouldn't be able to
make changes both places, loosing the feature I wanted and which the
horisontal split function has. So Microsoft, please implement this

Michael

 

[Cindy M.]

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I tried to pick the same document, but they OK
button was greyed out. It had to be a document with another name, and then
loosing the feature I wanted

Try this (Word 2003, but it works in 2007 as well):

Open the document.

Window/New Window

Window/Compare side-by-side

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Michael Justiniano]

Great Cindy, thanks for your help This is definitely a much better layout
than with the split function. It does stack double up with buttons, but this
still made my work easier.

Michael

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWljaGFlbCBKdXN0aW5pYW5v?=,

It does stack double up with buttons

(2007) Double-click the tab name (Home) of the tab you're
currently working with, and you can hide that set of
buttons. Personally, I'd rather the windows be symmetrical,
but...

In 2003, if you deactivate "WIndows in Taskbar" in
Tools/Options/View you'll get all your Word windows in one
Word application window. Now you can "Arrange all". After
this, you can drag the windows side-by-side: one set of
tools over two windows.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jun 17 2005)
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks, Cindy. I *knew* there was a way to do this. Sorry for the red
herring/bum steer, Michael.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Suzanne,

Thanks, Cindy. I *knew* there was a way to do this.

Until you'd written what you'd looked at, I'd forgotten
about this route, so it's the blind leading the blind...


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
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Jun 17 2005)
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