Word Viewer

[Herb]

I use Word Viewer to open as the default application for .doc files.

Unfortunately, Word Viewer 2003 doesn't appear to offer an option for
hiding revisions, so I went back to Word Viewer 97, which works fine and
does everything I need (I think), but there is one problem I didn't have
with Word Viewer 2003:

Every time I open a a .doc file for editing in Word from within Word
Viewer, a new instance of the Word Viewer is opened which means that I
end up with several/many Word Viewer 97 empty windows and associated
icons cluttering my taskbar.

Is there a way of closing Word Viewer automatically when a file is
opened for editing?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel

 

[Herb]

I use Word Viewer to open as the default application for .doc files.

Unfortunately, Word Viewer 2003 doesn't appear to offer an option for
hiding revisions, so I went back to Word Viewer 97, which works fine and
does everything I need (I think), but there is one problem I didn't have
with Word Viewer 2003:

Every time I open a a .doc file for editing in Word from within Word
Viewer, a new instance of the Word Viewer is opened which means that I
end up with several/many Word Viewer 97 empty windows and associated
icons cluttering my taskbar.

Is there a way of closing Word Viewer automatically when a file is
opened for editing?

No comments on my recent Word Viewer question? :-(

If the answer to my original question is no, I wonder whether there is a
way of closing all Word Viewer windows in one go?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel

 

[Guest]

I would guess that no one here knows. As Word users, we don't use and thus
have no experience with he Viewers. Personally, I have never used any
version of a viewer.

 

[Herb]

I would guess that no one here knows. As Word users, we don't use and thus
have no experience with he Viewers. Personally, I have never used any
version of a viewer.

Is there anywhere else I could ask?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel

 

[Tony Jollans]

Like Terry, I have no experience of the Viewers. I would suspect, however,
that they work for Word documents, in the same way Notepad does for various
text documents - that is, each document in a separate instance, or as a
separate operating system task and that the answer to all your questions is,
sorry, but no.

If you do open Word documents for editing, what program do you use? And why
not use it for viewing also? I can appreciate that there may be occasions
when editing rather than viewing causes the odd problem or irritation - but
is it really more so than the viewer?

If you are using Word for editing, you could write a macro to run when
opening a document to check whether the same document was currently open for
viewing and if so to close the viewer, but it would not be simple code.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Herb,

Word 97-2000 viewer opened a separate instance of the viewer for each document and also a separate instance of Word for each 'open
for Editing in Word' choice from the viewer. In both cases MS's advice, once the new viewer version came out was upgrade to the
newer Word2003 viewer. Basically most of the suggestions (bug fixes) were in the newer viewer rather than continue to update the
97-2000 copy.

There isn't, that I recall, any built in way to do what the autoclose. You could, perhaps, do it programatically (externally - as
the viewers don't support macros).

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I use Word Viewer to open as the default application for .doc files.

Unfortunately, Word Viewer 2003 doesn't appear to offer an option for
hiding revisions, so I went back to Word Viewer 97, which works fine and
does everything I need (I think), but there is one problem I didn't have
with Word Viewer 2003:

Every time I open a a .doc file for editing in Word from within Word
Viewer, a new instance of the Word Viewer is opened which means that I
end up with several/many Word Viewer 97 empty windows and associated
icons cluttering my taskbar.

Is there a way of closing Word Viewer automatically when a file is
opened for editing?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel <<

 

[Herb]

Like Terry, I have no experience of the Viewers. I would suspect, however,
that they work for Word documents, in the same way Notepad does for various
text documents - that is, each document in a separate instance, or as a
separate operating system task and that the answer to all your questions is,
sorry, but no.

If you do open Word documents for editing, what program do you use? And why
not use it for viewing also? I can appreciate that there may be occasions
when editing rather than viewing causes the odd problem or irritation - but
is it really more so than the viewer?

Hi Tony,

thanks for your reply. While working with my translation memory software
on my main screen I tend to view the original source documents on my
secondary screen. I use Word Viewer because Word seems to have a habit
of using an excessive amount of CPU resources for some of the documents
I deal with.

If you are using Word for editing, you could write a macro to run when
opening a document to check whether the same document was currently open for
viewing and if so to close the viewer, but it would not be simple code.

An interesting idea, thank you. I know a few macro experts and I might
pursue this.

Regards

Herbert Eppel

 

[Herb]

Hi Herb,

Word 97-2000 viewer opened a separate instance of the viewer for each
document and also a separate instance of Word for each 'open for
Editing in Word' choice from the viewer. In both cases MS's advice,
once the new viewer version came out was upgrade to the newer
Word2003 viewer. Basically most of the suggestions (bug fixes) were
in the newer viewer rather than continue to update the 97-2000 copy.

There isn't, that I recall, any built in way to do what the
autoclose. You could, perhaps, do it programatically (externally -
as the viewers don't support macros).

Hi Bob,

thanks for your reply.

I am coming to the conclusion that the advantages of Word Viewer 2003
over Word Viewer 97 outweigh the disadvantage of not being able to
switch off the display of revisions, and I'll probably switch back to
Word Viewer 2003.

Regards

Herbert Eppel

 

[Herb]

I am coming to the conclusion that the advantages of Word Viewer 2003
over Word Viewer 97 outweigh the disadvantage of not being able to
switch off the display of revisions, and I'll probably switch back to
Word Viewer 2003.

Easier said than done, because my W2K laptop doesn't quite seem to
recognise Word Viewer 2003!

It appears to install properly and is listed alright under "Add/Remove
Programs" and I see the Word Viewer icon for doc files in Windows
Explorer, but for some mysterious reason Word Viewer is not listed under
"Open With", and when I select Wordview.exe via "Other" in the "Open
With" window the selection doesn't 'stick', i.e. next time I
double-click on a doc file I get a "Program Not Found" window :-(

It works perfectly well on my W2K PC, and I have no idea why it doesn't
work on the laptop.

Any suggestions, or should I ask in microsoft.public.win2000.general ?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Herb,

The default behavior of the Word 2003 viewer is for it to uninstall the old one, but sometimes the file associations get 'stuck'.
You may want to uninstall the viewer, run Disk Cleanup, restart the PC then install it to see if you get a different result.

You may also want to delete the file associations for .doc files before installing the viewer if that's your default app for opening
those files.

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On 17.10.2006 08:30 UK Time, Herb wrote:
Easier said than done, because my W2K laptop doesn't quite seem to
recognise Word Viewer 2003!

It appears to install properly and is listed alright under "Add/Remove
Programs" and I see the Word Viewer icon for doc files in Windows
Explorer, but for some mysterious reason Word Viewer is not listed under
"Open With", and when I select Wordview.exe via "Other" in the "Open
With" window the selection doesn't 'stick', i.e. next time I
double-click on a doc file I get a "Program Not Found" window :-(

It works perfectly well on my W2K PC, and I have no idea why it doesn't
work on the laptop.

Any suggestions, or should I ask in microsoft.public.win2000.general ?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel >>