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Sorry for the confusing subject. I am trying to help a user who swears they
can do this.
We all have Office 2003 installed. Today a user came to me saying Word is
not handling closing of documents like it did before. I asked her to explain
this. She says that when there are multiple Word documents open (let's say
three) and she decides to close one of them using File - Close, that the
current document will close, but keep an empty instance of Word open. So in
this example, she would have three Word instances in the taskbar where only
two have documents in them.
I went back to my computer and a couple of others and I cannot get Word to
act this way. The way Word works for me is when you have multiple documents
open and you close one through File - Close, that Word instance closes with
the document. So in the example above, she would be left with two instances
of Word. It continues to do this till you only have one document open. At
this time closing the document only does that and leaves an empty Word
instance open.
The only thing I know to check is the "Windows in Taskbar" option under the
View tab in the Options. But this turns on single document interface. Meaning
only the current document will be viewable in the taskbar.
Does anyone know if Word can be made to act like her example? I have had
other people outside of work try this and they all get the same thing as I
do. Even a Word 2000 user confirmed that closing an open document closes the
instance with it.
I realize I am probably using "instance" in the wrong manner here, but I
wanted to be clear about what I was referring to. Thanks for the help.
can do this.
We all have Office 2003 installed. Today a user came to me saying Word is
not handling closing of documents like it did before. I asked her to explain
this. She says that when there are multiple Word documents open (let's say
three) and she decides to close one of them using File - Close, that the
current document will close, but keep an empty instance of Word open. So in
this example, she would have three Word instances in the taskbar where only
two have documents in them.
I went back to my computer and a couple of others and I cannot get Word to
act this way. The way Word works for me is when you have multiple documents
open and you close one through File - Close, that Word instance closes with
the document. So in the example above, she would be left with two instances
of Word. It continues to do this till you only have one document open. At
this time closing the document only does that and leaves an empty Word
instance open.
The only thing I know to check is the "Windows in Taskbar" option under the
View tab in the Options. But this turns on single document interface. Meaning
only the current document will be viewable in the taskbar.
Does anyone know if Word can be made to act like her example? I have had
other people outside of work try this and they all get the same thing as I
do. Even a Word 2000 user confirmed that closing an open document closes the
instance with it.
I realize I am probably using "instance" in the wrong manner here, but I
wanted to be clear about what I was referring to. Thanks for the help.