Documents in Multiple Monitors

[CMM]

Excel and Powerpoint (even in Office 2007) make it ludicrously hard
(impossible?) to view two documents on multiple monitors. Even seeing them
side by side is unintuitive (compared to Word).

Will this be finally addressed in Office 2007? It wasn't as of the last beta
I tried.

 

[cschiller1]

I'm able to do it with my multiple monitor setup. What problems are you
having? How are you trying to do it?

Craig

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

C,

I think this varies with your video adapter, but here's what I do. I have a
Radeon 7500 adapter. You might check for settings in your adapter that
might bear on this (Start - Control Panel - Display).

Excel won't maximize across both my monitors. So I leave Excel in a window
(not maximized), then stretch it across both monitors. Then I leave the
document windows inside Excel as windows, and adjust them to fit each
monitor. It's a bit of trouble, but with two large monitors, I'm used to
sizing and moving windows around a lot anyway. This is pretty much what
you'd do with a single monitor, except that you could leave Excel maximized.

Alternately, I can run two instances of Excel (start a second with the Start
button). In that case, either will maximize to the nearest monitor. Then I
can run the document windows (one in each instance) maximized.

When working with VBA, it's handy to have the VBE in a separate monitor.
Then I can step through the code and watch all the wrong stuff that's
happening in the worksheet.

Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Excel and Powerpoint (even in Office 2007) make it ludicrously hard
(impossible?) to view two documents on multiple monitors. Even seeing them
side by side is unintuitive (compared to Word).

Will this be finally addressed in Office 2007? It wasn't as of the last beta
I tried.

Only someone inside MS could say whether this is likely to change between now
and release date and they wouldn't be *allowed* to say. It seems unlikely that
any major new features would be introduced at this late date, though, so if I
were a bettin' man, I'd be putting money on "No".

I expect you already know this but you can open two presentations, drag the PPT
window across both monitors then choose Window, Arrange All. Not as nice as
having two independent document windows you can drag around, but a start.

 

[CMM]

The Start Menu trick to open to instances doesn't work for PowerPoint.

Furthermore, the stretch window/arrange all *workaround* is... well,
stupid... a hassle, and doesn't work very well. Both these programs (with
the Windows in Taskbar option set) should work consistently with Word.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

C,

I think this varies with your video adapter, but here's what I do. I have
a Radeon 7500 adapter. You might check for settings in your adapter that
might bear on this (Start - Control Panel - Display).

Excel won't maximize across both my monitors. So I leave Excel in a
window (not maximized), then stretch it across both monitors. Then I
leave the document windows inside Excel as windows, and adjust them to fit
each monitor. It's a bit of trouble, but with two large monitors, I'm
used to sizing and moving windows around a lot anyway. This is pretty
much what you'd do with a single monitor, except that you could leave
Excel maximized.

Alternately, I can run two instances of Excel (start a second with the
Start button). In that case, either will maximize to the nearest monitor.
Then I can run the document windows (one in each instance) maximized.

When working with VBA, it's handy to have the VBE in a separate monitor.
Then I can step through the code and watch all the wrong stuff that's
happening in the worksheet.

Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com