Closing Applications

[bubs719-dd]

With Win XP when I open 2 word docs I get 2 entries on the task bar as
I do when I open 2 Excel spreadsheets (Both Word and Excel use SDI).
But when I close them (using the
close app button at top right corner) they behave differently. For word
it closes only that doc but for Excel it closes all spreadsheets. This
can be annoying when you've got lots of spreadsheets open. Is this a
bug or can you change its behaviour so it treats both applications the
same?

I'm on Word/Excel 2003 SP1.

Thanks

Nigel

 

[Guest]

have you done a recent update on your office products from microsoft office
update site? you can also go to help in any office program and do a detect
and repair..

 

[bubs719-dd]

Downloaded SP2 - made no difference.

have you done a recent update on your office products from microsoft office
update site? you can also go to help in any office program and do a detect
and repair..

 

[orc]

I had a similar experience when moving from word 97 to 2002 with word
opening 2 instances. I contacted MS support and was told this was normal
behaviour for word. they have change from a single instance with child
documents to multiple apps.
I think xl does similar but I'm still on an older version.

hope this helps
Orc

 

[Guest]

you should be on word sp2

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

not sure. i opened 2 word sessions and 2 excel sessions and each requires
to be closed individually. in an excel session with a number of tabs
opened, they will close all at once with a single click but the second
session is left open.

 

[Guest]

one little thing that might help is the "group similar tasks" in the taskbarr
properties. i noticed that if you check and uncheck the option, the example
of ie will merge two sessions or seperated them.......

 

[orc]

I'm on word SP3
MS support say's it supposed to act that way.