How do i open a second instance of word?

[Ishka_7]

I've been using an older version of Word for a long time now, probably Word
95 and using it since it was new. Now I'm trying to make friends with Word
2003.

I really would like to have two copies of Word running at the same time
(like I always have been doing) but I haven't been able to do that with 2003.
Is there
some obscure setting that has to be made?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is there some particular reason you want more than one instance of Word
running? You can open as many documents/windows in Word as you like, and
they're all displayed separately on the Taskbar by default.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I've been using an older version of Word for a long time now,
probably Word 95 and using it since it was new. Now I'm trying to
make friends with Word 2003.

I really would like to have two copies of Word running at the same
time (like I always have been doing) but I haven't been able to do
that with 2003. Is there
some obscure setting that has to be made?

Yep, it is definitely obscure. In Tools > Options > View, check the box for
"Windows in Taskbar".

This doesn't actually run a whole separate copy of the Word code; it just
puts each open document in a separate window instead of making them children
of a single window.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/SDIMDI.htm for some of the
implications of this setting.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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