opened-documents list: how to get to; how to read easily

[104]

The "opened-documents list" is at e.g.: Microsoft Office Word 2003:
Tools: Window: More Windows.

To restate or summarize a prior thread of helpful postings: Maybe you
can't increase the length of the opened-documents list, but you can
make it a tiny bit easier to get to such list, by assigning a
"macro" or key-combination shortcut to access the list quickly
(which by the way changes the normal.dot template). A way to create
such key-combination shortcut is: Tools: Customize: Keyboard:
Category=All
Command=WindowList
PressNewShortcutKey: Ctrl+Shift+W might be a sample good choice

But there is a remaining problem: now that you can get quickly to such
opened-documents list (which is entitled "Activate"), the list is
in a tiny box -- 3 inches by 3 inches, thus
precluding seeing all one's documents in one glance,
and precluding seeing the full name of any document that has a long
name.

DOES ANYONE HAVE A SUGGESTION TO ALLEVIATE THIS PROBLEM? Thanks.

(I'm using Windows XP Professional.)
(The prior thread of postings referred to above is at
<http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...9cd5?lnk=st&q=&rnum=19&hl=en#827ab24a11379cd5>.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm confused about where you're seeing this list. I don't have a Window
command on the Tools menu in Word 2003, nor is such a command listed in the
Tools category in the Customize dialog. Are you perhaps referring to the
Window menu on the Menu Bar?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Suzanne,

I belevie you are missing the "Keyboard:" part of the message.
Tools/Customize has a Keyboard button at the bottom.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't see any Window commands in the Tools category of the Customize
Keyboard dialog, either. I'm asking you where you are seeing this menu
option you describe as "Tools: Window: More Windows." There are no Window
commands on the Tools menu and no "More Windows" command on my Window menu,
though I'm willing to accept that if I had more than, say, nine documents
open at once, there might be.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Tony Jollans]

Suzanne,

The 'Tools' bit is a red herring. Your assumption about 'More Windows' only
appearing on the Window Menu if you have more than nine windows (not
documents) open is correct.

104,

AFAIK there is no way to resize the dialog box. It is one of many that are
like this. I accept it's rather poor design / implementation but is it
really such a big problem in your normal use of Word?

 

[104]

The 'Tools' bit is a red herring. ...

No, I don't think such bit is a false lead. I checked again and it
seems right.

... I accept it's rather poor design / implementation but is it
really such a big problem in your normal use of Word?

Yes. I posted because it would be useful to me to have a fix.

 

[104]

I'm confused about where you're seeing this [menu option]. I don't have a Window
command on the Tools menu in Word 2003 ...

Thanks for your reply. The menu option only appears when you have at
least 9 or 10 documents open.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You're still not getting it, are you? If I open more than nine documents, I
have the More Windows... command on my *Window* menu, but there is still no
such command on the *Tools* menu. If it is there, it is because you yourself
have added it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I'm confused about where you're seeing this [menu option]. I don't have a Window
command on the Tools menu in Word 2003 ...

Thanks for your reply. The menu option only appears when you have at
least 9 or 10 documents open.

 

[104]

You're still not getting it, are you? If I open more than nine documents, I
have the More Windows... command on my *Window* menu, but there is still no
such command on the *Tools* menu. If it is there, it is because you yourself
have added it.

Yes, sorry, my typo, in the original posting. Here is such OP, restated
after dropping the one word:
'The "opened-documents list" is at e.g.: Microsoft Office Word 2003:
Window: More Windows. ...
A way to create such key-combination shortcut is: Tools: Customize:
Keyboard ... .'

 

[Tony Jollans]

I'm sorry but you can't do anything about it.

I can't imagine what you're working with that this is such a big problem but
maybe you can do it another way.

If you set Windows in Taskbar (Tools > Options) then each window will have
its own Windows taskbar entry. If you have icon grouping switched on (I
forget how right now but I think its the default) then you should have one
taskbar icon which will give you a popup of all the Word windows from which
you can select the one you want.

 

[104]

"I'm sorry but you can't do anything about it [i.e. you can't see fully a list of all open Word documents with long names, in some order].

[T]his is [not] a big problem [for me] but
maybe you can do it another way [i.e. other than {Microsoft Word: Window: the open-documents list}].

If you set Windows in Taskbar (Tools > Options) then each [Word] window will have
its own Windows taskbar entry. If you have icon grouping switched on (I
forget how right now but I think its the default) then you should have one
taskbar icon which will give you a popup of all the Word windows ... ."

Yes, there is that workaround to try to see fully an ordered list of
all the open Word documents with long names -- I do have in the Windows
Taskbar a pop-up of all the open Word documents. The problem there is
that such pop-up and its list of documents:
- is narrower than is the document list at: {Microsoft Word: Window}
- seems to be ordered by chronology (i.e. by which Word document you
opened first). In contrast: {Microsoft Word: Window: the open-document
list} orders the documents alphanumerically.)