ungrouping taskbar buttons (MS Word)

[Guest]

I have unchecked "group similar task bar buttons" in the properties section
for the windows task bar (XP Home), and other programs have been fine for
several months, except for Word 2003. It has only recently started to group
all word documents under the one button which drives me mad and I can't get
it to not do this. I need to alternate between documents regularly and this
makes it impossible. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have unchecked "group similar task bar buttons" in the properties section
for the windows task bar (XP Home), and other programs have been fine for
several months, except for Word 2003. It has only recently started to group
all word documents under the one button which drives me mad and I can't get
it to not do this. I need to alternate between documents regularly and this
makes it impossible. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

Look in Tools > Options > View and check the "Windows in Taskbar" box.

If it's already checked and you're still getting only one button,
something in your setup is damaged (but I don't know what).

 

[garfield-n-odie]

In addition to Jay Freedman's suggestion:
1. Repeatedly pressing Alt+F6 will cycle through all open
Word documents, whether they are in separate "task bar buttons"
or not.
2. Pressing Alt+W or clicking on the Window command will let
you choose a specific open document to switch to.

 

[Tony Jollans]

Word neither knows nor cares how Windows arranges task bar items - all that
Word does is tell Windows *what* to put in the task bar, not where or how.

I would think this is a Windows issue and it would be better asked in a
Windows newsgroup.