Very important: Word should get tabs like Excel !!--!!--!!--!!--!

[Samim]

Hello Microsoft,

Currently I am using Microsoft word 2007 a lot, due to my study in Business
management.

I am very happy with the product, however when opening several documents
with Word 2007 I do not have overview. The taskbar gets filled with open
documents.

It would be great if Word 2007 gets tabs within one open window, similar to
tabs below Excel 2007.

I hope you will take this into account and integrate my suggestion.

Thank you in advance.

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[Jay Freedman]

Something similar to that feature is already present, and has been for several
versions. In Word 2007, go to Office button > Word Options > Advanced > Display
and uncheck the option "Show all windows in the Taskbar".

Now, on the View tab of the ribbon you can click the Switch Windows button to
choose from the list of open documents, or press Ctrl+F6 or Ctrl+Shift+F6 to
cycle forward and back through the documents.

There is no set of tabs as in Excel. If you want the tabs, get a copy of the
OneNote program.

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[JG]

Hi Jay,

I was going to email Microsoft with the same suggestion. For me though, it's
not really about having an overview layout. The reason I think this addition
of tabs (or you could call them "chapters") would be beneficial is because it
would be a way to have a series of Words docs, all in one "workbook" like in
Excel. In my head I envision something that would look like a set of
dividers, maybe on the right hand side of the screen (by the scroll bar) and
you would click on the "chapter" that you want and you could format it any
way you want.

Another idea is a program where you would have a workbook and each "tab"
could be a Word, Excel or Powerpoint page.

Let me know what you think!

 

[Jay Freedman]

For the "group of documents" idea, try the workdocuments.zip download
from http://jay-freedman.info/.

The collection of related documents from different Office programs
used to be available in older versions of Office as the "Binder"
feature, but it was discontinued. I don't know why.