Word 2007 Document Close

[Guest]

Why does the new version of Word omit the "x" in the upper right corner of
the document that was used to close the document. I do not want to always
have to open the Office Button to close the document. MS fixed something
that wasn't broken apparently.

 

[Stan Brown]

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:44:08 -0700 from Losing Patience

Why does the new version of Word omit the "x" in the upper right corner of
the document that was used to close the document. I do not want to always
have to open the Office Button to close the document. MS fixed something
that wasn't broken apparently.

I haven't spent time with Word 2007, but in Excel 2007 most of the
old keyboard shortcuts still work. I'll bet Ctrl-W(*) will work to
close the current document in Word 2007 -- it's worth a try anyway.



(*) Oddly, Ctrl-W is *not* shown on Word 2003's File menu as a
shortcut for Close, but I've just now tried it and it works.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Simply add the Close button to your QAT. The 'x' is missing because Word
2007 (like some previous versions) uses Single Document Interface (SDI) and
not MDI.

 

[Guest]

Seems to me Microsoft could put that "simple" solution in their Help file --
but try searching Help for "close a document" and you get nothing that
remotely refers to it.

 

[CyberTaz]

And to make matters worse, some of the Office 2007 apps *do* use the MDI -
Excel, for example... You'd think they'd at least be _consistent_ throughout
the suite %>{ - what was that old "left hand / right hand" thing?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 8/31/07 4:10 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "2CV Lady" <2CV

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think there was considerable discussion of this during development, and
there were some technical obstacles it was impossible or impractical to
overcome.

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

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