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Re: MS Office XP



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It's just a way they handle the multiply windows - actually it's the same
MDI, but the child windows are opening as the "independent" ones and have a
taskbar button each. As I said before, you may change this in the "Options".

DB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Fritz" <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
To: "omega" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: MS Office XP


> > Both in Office 2000 and XP this may be tuned up: you may set the
> > mode when your documents are opening in the independent new windows
> > or at the same MDI window. In both cases, the "Windows" menu allow
> > you to handle all opened documents.
>
> I don't have Office 2000 so I can't check it, but the note on the Langa
> List specifically said that you COULD NOT do that, even though you COULD
> in all other Office 2000 tools.
>
> In fact if you look at
> http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q230684
> you'll see that Microsoft admits Word 2000 supports only the Single
> Document Interface and that it cannot be turned off in Word 2000.  They
> say that only one executable (Winword.exe) is running, but a separate
> taskbar button appears for each document.
>
> Gary
>
>