how do i stop wd from opening multiple applications for mutl-docs.

[Yelrab]

When I open multiple spread sheets using Excel they all open under one Excel
application, but when I open multiple word documents using MSWord they open
in individual applications resulting in multiple Word apps open at one time.
How do I change this so only one word app is opened?

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Yelrab,

There is only one instance of Word, although your documents
are opening in individual Windows (MDI - Multiple Document
Interface).

To turn this off and return to SDI (Single Document Interface):
Tools>Options
View (tab)
Windows in Taskbar (UNCHECK the box at top right)

 

[Jay Freedman]

When I open multiple spread sheets using Excel they all open under one Excel
application, but when I open multiple word documents using MSWord they open
in individual applications resulting in multiple Word apps open at one time.
How do I change this so only one word app is opened?

If you have Word 2002 or 2003, go to Tools > Options > View and clear
the checkbox for "Windows in Taskbar".

If you have Word 2000, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/SDIMDI.htm

In any of these versions, the separate windows for separate documents
aren't really multiple apps -- there is one copy of winword.exe
running, but displaying multiple windows. You can see this by running
the Task Manager and looking at the list of processes.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, it's the other way round--MDI is the old way and SDI the new.

 

[Pat Garard]

OOooopppppsssssssssss!!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Same difference. <g> MDI puts multiple documents in a single window; SDI
gives each document its own single window.