I’m running MS Word 2000 at work (9.0.3821 SR-1, it if helps) and it has the most annoying feature:rolleyes: of spawning a new window for each document opened. I routinely have four or five documents open and really don’t care to have five Word icons in my taskbar as a result.
Is there any way to make Word 2000 behave properly and open only one instance of the program (and have only one instance in the taskbar) regardless of how many documents are open? I’ve been unable to find the answer in Word’s Help section.
Thanks, all.
I don’t have the answer but I share your pain. Excel 2000 does it, as well. It’s really annoying.
Hopefully someone here has the answer!
It’s simple enough to fix in Excel:
Click on Tools, then Options. If necessary, click on the View tab. Uncheck the Windows in Taskbar option, and that will take care of it.
Unfortunately, I’ve not yet found a way to do this in Word.
According to this site, there is no way to turn this feature off in Word 2000. They have a macro you can download that will fix it, but I haven’t tried it.
Good luck.
The idiots here: http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/wdKeepTrackOfOpenDocs.aspx
say that Word2000 has the same method of turning it off as Excel does. Well, my Word2000 doesn’t. I sent them a comment to that effect but of course, they don’t respond to individuals and there’s no other way to contact them.
I tried it and it didn’t work either, but then I noticed that it said this is not available in NT 4.0, which is what I’m using. What OS are you using?
I saw that too, but I’m Win2K SP2.
Thanks for the MS Assistance link, missbunny. As they say on their site:
Of course, they then qualify it with:
Just my luck. I’ll give you three guesses which operating system I’m using. And the first two guesses don’t count.
STARK, it’s not available in Win2K either. The “solution” MS provides is just wrong. I wonder about XP - anyone have it? I do on my home computer but not here.