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Brian Gordon wonders: <<A coworker wants Word to open a new instance of
Word every time he opens a doc. My version of Word does this
automatically, but his simply opens a new document on top of the other
one. (He is a developer and has two computer screens.) That is, I have
multiple Word programs open, as shown at the bottom of the screen; he
has only one. >>
This probably isn't a separate instance of Word, which could prove
hazardous under certain circumstances (e.g., two programs trying to
simultaneously modify the same registry entry or template would
probably cause a major crash). In all likelihood, you're just seeing
different windows managed by one copy of Word, but presented in
different ways.
The difference between what you see probably results from differences
in the version of Word that you're using; I believe Word 2000 abandoned
the multiple-document interface (one entry in the Windows task bar) in
favor of separate entries in the task bar, and Word XP and later (or 97
and earlier) retained this approach, and that's probably what's
happening in your case.
Ask the following question instead: Why would you want to see two
entries in the task bar? The answer determines how to achieve the
desired results. If all you want to do is be able to switch between
document windows, Control-F6 (Command-F6 or Command-` on the Mac) does
this nicely. If you want to see a different document in each monitor,
try this instead: Open the Window menu, and select "Arrange all" or
possibly "Tile windows", depending on which version of Word you're
using. Then drag the second window into the second monitor. Voila!
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