Question about 'Force Office 2000 to Open All Documents in the Same Window'
Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 10:18 am
Posted by John Connell
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about Force
Office 2000 to Open All Documents in the Same Window:
My QUESTION is: can MS Works 6 (stand-alone version of Works Suite 2001) be forced
to a multiple-document interface (MDI), i.e. having different documents shown as
pages in the same Works window?
I have always preferred to use Works, instead of Office, since buying Works 2 for
DOS in January 1990. (For younger readers, that DOS non-graphical program was a tour
de force in which 8 pages of any kind could be open simultaneously.)
But the single-document interface (SDI) of Works 6 is so bad that I switched back
to Works 4.5 (1997), which has the same MDI as every previous version of Works.
I would move forward to Works 6 again if we could change its interface to MDI.
Does anyone know about this?
Note that Works (through 4.5) is loaded as a SINGLE program, whose pages can be a
mixture of database, spreadsheet and word-processor. That is more integrated than
the MS Office suite.
It was a pleasure to read, in "Windows XP in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly 2002), about the
MDI-SDI problem and the possibility of opening Office documents in the same window
and to see a reference to this website.
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