A day after I wrote about OfficeTab in my previous post. The post gained more coverage when it got featured on DownloadSquad and the traffic just kept coming.
One commenter on DownloadSquad wrote that:
I can’t say I’m disappointed, though. I was intrigued, but it probably would have been counterproductive for me because I probably wouldn’t have been able to have separate documents open on each screen of my extended (dual-monitor) desktop.
It appears that you can compare documents side-by-side on a single monitor, but I need more of the documents to be viewable than a single monitor would allow.
Well there is a workaround for the problem of OfficeTab not allowing Office Apps from creating new windows/instances. Its overcome by forcing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to create a new process.
To open Microsoft Office App’s separately in a new process. Simply in the run command box either from the Start Menu or press Win+ R and type:
For MS words: “WINWORD.exe -p”
For Excel: “EXCEL.exe -p”
For PowerPoint: “POWERPNT.exe -p”
There you go, new instances of Word, Excel or Powerpoint for your dual monitor setup.
Another commenter “Sam” commented on SlashNow that:
I only now realized that the app has left an undesirable legacy and would like to warn others. After uninstalling the app, I can now have two documents open in word (btw, it’s word 2007) without knowing it. (I juggle a lot of documents at any given time, so it’s easy to lose track.)
In other words: There is no indication that I have more than one doc open – not within word, not in the toolbar. Only when I chose ‘View’ > ‘Arrange all’ am I able to see all open documents and access them (to e.g. close them). This is a rather annoying bug – if anybody has an idea how to change this back to the normal behavior (= every document has a toolbar icon), please do so. Thank you!
Sam, himself came up with the solution soon after:
1. My problem from my previous post can be fixed this way (in Word 2007);
Go to Word Options > Advanced > Section: Display > Show all windows in the taskbar
klick this and you can see all your documents again.2. Alternatively manage several open windows by doing this:
In the menu bar click on View > Switch windows
… and you’ll get to see all docs that are currently open.3. If you don’t want to see a seperate icon for each document on the taskbar:
Undo #1 (see above) AND just toggle between all open documents by using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+F6