Although it appears that multiple instances of Word launch, it actually
doesn't starting with Word 2000.  See the MS KB article at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;230684

for the full explanation.

It also shows you how to eliminate the buttons for each document on the
task bar in the article.

Doug

At 7/21/2003 10:35 PM, Doctor Data wrote:

>Hi all,
>I recently installed windows2000 on a client's desktop pc and reinstalled
>msoffice as well.  I installed MS Office 2000(small business edition).  In
>ms word, when she tries to open more than one word file from her My
>Documents folder, it opens up a new instance of the MS Word program.  If
>she's toggling between documents, she needs to alt-tab to get to each one
>rather than clicking on the window menu item to toggle.  In the past when
>she used windows95, she could open up multiple documents in one msword
>instance.  She is not having this problem with excel.  Is there an option to
>select in word so the program does not relaunch with every document that she
>opens?

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