What s With The Taskbar? | Dreamboat on Word: Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003 (On Office series)

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What’s With The Taskbar?

When Microsoft came out with Office 2000, everyone screamed and howled about the multiple buttons that appeared on the Windows taskbar. Now, each document that you open in Word gets its own taskbar button. Personally, I like the feature because I use Word much more than other programs, but I can see the argument for others.

The strange thing about this “windows in taskbar” thing is that they made a setting to turn it off in Excel, but not in Word. What’s up with that? The only alternative was some lame template that made things even worse. No offense to the coder of that template—I imagine they did their best.

With Word 2002/XP, they finally added the option to turn the feature off. Just go to Tools Options, View tab and untick the option. If you’re using Word 2000, I suggest you just get used to it until you install 2002/XP or above.

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