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Word 2000 vs Word 97
After playing around with a few ideas that didn't work, I
took your advice and closed the un-needed documents. My users are happy again. Thank you. -----Original Message----- Hi Jeff, In Word 2000, Microsoft introduced the "pseudo-SDI interface" (the multiple windows on the task bar). The users are going to see this whenever they work with multiple Word documents, as long as they're using only Word 2000. Romke Soldaat made a utility that will suppress this interface in Word 2000, but I hesitate to say you could use it with your merge app. you'd have to test how it works out. Word 2002 and 2003 have an option to use a single application window (as in Word 97). Note, however, that you could probably change your application to close the "unneeded" windows. For example, you probably wouldn't need to have the data document open? And if you provide code for executing the mail merge to a new document, that could also close the main merge document. I have a situation that needs some explaining and possibly a code work around. I have OLE2/VB processes,(that work fine as is), set up for my users to generate and save mail merge documents on the fly from and Oracle application. When the OLE2/VB code was written to achieve this our users were running Office 97. We have since switched to Office 2000 and shortly we will be using 2003. Although the OLE2/VB commands are running properly and the letters are being generated as before, my users are, (as all users can be), concerned that in the pre 2000/2003 days, when the OLE2/VB commands opened word, opened the template, opened the data file then merged them into a finished document, there was only one MS Word task appearing on their task bar. The template and data file were stacked behind the finished mailmerge document on the task bar. So it appeared to them as though there was only one thing on their task bar. Now, with 2000, and I suspect 2003, there are 3 MS Word tasks appearing on the task bar, (template, datafile, finished document). I know it sounds trivial to you and me but users are another animal. They're creatures of habit and don't like changes no matter how small. Is there any reason why this would happen? Does 2000/2003 just work differently when managing word documents through OLE2/VB commands? Is there some OLE2/VB command or commands I can incorporate into my application that will force 2000/2003 to act as 97 did? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) . |
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