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Is there a way to put TABS on Sheets in WORD 2003?

Oct 4, 2005 12:08AM PDT

You know how, when you open a worksheet in EXCEL, it opens up showing three sheets with a tab at the bottom that says "SHEET 1", "SHEET 2", "SHEET 3"? Is there a way to do that for document sheets in WORD 2003". The tabs can be anywhere on the page (i.e., it doesn't have to be at the bottom). Thanks.

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That would be very nice indeed.
Oct 4, 2005 5:57AM PDT

Much more user-friendly than ctrl-f6 and shift-ctrl-f6, and somewhat more user-friendly then Window>docname.

It seems that IE7 gets tabs (like Firefox). Maybe Word 12 will be the next?


Kees

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Thanks, but I can't get your commands to work for me.
Oct 4, 2005 10:24AM PDT

Can you give me more details? When I try shift-ctrl-f6 or ctrl-f6 in a WORD document, nothing happens and I don't know what to do for "Window>docname". What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

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What it does...
Oct 4, 2005 1:42PM PDT

Kees was making the point that at this time Word lacks the ability to use tabs. The only option available is to use ctrl + F6, which lets you cycle through active Word documents. However, with Microsoft warming up to tabs in Internet Explorer 7, hopefully they'll also add tabbing to Office 12, which is currently in the making. (Click here for more information.)

Hope this helps,
John

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Did you have multiple documents open?
Oct 4, 2005 3:25PM PDT

You said Ctrl-F6 and Ctrl-Shft-F6 did nothing. Since they move back and forth among open Word documents, similar to the way Alt-Tab and Shft-Alt-Tab move back and forth among apps, if you have only one open, they can do nothing because there is nothing to shift to.

As Kees and John said, it lacks the advantages of tabbing -- you must cycle through the documents rather than go directly to your target -- but it is the best you have now.

Frank

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NOW I see! I might as well just do it in Excel, though.
Oct 5, 2005 6:15AM PDT

Thanks for the help. I opened up a few WORD documents and did the <SHIFT><CTRL><F6> and I see what you all mean. I should explain why I want to do what I'm trying to do. I chair a lot of meetings for which I have to come up with agendas. What I did in Excel is to create a Worksheet called AGENDAS. In this file, I've renamed the "SHEET1" "SHEET2" etc., tabs to the name of a meeting I conduct, i.e., SHEET1 is now "BOSS", SHEET2 is now "STAFF", SHEET3 is now "SALES", etc. When I think of an appropriate agenda item for a meeting, I click on the appropriate meeting tab and put it on that page. Sometimes I need to put the same item on several agendas so the tabs make it easier. If I create a separate document for each agenda then open each one, the <SHIFT><CTRL><F6> thing could work, but it would be even easier to just move the mouse over the document name on the task bar (kind of like tabs). It's easier having ONE document to open, with all the agenda pages in one place.