[X4U] Re: Spreadsheets that can split window > 1 time

stephen e. schwartz ses at bnl.gov
Tue Apr 1 10:22:36 PDT 2008


thanks, daly, but shucks; there goes one of my reasons to hail word 5.1a
for the mac as the best word processor ever (but only one of many).

does this work for excel? would solve the original problem.

-steve

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>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:41:50 -0700
>From: Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com>
>Subject: [X4U] Re: Spreadsheets that can split window > 1 time
>
>>slightly OT, but Microsoft Word 5 (various versions) allows you to open
>>multiple copies of the same document; they are all mirrored, so change
>>something in one copy and it makes the change in all; real nice for looking
>>at multiple places in the same document. or cut from one place in the
>>document and paste into another without having to scroll around. close any
>>duplicate copy and it doesnt prompt you to save; only when close the last
>>remaining open window does it prompt you to save. nifty software design,
>>sadly lost in later versions of that software.
>
>Really,isn't isn't lost. It's worked in every version of Word I know
>of. I'm using Word 2004 right now, and haven't tested that in Office
>2008, but it's simply:  Windows menu/New Window - as many times as
>you want additional windows of the same content.
>
>Daly




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