Word 2k instance grouping on Win2k

[uberskunk]

Hi,

I have a problem that Word 2000 on Windows 2000 opens a new instance of word everytime a document is opened. Is there a way round this? So that all documents are opened in the first instance of word unless there are already 25 doc open, which is how it works in Word 97.

I am using Word 2k on XP at home and you can group them together by going through the task bar, but I can't find the same functionalilty in Win2k.

Any takers?

 

[pbrodsky]

I believe that Office 2000 changed the interface for Word to look like that, but you are not really getting multiple instances of Word. You can tell because the Windows menu will still show all your open documents.

 

[uberskunk]

Right,

So do you know of anyway I can group these together. So 10 open documents only have one startbar window?

I find it hard to believe that they would make this change and not let you alter it.