word/office help0r!

[Testin da Cable]

is there any decent way to quickly swap between multiple open documents in a single instance of word? you know, a la /alt-tab/ or something?

I'm editing several documents at once from a standard template and all the doc-swapping is driving me batshit :/

 

[dysfunction]

Why not "tile" the documents?

Can do this under the Window menu and click "arrange all"

 

[whipped]

Why not try ctrl+tab?

 

[Testin da Cable]

because they're huge and doing the tile thing will make me even more insane than I already am :/

I was hoping for something along the lines of 'alt-1, alt-2' or summat, but it is not to be :////


edit: ctrl-tab no workies either

 

[dysfunction]

You could open them all by opening Word 5 times and then Alt-Tab them that way...

 

[WPKenny]

They're listed under "window" so all you do is Alt-W and press whichever nuber window you want.

 

[Tom]

Could you not make a macro to do that?

 

[~Lazarus~]

TdC,

What Os are you using.

Im using Win2k and I can use Alt-Tab to switch between different word documents that are open.

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by dysfunction
You could open them all by opening Word 5 times and then Alt-Tab them that way...

this seems the best way tbh. then I can just single-tap through the instances.


thanks all!


edit: lazman, it's nt4. BigCompany isn't all that quick on the aufgesprungen desktopwise

 

[Testin da Cable]

you can't drag a document from one instance of word to another!!! what poo did they have between their ears when they coded this pile of shite???

 

[Perplex]

TDC - CTRL F6

It's the most hideously akward 'shortcut' ever

 

[Testin da Cable]

well thanks Perplex, I knew there had to be one

and it is hideously akward. it takes two hands! what use as a shortcut? and I've managed to trash the master document ffs. I'm going home

 

[Perplex]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
well thanks Perplex, I knew there had to be one

and it is hideously akward. it takes two hands! what use as a shortcut? and I've managed to trash the master document ffs. I'm going home

heh I've always wondered if you could ahnge that shortcut somehow, as you say, it's 2-handed, hardly a shortcut

 

[Summo]

Have bigger hands, you cripples.

 

[Lester]

 

[Summo]

Jeremy Beadle's got a small cock...

 

[Testin da Cable]

I can just make it if I use my pinkie and index finger. aligning my hand so I can make it happen gives me the feeling that a) I've contracted a very obscure malady, possibly of tropical origin and b) I'm going to get RSI if I do the ctrl-f6 "shortcut" more than once per annum.

in other words it can go suck the male organ of copulation of a large farmyard animal of the Equus Caballus genus

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Just write a macro you fools

 

[Lester]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
I used to host a show in the 80's called Game For A Laugh and then Beadle's About and finally You've Been Framed. I eat minature Mars bars and they look big to me.

 

[Testin da Cable]

lester, you seem like a fine, upstanding bloke...how about a game of UT (the regular, not the poncy 'new' one) tonight?

 

[Lester]

Is this the half dutch net equivalent of asking me outside for a fight?

 

[Testin da Cable]

well....no I fight fair you see

Asking you to play ut against me is more like tranquilizing you from a distance, stamping your scrot to a bloody pulp, then filming you as you come to again

 

[mank!]

I can do CTRL + F6 with one hand!

Litte finger on ctrl, thumb on F6

 

[Testin da Cable]

hehe that you can is beside the point. a human can do lots of unlikely things, anatomically speaking...but they aren't necessarily easy or comfortable to do. a shortcut, to me, is an almost intuitive quick tap of the keys.
you're forgiven cos it's your BD though

 

[Tom]

Beadle has a withered hand. Its true!

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
hehe that you can is beside the point. a human can do lots of unlikely things, anatomically speaking...but they aren't necessarily easy or comfortable to do. a shortcut, to me, is an almost intuitive quick tap of the keys.
you're forgiven cos it's your BD though

MAKE A MACRO BITCH

Don't make me come there and do it for you.

 

[Testin da Cable]

but...let me just say doing things in windows isn't my strong suit


















in other words I haven't the foggiest how to do it

 

[Nibbler]

Originally posted by mank!
I can do CTRL + F6 with one hand!

Litte finger on ctrl, thumb on F6

wtf? that's hard.

thumb on left or right ctrl, index finger on f6, easy

 

[Perplex]

Originally posted by Nibbler


wtf? that's hard.

thumb on left or right ctrl, index finger on f6, easy

But it's not intuitive, it's not quick or rapid, it's not a shortcut - especially when frantically typing away

 

[Testin da Cable]

exactly