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    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 4 14:52:36 2021
    Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
    have one document but split into several sections?

    I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.

    Thanks.

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    Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
    That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them? (President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the telephone)

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  • From Robin@21:1/5 to Philip Herlihy on Mon Oct 4 16:52:46 2021
    On 04/10/2021 16:25, Philip Herlihy wrote:
    In article <xn0n3qidrpc87s501z@news.individual.net>, jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk
    says...

    Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
    have one document but split into several sections?

    I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data. >>
    Thanks.

    There are two options in Word you may possibly have missed. On the View tab in
    the ribbon, within the "Window" group, there are options: Split (introduces separate independent vertical scrolling regions), New Window (which duplicates
    the present window in a new instance, so you can Alt-Tab between them) and "View Side by Side" which arranges the original and New window,um, side by side. Need more than that?


    there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with
    links to other Word documents (sub-documents. You can open the
    sub-documents separately. But they come together in the master to allow
    x-refs etc.

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  • From Philip Herlihy@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 4 16:25:42 2021
    In article <xn0n3qidrpc87s501z@news.individual.net>, jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk says...

    Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
    have one document but split into several sections?

    I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.

    Thanks.

    There are two options in Word you may possibly have missed. On the View tab in the ribbon, within the "Window" group, there are options: Split (introduces separate independent vertical scrolling regions), New Window (which duplicates the present window in a new instance, so you can Alt-Tab between them) and "View Side by Side" which arranges the original and New window,um, side by side. Need more than that?

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    Phil, London

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  • From Henry Law@21:1/5 to Robin on Mon Oct 4 16:02:20 2021
    On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:52:46 +0100, Robin wrote:

    there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with links to other Word documents (sub-documents.

    "A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about
    to be corrupt." (from wordmvp.com, and matching my experience).

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    Henry Law n e w s @ l a w s h o u s e . o r g
    Manchester, England

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  • From newshound@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Mon Oct 4 22:26:02 2021
    On 04/10/2021 15:52, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
    have one document but split into several sections?

    I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.

    Thanks.

    You can have the same document open in several instances of Word at the
    same time. All but one will be read-only, so you can (for example) copy
    and paste stuff into the "live" one.

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  • From Robin@21:1/5 to Henry Law on Tue Oct 5 08:14:48 2021
    On 04/10/2021 22:02, Henry Law wrote:
    On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:52:46 +0100, Robin wrote:

    there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with
    links to other Word documents (sub-documents.

    "A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about
    to be corrupt." (from wordmvp.com, and matching my experience).


    I know they have a bad reputation. All I can say is that I used them at
    work for several years during which we authored and published many
    thousands of pages.

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    Robin
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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Robin on Tue Oct 5 09:06:39 2021
    Robin wrote:

    Henry Law wrote:

    Robin wrote:

    there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with >>> links to other Word documents (sub-documents.

    "A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about
    to be corrupt." (from wordmvp.com, and matching my experience).

    I know they have a bad reputation.

    Almost as bad as shared-workbooks in Excel, thankfully with 365 there's now collaborative editing of word and excel files that are stored in the cloud.

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  • From Robin@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Tue Oct 5 09:55:03 2021
    On 05/10/2021 09:06, Andy Burns wrote:

    thankfully with 365 there's now collaborative editing of word and excel
    files that are stored in the cloud

    Is 365 different from/better than collaboration in 2016/2019 using
    OneDrive?

    Full disclosure: I don't intend to buy 365 even if it is better. Me
    pension don't stretch that far.

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Tue Oct 5 10:23:06 2021
    On 04/10/2021 15:52, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
    have one document but split into several sections?

    I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.

    In Word, open the navigation pane?
    Gives you a clickable jump table of headings on the left.

    Can be used together with split windows / view side by side.

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    Adrian C

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