Open Office 2

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Actually, Ajay, this behaviour is NOT consistent across all Microsoft
> applications. If you used the "X" button at the top right-hand corner of
> the window to close files, in MSWord2000, you will close the file, but
> NOT the application. If you used it in Excel, it closes everything.
> Powerpoint does the same thing. If you closed Outlook, it will still
> leave open message windows open.

Just checked in Office 2000 on XP:

When you have multiple documents open in Excel they all share the same
real estate on the screen (unlike Excel on Win2K) - you can switch
different documents by using the Window menu or the task bar. In this case
there are TWO close buttons on the top-left. The larger one on the
top-right is like a "master" close button and will close all documents and
the application too. Under that and slightly indented is a smaller close
button which only closes the current document.

If you imagine that there are several document windows stacked on top of
each other this kind of makes sense since the smaller close button
corresponds to the window close button when you have separate windows for
documents.

BTW, on a Mac, since documents pretty much always have separate windows,
the behavior is consistent across all apps. I find it ironic that
Office is *more* consistent on a Mac ;-)


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