Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:10141 comp.windows.ms:10832 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cxt105 From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: give me solid facts: Word for Windows Message-ID: <91086.011415CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 06:14:15 GMT References: <1991Mar24.025913.29727@amd.com> <1991Mar24.065427.16198@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Mar26.011127.28302@amd.com> <1991Mar26.063111.3133@cs.uoregon.edu> <1991Mar26.132012.26071@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 27 In article <1991Mar26.132012.26071@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) says: >Anant Kartik Mithal writes: >> ---------------------------------------- >> | Microsoft Word is already running | >> | OK | >> ---------------------------------------- >> >> On the mac, if you double click on the (greyed) icon for Word, you get >> back to the running copy. Also, on the Mac, double clicking on a >> second word doc gets you into word with the document, with Word for >> Windows, you will get the error message. > >This is strictly a Word for Windows problem. Applications that do not >support multiple active instances are supposed to check for one already >running, and if one is found, activate that running copy and bring its >window to the top (see Microsoft Systems Journal, Dec/90 for details). I find it *terribly* ironic that a major Microsoft product fails to conform to the guidelines specified *by Microsoft* for Windows applications. ------- Christopher Tate | cxt105@psuvm.bitnet | nobody, not even the rain, cxt105@psuvm.psu.edu | has such small hands. ..!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cxt105 |