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Microshaft has QA engineers? Oh right, they just call them "customers".
In a message dated 12/31/01 5:13:35 PM Pacific Standard Time,
heart1st@xxxxxxxx writes:
> I can hear the poor QA Engineer on msw2000 whose arguments
> fell on deaf ears. Instead, ms actually had to publish the
> software to believe that poor person.
>
> Judy
>
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, JerryWar wrote:
>
> #Amazing, absolutely correct. I never noticed that before.
> #
> #Jerry
> #
> #> -----Original Message-----
> #> From: J. Rodney Grisham [mailto:Rod.Grisham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> #> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 6:58 PM
> #> To: Chris Cheatham
> #> Cc: Omega List
> #> Subject: Re: off topic - ms word
> #>
> #>
> #> Chris Cheatham wrote:
> #>
> #> > This is probably a dumb question...when I open multiple
> #> files at the same
> #> > time in ms word 2000, each file gets opened in a separate
> #> copy of word,
> #> > instead of as a window in one copy like it used to be.
> #>
> #> Sort of a technicality, but it is only one instance of Word. It's
> #> just that every doc. gets its own window.
> #>
> #> > With a dozen files
> #> > open it is a total pain. Anyone know if there is a way to fix this?
> #>
> #> There is no way in 2000; it is a Single Document Interface (SDI)
> #> program only. MSW 2002 offers the option of either SDI or MDI
> #> - M for multiple.
> #>
> #> Below there is a blurb from the web.
> #>
> #> Rod
> #>
> #> +++++++++++++++++
> #>
> #> When Microsoft introduced Office 2000, one of the more controversial
> #> features was that Word and Excel were changed from Multiple Document
> #> Interface (MDI) applications, where each document window was
> #> contained inside the parent application window, to Single Document
> #> Interface (SDI) applications, where each document occupied its own
> #> window. A side effect of an SDI application is that each document
> #> also gets its own button on the Windows taskbar, and you can easily
> #> switch between documents using the standard ALT+TAB key combination.
> #> However, some users found this new interface to be problematic,
> #> because multiple Word documents could quickly clutter the taskbar.
> #> In Word 2002, you can now optionally choose to use MDI mode again
> #> if you're so inclined.
> #>
> #
> #
>
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