Working with multiple open documents in Microsoft Office applications like Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel is not as comfortable as it can be. The documents are all placed in the same interface with no straightforward way to switch between documents easily (the keyboard shortcut Alt Number will do the trick but one has to know the number of documents to use it effectively and it is limited to a maximum of nice documents).
Office Tabs brings a possible solution in forms of a tabbed browsing interface for Microsoft Office. The software program supports Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint and will display a toolbar beneath the ribbon interface in Office 2007 that is displaying all open documents. A double-click will quickly open a new document and a click on existing tabs will display that document in the foreground.
The tabbed interfaces for the three Microsoft Office products can be configured individually. This includes disabling the tabbed interface in an Office module, configuring the layout (colors, appearance and position) and shortcuts.
Custom Tabs is compatible with Microsoft Office 2003 and 2008 on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can be downloaded from the Chinese homepage of the developer.
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It sounded like such an excellent idea. Too bad it doesn’t work well for me. It uses 100% of one of my CPU cores while only having a blank document open. After a while Word becomes unresponsive and I have to Ctrl + Alt + Del to shut Word down. Using XP Pro SP3 (Dutch) and Office 2007 (Dutch).
Doesn’t work with my Win 7. Prevented Office from closing and slowed everything.
Too bad, because it’s a good idea
Not true, I have a HP system running Windows 7 (32Bit) Ultimate and it works great, not problems installing or running. Try reinstalling.
Works perfectly on my Win 7 RC x64
Works well on Win7 x64
I must be missing something. In my Office 2007, multiple documents open in new windows. Alt-tab switches among them. In Office 2003, use Ctrl-F6 to switch among open docs.
that something Microsoft need to incorporate to next version of Office since i already see this feature long time on AbiWord or KingSoft Office (Chinese office 2003 clone)
Not working with PowerPoint 2007 under XP Professional :(
Word/Excel now working with Tabs :)
where can i find the effects on powerpoint 2007?
pllzzz tll me
Excel addin working great in 2003.
very please i downloaded word tab to get the same Joy in word, but looks like Word tab is not working too bad for word
My specs for information.
HP dv2000t Laptop
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Core 2 Duo T9300 2.50 GHz
Office 2007 12.0.4518.1014
installation went flawlessly. Using it now.
No issues for me with CPU or closing.