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.
Hi, I have my Office Tab in Win 7 without any problem. I am using the latest version Office Tab 6.50, you can go to try the latest version from here http://www.extendoffice.com/download/office-tab.html
or you can just send an email to the software publisher, he is a nice man.
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.
new version is available form http://www.officedocumenttab.com
regards
Hi,
i have installed the same but how can I inactive it? Thanks
I have office 2003 running on Windows 7- I LOVE it! it’s so nice not to have 20+ windows open- this is the coolest thing ever! oh yea, its free!
office tab 4.0 is available, go to check it out in officedocumenttab.com. if you have any suggestions and questions., i am glad you can post it in my website.
I am planning to update this add-on to compatible with office 2010 in next version.
regards
This is a 30 day trial so I am looking a freebee. This same author does have a WORD tab addin for 2010I just found I think for free (same author) but I want an Excel one…I am searching. The WORD doesn’t render right on MS 2007 but I can live with that. Why are they are not options for ths type of add on? Hard to write?
Thanks, but there is no Office Tab for Office 2008, I have asked the publisher by email. May be you have made a mistake. Office Tab can only be used for Office 2003/2007/2010.
The download link is http://www.extendoffice.com/download/office-tab.html
thx
ucmapi has released a totally new version of office tabs, which support word, excel, power-point, VISIO and project. Please download them via http://www.ucmapi.com/download.php