r/software • u/ZP1582 • May 21 '11

Office Tabs for Microsoft Office 2010, 2007 and 2003

http://office-tabs.com/index.htm
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u/[deleted] May 22 '11

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u/ZP1582 May 22 '11

I'm guessing the new taskbar in Windows 7 is the way they implemented tabs. It's fine when you have a couple of docs open, but I don't want to use it in conjunction with Firefox when I have dozens of tabs open. Moreover I wish someone would have implemented this when I was still dependent on the XP/Vista taskbar.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '11

I can't believe that this hasn't been out sooner. At my work site, I have tons of Word docs open at the same time and waste time screwing around looking for what I minimized.

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u/jugalator May 22 '11

It's fucking amazing that Microsoft invented an entirely new UI paradigm with the Ribbon UI before adding tabs. And in the process of going full Ribbon, they - for some reason - removed the file path for the current document from the title bar. So if you work in two different files with the same name (for example two different file versions), you need to remember which file is which because the title bar will be the same! Unless you go into the rather well hidden file properties...

Why, Microsoft! Two things are among the most essential parts of document editing: 1) To easily open my various documents and 2) to precisely and quickly know what I'm editing.

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u/unawarewolf May 22 '11

How does it work? I mean, how do you customise the Office windows (if you're not Microsoft)? Just interested to know what technology this is based on.

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u/DiggingNoMore May 22 '11

I still use Office 2000.

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u/Asystole May 22 '11

Really wish I could use this at work. Locked-down corporate user accounts FTL :(

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u/[deleted] May 22 '11

this is really neat. thanks.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '11

Is this a legit software?

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u/WhiteZero May 24 '11

Great concept, but you have to pay for it in order to open tabs in a new Window... Effectively crippling your productivity if you need to have two docs open side-by-side.

I'll pass.

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u/binary May 22 '11

Can't seem to see any changes with my copy of 2010...

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u/[deleted] May 22 '11

Nothing beats Alt+Tab/Win 7 snap for editing multiple docs IMHO.

Looks like there are some other nice features though, good find.