Nobody told me about this.

[IronWing]

With Win 7 the default behavior of the taskbar is to obscure open documents of a similar sort by stacking them all up under a single program icon. I figured this was just one more way MS was attempting to hide the functionality of the file system from users. This morning, after using Win 7 for three years or so, I discovered I could change this behavior to have the taskbar show the filenames in separate tabs, just as god intended. Woot!

I wonder what that Start button is for?

 

[edro]

That was one of the first modifications I made to Win7, after disabling UAC.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I love that feature, and had been using it under Linux for years before Windows 7 introduced it.

 

[swanysto]

I kind of like the stack, maybe it is cause I have gotten used to it, and it appears cleaner to me.

 

[gorcorps]

Heh, there's a lot of useful tools they build into windows over the years but users never find it on their own because they don't go through those "welcome" type of tutorials. There's still a few people around the office that didn't know about the snipping tool until I said something.

 

[Kaido]

That was one of the first modifications I made to Win7, after disabling UAC.

Kill UAC, disable offline files & action center, set to small icons & ungroup, and Classic theme. Back to Win2000 GUI for me :thumbsup:

 

[IronWing]

I kind of like the stack, maybe it is cause I have gotten used to it, and it appears cleaner to me.

It looks cleaner but try working among multiple spreadsheets.

 

[drebo]

It looks cleaner but try working among multiple spreadsheets.

The spreadsheet thing in Office 2007 and 2010 is another issue entirely.

Why, oh why, couldn't Microsoft let us have multiple Excel windows open at the same time.

 

[swanysto]

It looks cleaner but try working among multiple spreadsheets.

I do work with multiple spreadsheets, however, like drebo said, my issue is more with having multiple open, than it is with the dock issue.

 

[eBauer]

The spreadsheet thing in Office 2007 and 2010 is another issue entirely.

Why, oh why, couldn't Microsoft let us have multiple Excel windows open at the same time.

You can have multiple excel windows open by modifying the registry. I made a vbscript that does this automatically for every version of Office (03/07/10/13)

 

[Jaskalas]

The stack is awesome. You're really just a dinosaur.

 

[gorcorps]

It looks cleaner but try working among multiple spreadsheets.

I actually think I wouldn't hate it so much if there wasn't a delay when you hover over the group tab to see the individual windows. If it was all instant it would feel much more fluid. I wonder if that's something a reg tweak could fix.

 

[phreaqe]

You can have multiple spreadsheet open as long as they are the xlsx file types. its still not perfect but a much welcomed addition.

 

[Schfifty Five]

I don't like the stack. True it looks cleaner, but it adds extra clicks to get to the file you want.

 

[Schfifty Five]

You can have multiple spreadsheet open as long as they are the xlsx file types. its still not perfect but a much welcomed addition.

You can also have multiple instances of .xls open at once.

 

[lxskllr]

I hate having things combined like that. It adds keystrokes/time to the document selection.

 

[ISAslot]

you can open two or more excel files in different windows, you just have to open a new excel instance first, then open the next file

 

[phreaqe]

You can also have multiple instances of .xls open at once.

Right, i meant side by side on 2 different monitors. I have only been able to make that work when using xlsx files but not with the xls files.

 

[techs]

The spreadsheet thing in Office 2007 and 2010 is another issue entirely.

Why, oh why, couldn't Microsoft let us have multiple Excel windows open at the same time.

I have Office 2010 Pro and I can have more than one Excel window open. I also have the taskbar set to never combine.

 

[l0cke]

I've got it set so that it automatically goes to the last window when clicked

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16334/make-the-taskbar-buttons-switch-to-the-last-active-window-in-windows-7/

This is the default behavior in Linux, at least in Unity

 

[Tweak155]

I like the grouping myself. I generally don't have a ton of the same app open other than I.E.

 

[airdata]

Why would you disable this feature? Nobody likes a cluttered task bar.

 

[SunnyD]

Why would you disable this feature? Nobody likes a cluttered task bar.

Sure they do... those people that make their taskbar occupy nearly the bottom half of their screen LOVE a cluttered taskbar.

 

[rcpratt]

Yup, disabled that the minute I got Windows 7. I also use the small icons setting.

Also, just center-mouse-button click on Excel on the taskbar to open a separate instance of Excel and have two spreadsheets open on different monitors

 

[darkewaffle]

I always turn off the grouping, I don't like it. It took you three years to realize you could change it? lol