Word - Office 2003 - Taskbar tabs - can't get them to work

Have you installed any new programs lately, because it sound like to you have two problems, one a Word problem and one a Win 7 problem. For the Close problem in Word, try doing a Detect & Repair: On the Word task bar, select Help Select Detect & Repair See if that helps. Do you have any third party Add-Ons? There are several that do exactly what you describe. As for the Win 7 task bar, on my system if you: Right Click on the Task bar, Select Properties A pop up window appears, In the center there is a drop down next to the heading: Taskbar Buttons: The drop down has three options: 1) Always Combine, Hide labels 2) Combine when taskbar is full 3) Never Combine I have mine set to # 1 Alwasy Combine, Hide Labels but when I mouse over the icon on the task bar, it will display all of the hidden pages. So if I have three Word docs open, it will hide all until I mouse over, then it will show all three. If this is not how yours is working, then I have no ideas. MIKE http://www.skeptic.com/

Thanks but that didn't work. Couldn't find Detect and repair..

Couldn't find Detect and repair.. OK, do it from the Control Panel Select Start Select Control Panel Select Programs Select Uninstall Program Select, but do not double click, MS Office There should appear, at the top, an option to Uninstall or Change Select Change, a popup window should appear, with three options: 1) Add or Remove features 2) Repair 3) Remove Select Repair MIKE http://www.skeptic.com/

I found out.. eventually .. after months of searching. Thanks On the Tools menu, click Options. On the View tab, click to select (or click to clear) the Windows in Taskbar check box, and then click OK.