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(Which I have had the misfortune to experience several times in my life.) You may think WTF is a few inches of extra movement to get to the taskbar to open a document? But the difference is a that few inches adds up to miles worth of difference through the years and those miles worth of unneeded repetitive movements can lead to serious cases of RSI. bizarrely I can use Tabs with MS's online version of Office, but not with the desktop version. My experience when I have 20 or 30 word, or powerpoint documents open is that the travel time to the taskbar is often longer than if I could use tabs. Ask them to give up their properly integrated and elegantly executed tabbed browsing interface now however and go back to the old taskbar only way of doing things and I'm sure you would hear them all sing a different tune.
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Yeah, like I said, all the arguments presented by the naysayers (of which there are always a majority on Neowin) could have been made for any browser too, pre-Firefox. Personally I'd like to have seen a UI that i could tab word, outlook 2010 into tabs as I often copy and paste for my research. So other people have clearly at least thought about it! There is a 3rd party add on that enables this feature I believe, but it seems to be quite buggy and unstable. Please MS steal this idea! If anyone has any influence with them and wants to steal it instead, please feel free! Why do it? Because it makes life a little bit simpler is why! But the same argument could be made for not introducing tabs in Web Browsers.
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I know there's Flip 3D and probably a keyboard shortcut. I'm a college student and I frequently have several documents open at the same time, it's frustrating to not just quickly flip between them like I can with my browser. I know you can have tabs in Excel, kind of, but it would be nice if MS stole the idea of tabs, like they did with IE from Firefox and built this into all of their office software. Could be wrong, old age, bad memory, too lazy to search and all that. could of swore it was IE via a third party shell for IE called NetCaptor, late '90s, then Opera a couple years later.
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I'm not 100% positive, but reasonably sure Firefox wasn't the first one with a tabbed browser. "Office Tabs?" Not positive, didn't pay much attention to it, seems happy with it with Office 2010 anyway. You mentioned addons, there's a couple that do that, don't use them myself, my neighbor does though, don't recall the one he uses giving him problems. For me it doesn't matter if I'm clicking above the document or underneath it, it's still one click or one keypress, personally don't see adding another place to click really boosting my productivity. Can already quickly flip between them now with either a keystroke or a single click on the taskbar, complete with previews, there's also window list on the ribbon too. Just my own preference of course, but personally haven't missed them. Hi, is it just me, or does not having tabs in most Microsoft Office products, including Word and PowerPoint etc a bit primitive?