WD2000: Arranging All Windows Closes Full Screen View

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

If you view a document in full screen view and want to view multiple documents at the same time, when you click Arrange All on the Window menu, all the open document windows change to a non-full screen view (for example, print layout, normal, Web layout, or outline view).

NOTE: In earlier versions of Microsoft Word, if you view a document in full screen view and you click Arrange All on the Window menu, all open document windows are displayed in full screen view.

CAUSE

In versions of Word prior to Word 2000, the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) was used, which allowed for the arranging of all windows while remaining in full screen view. Beginning with Word 2000, the Single Document Interface (SDI) replaces the MDI. Because each SDI document is its own window, it is impossible to view more than one SDI document at a time in full screen view.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: fullscreen full-screen

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: May 13, 1999