Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
have one document but split into several sections?

I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.

Thanks.

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Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
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> Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
> have one document but split into several sections?
>
> I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.
>
> Thanks.

There are two options in Word you may possibly have missed. On the View tab in
the ribbon, within the "Window" group, there are options: Split (introduces
separate independent vertical scrolling regions), New Window (which duplicates
the present window in a new instance, so you can Alt-Tab between them) and
"View Side by Side" which arranges the original and New window,um, side by
side. Need more than that?

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On 04/10/2021 16:25, Philip Herlihy wrote:
> In article <xn0n3qidrpc87s501z@news.individual.net>, jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk
> says...
>>
>> Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
>> have one document but split into several sections?
>>
>> I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> There are two options in Word you may possibly have missed. On the View tab in
> the ribbon, within the "Window" group, there are options: Split (introduces
> separate independent vertical scrolling regions), New Window (which duplicates
> the present window in a new instance, so you can Alt-Tab between them) and
> "View Side by Side" which arranges the original and New window,um, side by
> side. Need more than that?
>

there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with
links to other Word documents (sub-documents. You can open the
sub-documents separately. But they come together in the master to allow
x-refs etc.

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Robin
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:52:46 +0100, Robin wrote:

> there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with
> links to other Word documents (sub-documents.

"A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about
to be corrupt." (from wordmvp.com, and matching my experience).

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Henry Law n e w s @ l a w s h o u s e . o r g
Manchester, England

On 04/10/2021 15:52, Jeff Gaines wrote:
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> Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
> have one document but split into several sections?
>
> I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.
>
> Thanks.
>
You can have the same document open in several instances of Word at the
same time. All but one will be read-only, so you can (for example) copy
and paste stuff into the "live" one.

On 04/10/2021 22:02, Henry Law wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:52:46 +0100, Robin wrote:
>
>> there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with
>> links to other Word documents (sub-documents.
>
> "A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about
> to be corrupt." (from wordmvp.com, and matching my experience).
>

I know they have a bad reputation. All I can say is that I used them at
work for several years during which we authored and published many
thousands of pages.

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Robin
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Robin wrote:

> Henry Law wrote:
>
>> Robin wrote:
>>
>>> there's also the option of a master document: in summary that's one with
>>> links to other Word documents (sub-documents.
>>
>> "A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about
>> to be corrupt." (from wordmvp.com, and matching my experience).
>
> I know they have a bad reputation.

Almost as bad as shared-workbooks in Excel, thankfully with 365 there's now
collaborative editing of word and excel files that are stored in the cloud.

On 05/10/2021 09:06, Andy Burns wrote:

> thankfully with 365 there's now collaborative editing of word and excel
> files that are stored in the cloud

Is 365 different from/better than collaboration in 2016/2019 using
OneDrive?

Full disclosure: I don't intend to buy 365 even if it is better. Me
pension don't stretch that far.

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Robin
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On 04/10/2021 15:52, Jeff Gaines wrote:
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> Anybody come across a Word Processor that has tabs like Excel so I can
> have one document but split into several sections?
>
> I want to be able to quickly switch between tabs to look at different data.

In Word, open the navigation pane?
Gives you a clickable jump table of headings on the left.

Can be used together with split windows / view side by side.

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Adrian C