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Opening files in different window
Hi,
I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate. When i installed Visio 2003 again, it all works fine, but when i go to open multiple visio files it opens them in the same window, nad not in their separate windows in the task bar. It doesn't group them like that grouping feature windows has, but it pretty much minimises one of the files behind the other. The only way for me to change between files is by going to the "Window" menu in Visio, and then selecting the other file. Can someone help me open files in different windows please. Cheers LA |
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:07:00 -0700, LA
wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate. When i installed Visio 2003 again, it all works fine, but when i go to open multiple visio files it opens them in the same window, nad not in their separate windows in the task bar. It doesn't group them like that grouping feature windows has, but it pretty much minimises one of the files behind the other. The only way for me to change between files is by going to the "Window" menu in Visio, and then selecting the other file. What you are seeing now is the correct manner of showing Visio windows. There will be a registry setting that determines whether Visio runs as a single instance, but it;s probably in the registry class information and I don't want to start touching that. However, you can the same behaviour by holding the Shift key when starting Visio. But any settings made and saved by one instance of Visio may be overwritten by the other one. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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"Paul Herber" wrote:
What you are seeing now is the correct manner of showing Visio windows. There will be a registry setting that determines whether Visio runs as a single instance, but it;s probably in the registry class information and I don't want to start touching that. However, you can the same behaviour by holding the Shift key when starting Visio. But any settings made and saved by one instance of Visio may be overwritten by the other one. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ Hi Paul, Thanks for the hint. I went into regedit and found the registry for "SingleInstanceFileOpen" This was set to a value of 1, assuming it means it was set to open in one instance. I change the value to 0, and it now opens files in their own instances. This shouldn't have any problems should it? I've been using it for a few hours and had no problems with it. Cheers LA |
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:40:01 -0700, LA
wrote: "Paul Herber" wrote: What you are seeing now is the correct manner of showing Visio windows. There will be a registry setting that determines whether Visio runs as a single instance, but it;s probably in the registry class information and I don't want to start touching that. However, you can the same behaviour by holding the Shift key when starting Visio. But any settings made and saved by one instance of Visio may be overwritten by the other one. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ Hi Paul, Thanks for the hint. I went into regedit and found the registry for "SingleInstanceFileOpen" I can't find any entry like that, not even "SingleInstance" within a string. What is the whole registry key you found? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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"Paul Herber" wrote: I can't find any entry like that, not even "SingleInstance" within a string. What is the whole registry key you found? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ Sorry I meant to copy the key but forgot, In any case here it is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\V isio\Application ... in there there was the one named "SingleInstanceFileOpen". |
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:52:00 -0700, LA
wrote: "Paul Herber" wrote: I can't find any entry like that, not even "SingleInstance" within a string. What is the whole registry key you found? Sorry I meant to copy the key but forgot, In any case here it is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\ Visio\Application ... in there there was the one named "SingleInstanceFileOpen". So it does. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298739 As I said though, if you have two open instances, when closing them any settings saved by the first one will be overwritten by the seconds, most recently used files, any other settings etc. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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