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More Tabbed Windows in Office — Work Across Screens Effortlessly

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If you often work with multiple Word documents and want to view them in separate tabbed windows across different monitors, Office Tab makes it a breeze. Simply follow the steps below.

Display Multiple Tabbed Windows in Office

Create and display a new tabbed window in Office


Display Multiple Tabbed Windows in Office

1. Please open more than one document in your Word application as shown in the screenshot below.

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2. And then right-click on one document, such as Doc 1 and choose Open in New Window command to open the document in a new tabbed document interface.

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3. The Doc 2 will be displayed in a new tabbed window as shown in the screenshot below. You can drag it to another monitor now.

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Notes:

1. This option is not available for Powerpoint.

2. This feature is only applied to the documents which are located into the computor hard disk, if the files are opened from network disk, this option will not available. You can check the file path by putting the mouse to the file tab as following screenshot shown:

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Create and display a new tabbed window in Office

If you want to create and display a new document when working with the office applications, the New in New Window option can do you a favor.

1. Right click the tab, and select New in New Window, see screenshot:

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2. And then a new document will be created and displayed in a new window as follows:

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Notes:

1. This option is not available for Powerpoint.

2. This feature is only applied to Office 2013 and later versions.

✅ Why You’ll Love It

  • Instantly expand your workspace — view different docs at the same time.
  • Move windows across monitors for better multitasking.
  • Stay organized and never lose track of open documents.

Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, Make Your Work Much Easier

  • Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
  • Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
  • Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!
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