How to prevent all windows closing when closing an active window

Started by fyodorz, May 14, 2014, 07:16:59 PM

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fyodorz

Hello all.
I'm a newbie in this forum and unsuccessfully tried to find an answer to this question 
I work with both Excel and Visio and spend most time in Excel. There if I close an active Excel window, it closes only it. In Visio I observe an opposite behavior - clicking to the top right "cross" closes ALL Visio windows. This is very inconvenient and makes me crazy :-X. Do you know how to prevent Visio from closing all windows?

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Paul Herber

That's normal operation for a multi-window application. The top-most X closes the whole application, the Xs on a window close just that window. It's Excel's operation that is incorrect, both the individual window and top-right Xs do the same operation viz. they just close the current window.

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fyodorz

Unfortunately not... Word, Powerpoint behave as Excel. But it looks like there are no ways to change this behavior.

Yacine

I do agree with Paul, that this his how such applications were meant to work.
Although Excel's behaviour is nice, it's a novelty in the way applications behave.
It could get to a standard, but definitely is not yet.
Visio has always been a few steps back from it's bigger office family members.
Guess you will just need to accept it.
Cheers,
Yacine
Yacine