Office Tab is a great utility for Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010. It enables to view, edit and manage multiple documents in one instance of the Office application just like a modern Web browser where users can work in several documents at the same time switching easily between them.
This utility integrates as an add-in in the selected Office applications when installing. It is available for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. This is a great program since it is annoying having to work with multiple instances of the same office application. This way anyone using this add-in will manage multiple presentations, workbooks and text documents at a glance.
A new feature of this version is its compatibility with Microsoft's new Office 2010, as well as the options to control the workbooks, documents and presentations from the tab, where users can lock, close tabs, save and close all and save all.
Other new features concern the looks and action settings. The option center can change settings such as enabling/disabling the tab and the shortcuts, displaying the tab bar above / below / left / right position, choosing the tab style and customizing colors.
On the downside it would have been nice that it could also integrate with MS Visio and MS Project, but aside that it really is a great aid when working with several documents.
v8.0 [Nov 3, 2011]
Favorites Group feature – it bring you a group concept to manage your documents, you can easily open a group of documents, close a group of documents and you can also drag and drop the document between groups for organizing your favorites group.
Add the current activated tab (the document) into a favorite group. Click “Add to Favorites” will display the “Add a Favorite” dialog box. In this dialog box, you can give your document a new name in the group, create a new group or choose a group you want the document to be grouped in.
Organize your favorites. Click “Organize Favorites” will display the “Organize Favorites” dialog box. In this dialog box, you can Add/Delete a group, delete a favorite item from a group or drag and drop a favorite item between groups. You can also rename the favorites group or the favorite item.
he previous 9 favorite groups will be displayed in the Ribbon with a drop-down menu. The drop-down menu combines “Add to this group”, “Open this group”, “Close this group” and “Save this group” command item.
When you have more than 9 favorite groups, the extra favorite groups will be displayed in the “More Favorites”.
”Add to this group” command item: this command will save the current activated tab (the document) into this favorite group. If the document has not been saved yet, this command will require you to save the document first.
This area displays the favorite items of the group. If you click on the single favorite item, it will open the document, but if the document does not exist anymore, you will be asked to delete the empty favorite item or not.
”Open this group” command item: this command will open all the documents of this group.
”Close this group” command item: this command will close all the opened documents of this group.
”Save this group” command item: this command will save all the documents of this group. For example, if the documents of this group have been modified and you want to save all of them, and “Save this group” is designed for you.
The favorites group also has been embodied in the context menu of tab and tab bar. Right click on a tab or tab bar to access the context menu.
New version has embodied all the options which are originally displayed in the Backstage into Ribbon within “Office Tab” tab. This will bring you convenience to Show/Hide the tab bar and access the Options Center.
New version adds the following languages: Simplified Chinese, English, French, German, Danish, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch and Belarusian.
