04.09 Multiple Views of the Same Document

WINDOWS

Alt,W, N

MENU

Window | New Window

COMMAND

Window.NewWindow

VERSIONS

2005, 2008, 2010

CODE

vstipEnv0016

Sometimes you might want to look at a particularly large document in several different areas at the same time. For example, you might want to look at the same document on multiple monitors. This tip shows you how to make this happen.

Special Note for VB Users in Visual Studio 2010

This feature is turned off by default in VB. A lot of history and reasoning is behind this, but the long and short of it is that this was fixed for 2010 but time ran out and it wasn’t tested. So you can turn this on for VB, but you do so at your own risk. Special thanks to my friend Dustin Campbell for supplying the history ...

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