March 14, 2006
Same name, different places
Let me just note for posterity that this message drives me batty.
I think I remember that in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 that you could do this. Why it's not possible in later, otherwise more advanced versions, of Windows, I don't know. And it's possible in the Macintosh version of Microsoft Office. I cannot be—I know I am not—the only person in the world who regularly works—nay, tries to work— on documents with the same structure, function and thus name in related projects who would like this to be possible.
That's just really, really lazy/sloppy programming on the part of someone at Microsoft. The program ought to be identifying the documents by their full path in which case it would know that they were different documents. We used to do this sort of stuff 40 years ago when computer memory was expensive, but with current memory prices not holding that path name in memory probably saves you about a millionth of a cent.
Posted by: Dan Hill at March 14, 2006 04:12 PM