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Old 08-25-2015, 05:16 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
Hi,

DiapDealer is indeed correct. This is standard behaviour on a Mac. This exact same thing happens in all of the Office products for Mac (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) etc. and in most other more complex programs. Both windows are actually being controlled by the same single app and so two copies of the executable are NOT in memory at the same time.

Welcome to using a Mac!

KevinH
Kevin, I read nzhpy3's post as saying - when one file is opened with Sigil or Sigil is started with no file, then they always get two instances of Sigil - the other instance is always empty and must be closed separately. That seems a bit skew-whiff to me - but I'm not a regular OSX user.

For Windows there's at least one free 3rd party tool that can represent multiple instances of the same program in an icon stack with the option to close all instances. Maybe there's something similar for OS/X - if its not built-in.

BTW: there's an add-on for MS Office that does MDI via a tabbed interface, I couldn't live without it, it may work on MS Office for OS/X. I loathe taskbar clutter.

BR
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