PC Win: MS Word Attachments Open Multiple Copies of Program

CAUSE

Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows normally allows for multiple documents to be open in one instance of the program. For this to occur, the documents must be opened from within the active Microsoft Word for Windows session. When documents are associated with the executable file (WINWORD.EXE), Word for Windows does not determine whether an instance of the program is running; it just opens an instance of the program executable file for that particular document. Subsequently opening other documents attached to Mail messages will result in additional instances of the program being started.

This behavior is the way Microsoft Word for Windows is designed to handle opening separate document files directly; it is not caused by the Microsoft Mail for PC Networks Windows client.