Show open documents as separate windows on the taskbar

To get quick navigation in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, do the following:

Choose Tools, Options. Click the View tab, make sure that Windows in Taskbar is checked, and click OK.
In Adobe Acrobat or Reader, choose Edit, Preferences, and select General on the left.
Check Show doc

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Note: In Office apps, this changes the Alt-F4 keyboard shortcut so that it closes only the current document, not the whole application (unless only one document is open). But in Acrobat, Alt-F4 still closes the program and all open documents in one fell swoop.

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