Monitors are getting large. The other day I was shopping and played with a monitor that could display six letter size pages in Word 2007, at the same time, legibly. Nice.  

While six pages at the same time may be a bit extreme, viewing two pages of a document or two documents side-by-side, now that's handy. So handy that it's pretty common to see information workers with a "dual-monitor" setup to enable these and similar scenarios.

In fact, a survey by Jon Peddie Research noted that extra digital desktop real-estate provides a quantifiable increase in productivity.

While we have yet to add a "Miracle" tab with either a "Make My Monitor Bigger" or "Make a New Monitor" button, Word 2007 does provide a way for single monitor users to approximate dual-monitor-esque goodness with the click of a button in Word 2007:

One Document, Two Pages:

Easy, simple, and fun (?)…Click on the View tab, Click on the Two Pages button

Two Documents, One Page:

Open both documents, click on the View tab, click on the View Side by Side button.

This provides the following additional goodness:

• equally distributing the two Word windows across your screen
• synchronize zoom
• synchronize scrolling

Two Documents, Two Pages:

For those that like to push the envelope, have superhuman vision, or the aforementioned uber-monitor. Open both documents, click on the View tab, click on the View Side by Side button, click on the Two Pages button.

-Jonathan