Microsoft Office
MS Word - each document opens in a new window, so you can put a window on each of your two screens and then cut-and-paste between them.

MS Excel - each document opens by default as a new pane inside the existing Excel window, so you can't EASILY put each spreadsheet on a different screen and cut-and-paste!

Bastards!
( Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 0:13, 8 replies)

PowerPoint opens in the same window and there is no way to separate them. It pisses me off.
(samwisethesick, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 8:15, closed)

^
Fuck powerpoint up the blowhole
( Richard Shitheels, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 11:46, closed)

This particular bit of geekfuckery does get my first-world goat.
When I'm proofreading two documents there's no hassle-free way of lining them up nicely side-by-side like you can in Word.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 9:33, closed)

On Office 2003 you can do this:
Window > Compare side by side with...
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:06, closed)

And
Excel refuses to open two documents with the same name unless you force it to another session, which is a pain in the arse if you're a coder need to compare two versions of the same macro-filled report.

And don't get me started on those fucking ribbons.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:34, closed)

Somehow my boss has convinced himself that the whole 'ribbon' thing is Apple's fault.
When I can bring myself to care enough to ask for an explanation, I get this semi-coherant rant about Microsoft trying to make their newer operating systems look more like OS X.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 12:00, closed)

*coherent

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 15:50, closed)

office 2010
Lets you open pptxs and xlsxs in separate windows.

If you don't have 2010, just open excel twice.

You're welcome.
( admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 18:27, closed)