I Can Not Open New Microsoft Word Documents As New Windows

I use MSOffice 2024 on M1 Silicon running Sequoia.

When I launch Word it gives me a blank document (I have deselected “Show document gallery when opening Word”) 

If I select “File/New Document” it creates a second blank word document in a separate window etc.

Also selecting” File/Open” I can then choose an existing file as a separate window.

Is this what you are trying to achieve or have I misunderstood it?

What version of MS Office are you using?

Where are you selecting “Prefer Tabs When Opening Documents – Always”?

Has your setup etc changed that might be stopping you doing what you wish to do?

Microsoft Word is not an Apple application and its help can be found here in Microsoft specific communities for Mac users.

Although Apple implemented Merge Windows in some of its applications that create open document tabs in the application, Microsoft has no n-tuple opened documents into tabs feature. So whether you create n-tuple new documents, or open several existing, there is no open window to tabs capability in Word.

What they have is on the Window menu, but is under Move and Resize sub-menu where you can force two open documents into halves of your screen, or other variations. If you do this, you will need to individually choose Return to Previous Size to reduce their size afterward.

I have the same results as user Need_help_give_help using Word 16.99, so our knowing your Word version is important to your getting effective help in this settings where others can neither see nor touch your computer.