How do you stop Office Help from resizing Office application windo

[Andy Knight]

It's done this since Office 2000 and it's still in Office 2003. You'd think
MS would have done away with this by now or made an option that is easy to
find and set.

When a user requests help inside an office application (Word, Excel, etc.)
the Office application window is pushed to the left side of the screen and
the help window "conveniently" resizes over the right side of the screen. Is
there a setting somewhere that just pops up the help window less intrusively?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Andy,

You can drag the Help window away from the document screen and
Office should remember the last used location.

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It's done this since Office 2000 and it's still in Office 2003. You'd think
MS would have done away with this by now or made an option that is easy to
find and set.

When a user requests help inside an office application (Word, Excel, etc.)
the Office application window is pushed to the left side of the screen and
the help window "conveniently" resizes over the right side of the screen. Is
there a setting somewhere that just pops up the help window less intrusively? >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[gbsd86]

It semi-remembers. The help window always pushes the application window to
the left until it's in the middle of the answer wizard tab. I do a lot of
work in the VBA editor and with long strings of code I need the editor in
full screen. It's a real drag resizing it every time I go back to the help
window. Why doesn't help follow the Windows standard, just overlaying the
windows?

 

[gbsd86]

To annoyed to think clearly before (misery loves company?). If you drag the
help window to the left side of the screen, put the application on the right,
then it works normally. It even rememebers to start up that way after shut
down and restart of the application.