I feel stupid -- How do I ... (Office 2004 / Mac)

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get rid of the Help window in Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac?

I've been using MS-DOS since v1.0, MS Windows since v1.0, and Word, etc.
since they were born, so you'd think I could figure this out.

In Word (or any other Office app), when I click on Help -> Word Help, a nice
little window scrolls down from the menu bar. It can't be moved, there is no
window frame to speak of so the OS-provided buttons aren't present, and
there's no "Close", "Exit", "Done", etc button within the window contents nor
as menu items in Word's menus. Neither Cmd-W nor Esc do anything useful.

Of course, the help contents themselves don't tell one how to close the
window.

Given the obviousness of this problem, it seems to me that I may be "lucky"
in having this problem. The only thing out of the ordinary about this Mac is
that I sometimes run with two monitors -- the LCD built into the Powerbook
and an attached CRT.

Any ideas?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For Office:Mac questions you may want to also post
in the newsgroups specific to that platform with Office (link below)

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get rid of the Help window in Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac?

I've been using MS-DOS since v1.0, MS Windows since v1.0, and Word, etc.
since they were born, so you'd think I could figure this out.

In Word (or any other Office app), when I click on Help -> Word Help, a nice
little window scrolls down from the menu bar. It can't be moved, there is no
window frame to speak of so the OS-provided buttons aren't present, and
there's no "Close", "Exit", "Done", etc button within the window contents nor
as menu items in Word's menus. Neither Cmd-W nor Esc do anything useful.

Of course, the help contents themselves don't tell one how to close the
window.

Given the obviousness of this problem, it seems to me that I may be "lucky"
in having this problem. The only thing out of the ordinary about this Mac is
that I sometimes run with two monitors -- the LCD built into the Powerbook
and an attached CRT.

Any ideas? >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Microsoft Office:Mac newsgroups:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.mac.office
or
http://microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups

Microsoft Office:Mac products and updates
http://microsoft.com/mac

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

get rid of the Help window in Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac?

I've been using MS-DOS since v1.0, MS Windows since v1.0, and Word,
etc. since they were born, so you'd think I could figure this out.

In Word (or any other Office app), when I click on Help -> Word Help,
a nice little window scrolls down from the menu bar. It can't be
moved, there is no window frame to speak of so the OS-provided
buttons aren't present, and there's no "Close", "Exit", "Done", etc
button within the window contents nor as menu items in Word's menus.
Neither Cmd-W nor Esc do anything useful.

Of course, the help contents themselves don't tell one how to close
the window.

Given the obviousness of this problem, it seems to me that I may be
"lucky" in having this problem. The only thing out of the ordinary
about this Mac is that I sometimes run with two monitors -- the LCD
built into the Powerbook and an attached CRT.

Any ideas?

Yes, post to the correct group. This group is for Office for Windows, for
Mac Office, please repost to microsoft.public.mac.office.