Maximise viewing window in Word and Excel by default

[whitecloud1]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I had this problem in Office X and was able to solve it:

I'm using a small 12' Powerbook and always I have to manually expand the viewing (open program) window in Word and Excel to achieve the maximum available screen view. The default is usually not reaching the bottom of the screen and I also need to move the window up to fill in the small blank space as it's floating.
I had to resort to creating macros using Visual basic and then saving those as default templates in Word and Excel.
I see that Office 2008 for mac doesn't support VB macros.
Is there a way in Office 2008 to set the viewing screen to maximized by default? Or failing this can I record a macro to do this? I've no experience with applescript.

Any advice most welcome.
John

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I had this problem in Office X and was able to solve it:

I'm using a small 12' Powerbook and always I have to manually expand the
viewing (open program) window in Word and Excel to achieve the maximum
available screen view. The default is usually not reaching the bottom of the
screen and I also need to move the window up to fill in the small blank space
as it's floating.
I had to resort to creating macros using Visual basic and then saving those as
default templates in Word and Excel.
I see that Office 2008 for mac doesn't support VB macros.
Is there a way in Office 2008 to set the viewing screen to maximized by
default? Or failing this can I record a macro to do this? I've no experience
with applescript.

Any advice most welcome.
John

You can not record macros in Office 2008. And, since Office 2008 does not
support VBA, none of your macros will work either. You can try creating an
Excel workbook and worksheet template (see Excel help for instructions), and
saving these in a window maximized condition.