Office should check viewable area for window positions - and fix!

[brettlyman]

When I use Office in a dual-monitor setup, drag a Word document window to the
second monitor, save and close, Office saves the last position of the window.
However, when I take my laptop home and don't have a dual-monitor setup, open
that Word document, I can't see it! Why? Office placed it outside my viewable
area on a second screen that doesn't exist. However, if the Word document is
open when I switch to single-monitor mode, then it will reposition and then I
can close it, saving the position in the right place. In my opinion, however,
when Office is placing the window when opening a document, it should CHECK TO
MAKE SURE THE WINDOW POSITION WILL BE WITHIN THE CURRENT VIEWABLE AREA. When
it comes up off-screen, there is no way to retrieve it unless I connect to a
second monitor, enable it, and drag the Word document to my main screen.

Sure, I could manually drag the window to my main screen before closing the
document...but should I have to?

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After furious head scratching, brettlyman asked:

| When I use Office in a dual-monitor setup, drag a Word document
| window to the second monitor, save and close, Office saves the last
| position of the window. However, when I take my laptop home and don't
| have a dual-monitor setup, open that Word document, I can't see it!
| Why? Office placed it outside my viewable area on a second screen
| that doesn't exist. However, if the Word document is open when I
| switch to single-monitor mode, then it will reposition and then I can
| close it, saving the position in the right place. In my opinion,
| however, when Office is placing the window when opening a document,
| it should CHECK TO MAKE SURE THE WINDOW POSITION WILL BE WITHIN THE
| CURRENT VIEWABLE AREA. When it comes up off-screen, there is no way
| to retrieve it unless I connect to a second monitor, enable it, and
| drag the Word document to my main screen.
|
| Sure, I could manually drag the window to my main screen before
| closing the document...but should I have to?
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
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[Bob I]

Learn to use the "Move" provided on the Taskbar.

 

[brettlyman]

Well, whaddayaknow.....it works!

Thanks for the suggestion. It still seems odd, however, that it would bring
the window up on a screen that doesn't exist. It should be an easy check for
the software to do. And it's not just Office, other applications that
remember window positions do it as well (like Trillian). I guess they just
haven't considered the situation where the viewable area of the screen may
change and their window may appear out of view.

Thanks again, and I will take your advice and use the "Move" option.

 

[Bob I]

The location of a window can be "anywhere", and people seem to get
pretty cranky when "Windows" moves their windows. So the system allows
the user to move them pretty much at will, without interfering.