Why will Word 2003 not open to full screen?

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Dagwood

Word 2003 was working fine on my computer. Then one day, it began to only
open to the Menu Bar. When I click on the Menu Bar Button, which should open
it to full screen, the button seem flies to the left off the screen. When I
click again, it returns from the left to the button, but never opens.

Have deleted program and re-installed and have compared all data I can
access with that on another computer with Word 2003. Can't find any
differences.
 
D

Dagwood

Dagwood said:
Word 2003 was working fine on my computer. Then one day, it began to only
open to the Menu Bar. When I click on the Menu Bar Button, which should open
it to full screen, the button seem flies to the left off the screen. When I
click again, it returns from the left to the button, but never opens.

Have deleted program and re-installed and have compared all data I can
access with that on another computer with Word 2003. Can't find any
differences.
Click to expand...

Anne,

Worked like a charm! Can't imagine why it didn't work when I removed and
re-installed Word 2003. Must have been something hanging over from Microsoft
Office, as I didn't remove the whole suite.

Dagwood
 
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Beth Melton

Personally I don't recommend someone completely 'dump' the Word key in
the Registry.

Recreating the entire Word branch in the Registry results in losing
all personal preferences, to name a few: custom label definitions,
settings for printing envelopes, macro security, and perhaps a few
Registry values needed for various security patches depending on which
ones that have been installed for Word.

This is not only unnecessary but the security aspect alone is more
than enough reason for why this is bad advice. Using a 'brute force'
approach to correcting issue may indeed accomplish the end result but
it can also result in additional damage.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
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Beth Melton

Dagwood said:
Anne,

Worked like a charm! Can't imagine why it didn't work when I
removed and
re-installed Word 2003. Must have been something hanging over from
Microsoft
Office, as I didn't remove the whole suite.
Click to expand...

Cutting off one's finger to remove a splinter is guaranteed to remove
the splinter too!! See my reply to Anne for why this wasn't the best
method to use to correct the issue.

Here's all you needed to do:

- Open another window, right-click an empty area of the Taskbar and
select "Cascade"

Or:

- Right-click the Word task and click "Restore" if necessary
- Right-click again and select "Move"
- Use one of the arrow keys on the keyboard to "lock in" the move
command
- Use your mouse and see if you can move it back to the Desktop

The location of the Word application window is stored in the Registry
so if you *did* need to recreate a Registry key all you needed to
recreate was the but only the Word/Data key.

If you renamed the Word key then I recommend you exit Word and Outlook
if using Word as your email editor, delete the newly created key and
rename the old one back.

Then either use one of the above resolutions or recreate is the
following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Data

If you want to be precise, all you really need to recreate is the
Settings value found in the Data key.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
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