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meatwad
November 7th, 2002, 12:10 PM
I know I've seen this before. I've also fixed it before. I found the solution in MS TechNet a couple of years ago, but I can't find it now.
Whenever you open MS Word 97, it immediately minimizes itself. I think the solution was changing a Registry setting, but before a screw around with that, I figured I'd check here.
meatwad
November 7th, 2002, 12:46 PM
Fixed. Thanks anyway.
NooNoo
November 7th, 2002, 01:35 PM
You gonna tell us how? :D
Seriously, someone looking for that problem would like to know the answer!
meatwad
November 7th, 2002, 02:48 PM
The window wasn't minimizing, it had been moved off of the screen. Ctrl + Space + M let's you move it with the arrows, and then I was able to center it back on the screen. I'm a little PO'd that I didn't think of it sooner. :(
Oh well.
NooNoo
November 7th, 2002, 07:02 PM
Thanks that keyboard shortcut will be very useful the next time my kids shift things off the screen!
Snowbound67
March 23rd, 2004, 04:16 PM
Thank you for the info on this meatwad.
It told me what to look for, as I did a re-install of Office97, and it still was doing it as you described above.
I tried what you said about CTRL-SPACE-M, but it didn't seem to work. All I then did was right click on the Word97 on the Taskbar, and selected Move (I think) and moved the mouse around until I saw THE Word97 window and the mouse pointer was stuck to the Titlebar. Cool!!!
Snow