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Stupid Office 2004 Help
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Check the attachment. There is no cancel button that I can find. It is in all 3 apps. I've tried every Win and Mac "cancel" method I can think of. And I can't find any sort of pref that attaches windows to the menu bar. I can resize the thing, but not move or get rid of it. So it isn't just the top bar is hidden or something. It isn't listed in the Window menu.
I swear I'm not an idiot. I've only been using Macs since 1985 and Office since 1992 or so. This is the strangest thing I've seen yet.
I swear I'm not an idiot. I've only been using Macs since 1985 and Office since 1992 or so. This is the strangest thing I've seen yet.
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Not while Help is open. Excel or Word may have been at one point. I virtually never use help, I only discovered this because the Insert key is help and occasionally I hit it going for delete.
Yeah, I think the resolution thing was a smart idea because that window should have a close button in a bar above the toolbar... it does on my Mac. Can you move that window around perhaps by dragging on the lower bar to the left of the lower right corner? And if you drag it down, do you get a close button on it?
The help window's position is stored in (your home)/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/com.microsoft.Office.prefs.plist
It also contains some minor stuff like tooltip display, but overall it's harmless to move out of the way. Try moving that (to desktop, trash, whatever) and re-launch the Office apps.
It also contains some minor stuff like tooltip display, but overall it's harmless to move out of the way. Try moving that (to desktop, trash, whatever) and re-launch the Office apps.
That's a good idea! In case (it wasn't obvious), the file should be trashed while NO office apps are running. And then you can re-launch.
Thank you! I knew somebody would figure out which pref it was. That seems to have worked.
Just to make it more clear....this was not a resolution thing. The help window would come out of the menubar the same way (essentially) Apple's "Agree/Disagree" (to the license) window comes out in Installer. It slides down and is attached to the top of the Installer window.
Just to make it more clear....this was not a resolution thing. The help window would come out of the menubar the same way (essentially) Apple's "Agree/Disagree" (to the license) window comes out in Installer. It slides down and is attached to the top of the Installer window.