clipboard window

[Julia]

In a word document I have the clipboard window showing, in an attempt
to make the clipboard window bigger I have lost the windows top bar
behind the main mac ox window top menu bar and the bottom left hand
corner of the window is off the screen. I can't resize or even move
the clipboard window, how can I reset it to its default view, I have
rebooted the mac, rebooted MS Word..... no joy..... any ideas anyone
before I reinstall MS office OSX!

 

[Elliott Roper]

In a word document I have the clipboard window showing, in an attempt
to make the clipboard window bigger I have lost the windows top bar
behind the main mac ox window top menu bar and the bottom left hand
corner of the window is off the screen. I can't resize or even move
the clipboard window, how can I reset it to its default view, I have
rebooted the mac, rebooted MS Word..... no joy..... any ideas anyone
before I reinstall MS office OSX!

Hah! I had help jammed up there for so long, I forgot it had a button
bar. Try this trick:-
System preferences->displays
change the screen size to something tiny like 800*600
Everything will move about, exposing the clipboard menu bar. Drag it
somewhere else, reset the screen resolution.

When I got the help menu back it was yellowed with age ;-)

 

[Julia]

thanks very much, that's sorted the bottom bit so I resize it now and
can see the buttons, but still not able to move the box as can't see
the top (I'm on a G4 Powerbook with the res. set at the highest level)
- any more ideas?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Julia,

Try testing your prefs and Normal template. I'm not sure either will work
in this case, but it can't hurt anything.

1) Quit Word and navigate to your Normal template which should be in
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Templates/. Rename Normal to something else
(like OldNormal), then relaunch Word. If this fixes the problem but you
have customizations, etc, in OldNormal that you want to maintain, you can
use Organizer to transfer those from OldNormal to the newly-created Normal
template. Then you can trash the old renamed file. To learn how to use
Organizer, see here (use IE not Safari to view this site):
<http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/MacWordNormalTemplate.htm>

If this doesn't fix the problem, quit Word again, trash the new Normal and
rename OldNormal back to Normal.

2) To test your Preference files, quit *all* Office Applications.
Navigate to your ~/library/preferences/Microsoft folder. Rename the
Microsoft Component Preferences, Word Settings (10), and Microsoft Office
Settings (10) files. When you restart Word, these files will be recreated.
If all is well, you can trash the old files. You will have to reset some
Preferences and AutoCorrect settings.

If this doesn't help, you can trash the new files and rename the old ones
back.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

 

[Elliott Roper]

thanks very much, that's sorted the bottom bit so I resize it now and
can see the buttons, but still not able to move the box as can't see
the top (I'm on a G4 Powerbook with the res. set at the highest level)
- any more ideas?

Heh! I was playing with my clipboard to see why my trick did not work.
Now mine is jammed under the menu bar too!
I achieved that by running 2 screens on my Powerbook, with the main
screen 'lower' than the second one. I then slid the clipboard under the
menu bar, tried my trick, it didn't work, in fact it shoved it
completely off the second screen and jammed it under the menu bar.
I feel like a real idiot.

John McGimpsey here offered a macro for arranging the windows, but it
seems that the clipboard does not get considered a window. I tried
hacking his macro to move everything down, but it did not move the
clipboard.

Now I need some help for the name of the clipboard object as seen by
the VB or whatever the Word macro is.