Formatting Palatte

[Kevin Brandt]

My 10 year old son moved the palatte off the screen. I cannot grab it with
the mouse or get it to return to the main screen. How can I restore this????

 

[Bill Weylock]

I¹m not 100% sure.

You¹ve probably already tried hiding it, quitting Word, restarting, and
clicking the icon to display it again?

Is there a chance your son is calm enough to try to remember where and how
far he dragged it?

Maybe you could fish for it? I know that sounds awful.

I think I would try throwing away the .plist for Word and restarting.
Something like palette positioning should me in a minor preference file like
that. (Save it somewhere so you can replace it if that doesn¹t solve the
problem.)

After that, I just feel for you. So sorry.

I am sure that one of the smarter people on here will have a more confident
and solid answer for you directly.

I¹m sure you¹ve discussed this with him?


Best,


- Bill

My 10 year old son moved the palatte off the screen. I cannot grab it with
the mouse or get it to return to the main screen. How can I restore this????

Panther 10.3.6
Office 2004
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Kevin:

Annoying, isn't it? Run this macro:

Sub DisplayFormattingPalette()
Dim aCmd As CommandBar
For Each aCmd In Application.CommandBars
If aCmd.Name = "Formatting Palette" Then
With aCmd
.Visible = True
.Top = 100
.Left = 100
End With
End If
Next
End Sub


Wherever it is, that will put it in the upper left of your screen.

If you're unfamiliar with macros, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/InstallMacroMac.htm

Use Internet Explorer to get to the page, or Refresh three times to make
Safari display it.

Cheers

My 10 year old son moved the palatte off the screen. I cannot grab it with
the mouse or get it to return to the main screen. How can I restore this????

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