rachel said:
I am having trouble with my formatting palette. The palette,
dispite numerous attempts to reset or close and open the option,
is far beyond the bottom of my screen. It comes out of its little box
on the formatting toolbar and immediately posts itself somewhere
in my bottom left screen corner. It's not visible, and therefore not
able to be grabbed and repositioned. Anyone know how to fix
that?
First, make sure you've applied all the updaters found at
Mactopia downloads:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/default.asp
(run repair disk permissions after updating:
OS 10.2.x: Run the Disk Utility (in the ./Applications/Utilities
folder). From the First Aid tab, click "Repair Disk Permissions".
OS 10.1.5: Run Repair Privileges (same folder, or download from
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106900
it probably has nothing to do iwth your problem, but it prevents a
host of others.)
Sometimes this happens when the screen resolution has been changed.
Try switching to a higher resolution, and if the title bar can be
grabbed, move it up and to the left, then switch resolution back.
Assuming you've done the above, to get a really recalcitrant
formatting palette back under control, type OPT-F11 to enter the
Visual Basic Editor. Type CMD-G to open the Immediate window. Type
or paste
Commandbars("Formatting Palette").Top = 100
and hit return. Then type or paste
Commandbars("Formatting Palette").Left = 100
and hit return. Type OPT-F11 to return to XL.
The palette will now be near the top left of your screen and you can
reposition it as necessary.
