Tool bars hide spreadsheet - pulling hair out

[Michael Jardine]

Whenever I open spreadsheets, the top part is often hidden under the various
toolbars. The only way to get to the top part of the sheet is to grab the
toolbars and pull them out of the way. I do this enough with the clutter on
my real desk and really don't need such idiocy on my virtual desktop. Is
there a way to work around this with the Mac version of Excel? I KNOW
that the floating toolbars are supposed to "lock" when you move them into
place, but they don't seem to have memory or when I open a new spreadsheet,
it seems to open in the previously saved location, irregardless of the
current configuration of the toolbars.

Another thing that drives me crazy is the Adobe toolbar (I have Adobe
Acrobat). I don't WAN'T this toolbar, yet it pops up every time I load
Excel. I've tried disabling it but, like a bad penny, it always comes back.

This is driving me crazy. I'm tempted to get rid of my PowerBook and go
back to the simplicity of PC. And I'm tempted to never use Adobe again.

Sorry to bleat. Any solutions would be greatly appreciated!

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Whenever I open spreadsheets, the top part is often hidden under the various
toolbars. The only way to get to the top part of the sheet is to grab the
toolbars and pull them out of the way. I do this enough with the clutter on
my real desk and really don't need such idiocy on my virtual desktop. Is
there a way to work around this with the Mac version of Excel? I KNOW
that the floating toolbars are supposed to "lock" when you move them into
place, but they don't seem to have memory or when I open a new spreadsheet,
it seems to open in the previously saved location, irregardless of the
current configuration of the toolbars.

The toolbars do dock, and that will cause any windows that haven't been
repositioned to drop back down below the toolbars.

You can lock the toolbars in the dock:

http://mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/excel/locktoolbars.html

If the window's been repositioned, in XLv.X and XL04, it will stay at
the top of the screen. To reposition those, choose Windows/Arrange... If
you have multiple workbooks open and you only need to reposition one,
check the Active workbook only checkbox.

While it's probably overkill, I have an add-in that automatically sets
the position, height, width, and zoom of each workbook I open:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.excel/bro
wse_frm/thread/fee9d60108a6ddca/47b63f62dcb28c5c

Another thing that drives me crazy is the Adobe toolbar (I have Adobe
Acrobat). I don't WAN'T this toolbar, yet it pops up every time I load
Excel. I've tried disabling it but, like a bad penny, it always comes back.

See

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pdftoolbar.html


<pet peeve> I had to really force myself not to mark this post read
without replying -- the non-word "irregardless" drives me up the wall,
don't use it!</pet peeve>

 

[Michael Jardine]

<response>Regarding irregardless:


irregardless

adv : regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes
used humorously

</response>

 

[JE McGimpsey]

<response>Regarding irregardless:


irregardless

adv : regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes
used humorously

</response>

If you'd used it humorously, it might not have grated..

<counter-response>

irregardless
adv. Nonstandard
Regardless.

[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be
correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in
nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the
early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being
an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical
absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a
single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different
from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been
considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition

Irregardless.
Not a word used in respectable company: somewhere between irrespective
and regardless. Use one of these instead.
Source:"Guide to Grammar and Style" by Jack Lynch

Irregardless
Do not use. The word is a mistaken fusion of irrespective and regardless.
Source: web.presby.edu/writingcenter/guides/glossary.html

Irregardless
An erroneous redundancy for regardless.
Source:www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/Keables/KeablesGuide/PartThree/Letters/I
..htm

Irregardless
Irregardless is nonstandard. Use regardless instead.
Source:hometown.aol.com/stetsonenglish/wordsusa.htm

</counter-response>

In any case, it always sounds, uneducated to my ear.