[mso] Re: Get Office programs to stretch across a widescreen
- From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:10:34 +1100
On my 1280x1024 screen, a "normal" view of one of my A4 documents needs to
be zoomed to 219% to get the ruler right across the screen. In "print
layout" view, a full-width page zoom is 148%.
100% in "normal" does indeed only take up the left-hand half of the screen.
100% in "print layout" view leaves a wide grey area each side of the page.
Don't know what her resolution is, but it presumably isn't less than 1280
wide.
If I switch to "web layout" view, a 100% zoom will fill the whole width, and
the ruler will run up to more than 30 cm.
"Outline" view at 100% only uses the left side of the screen.
"Reading" view doesn't present a zoom amount - just puts two pages onto the
screen.
2003 does indeed have the "page width" zoom control.
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The month calendars in Outlook appear to take up a fixed vertical space in
the pane. A bit more than half the height in my 1280x1024 screen. As you
change the height of the Outlook window, it will give you fewer or more
months. In full-screen 1280x1024, I get four months.
The pane can be expanded in width, and you'll get an extra column of months
once the pane is wide enough. Until that time, the existing column(s) will
be centred in this pane. I haven't found where you could change the actual
size of the little month calendars.
Regards, Dave S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Rosenthal" <rojo.editor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: [mso] Re: Get Office programs to stretch across a widescreen
> OK, I got her to send me a Word doc with images of Outlook and Word. =
> Outlook seems to be fine--she's complaining that the month calendars in =
> the left pane do not take up the entire available space of the left =
> pane. I no longer have Office 2003 to check this in. Is there a way to =
> enlarge the month calendars in the left pane?
>
> The Word issue is more of a problem. Although the Word window with the =
> toolbars does take up the entire screen, the horizontal ruler actually =
> ends literally halfway across the width of the screen. The view appears =
> to be "Normal." I can see her zoom setting--it is 100%. I see that Word =
> 2007 has a setting to zoom to "page width," but I can't remember if Word =
> 2003 can do the same. But in any event, is zooming the answer?
>
> By the way, I agree with your "diagnosis," but we can't really afford to =
> have pissed-off customers, even if they are being utterly unreasonable. =
> If I told you off-list the other nonsense she complained about, you'd =
> have a stronger reaction than that. But the main thing is that she =
> managed to configure things to her liking after she bought the computer =
> (from us). But she has forgotten that she did that and insists that she =
> got the computer already set up exactly as it was when she brought it in =
> (except for the viruses).
>
> Joel
>
> OK, you did a clean install, updated everything, re-installed programs, =
> =3D
> restored her data. Sounds like you did everything right. I think my =3D
> diagnosis in the last line of the previous message was correct.
>
> Brian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On =3D
> Behalf Of Joel Rosenthal
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:32 AM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: Get Office programs to stretch across a widescreen
>
> The built-in recovery is on a hard drive partition. Invoke it, and the =
> =3D
> recovery program formats the hard drive, replaces the Windows and driver =
> =3D
> files, and replaces the program files for the programs that came with =
> =3D
> the computer. In other words, you restore the computer to the way it was =
> =3D
> when it was new. So the drivers are all correct. I then updated =3D
> everything, reinstalled any additional programs she had, and restored =
> =3D
> her data.
>
> The only thing useful I got from her is that the Word ruler doesn't =3D
> stretch across thje entire screen. But note that I said this affected =
> =3D
> all Office programs on the computer.
>
> I've asked her to bring the computer back in, but she didn't want to.
>
> Joel
>
>
>>I'm glad that Dave took first stab at this one because I also was =3D
> somewhat
>>bewildered as to what was going on. I'm not sure what the "built-in =3D
> recovery
>>program" could have been and how that helps clean up an infected =3D
> computer. I
>>also thought that perhaps the video driver was the wrong one for the
>>widescreen monitor which needs to run at its own native resolution and =
> =3D
> not
>>one of the standard SVGA resolutions. But if everything else were =3D
> running
>>and looking just fine and that it was only Word that was running in a =
> =3D
> small
>>window, then I'd say the user needs a little brush-up on some basic =3D
> Windows
>>training. Tell her to right click on the Word icon and select =3D
> Properties.
>>Then set the Run options from Normal Window to Maximized. In other =3D
> words,
>>the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair.
>>
>>Brian
>>
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