Hi Wes
An (eventual) response. I must be a very dedicated worker or a lazy
so-and-so (or both). Hovering the cursor over the date I had discovered, but
it means taking fingers off keyboard! Sounds v. oblique as a groan about a
manoeuvre doesn't it, but there you go. When I'm in full word-flow, don't ask
me how many words per minute, even that distraction is annoying; and, yes I
don't always know what day of the week it is. The calendar on the wall is a
definite option - the kids took my last one - I should print one (to remind
me how great the garden looks) with Publisher and hang it beside me, turning
the head is a painful option with damaged vertebrea.
On screen design and layout I always tried, when writing application
software, to put the user in the cockpit, or driver's seat where all the
required controls were readily to hand and vital information apparent at a
glance. The 'wing-mirrors' of secondary but esential reference information I
always put at the screen corners in scaled down 'blow-up' blocks and,
wherever possible, clustered 'controls' clearly distinguishable and close
together (like the yaw, pitch, attidude controls on the chopper's stick).
This all contributes to the user's, perhaps vital, need for a fast working
pace with reference material immediately available.
I suppose years of work in that sort of enviroment has made me a fastiduous
old trog where design and layout are concerned. Thanks again for your
response.
Idris
Wesley Vogel said:
Hi Idris,
Yes it does take up too much space.
Just mouse over the clock to see the date, i.e. hover your cursor over the
clock in the Notification area. That's what I do and I have a calendar
hanging on the wall that if I turn my head to the right 90 degrees I can
see. LOL
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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Idris LLewelyn said:
Hi Wes
Thanks for your prompt response - your solution certainly works but wow,
what a lot of space just to get a dozen or so more characters displayed! I
don't know that I can live with that great blue pond at the foot of my
screen. Let's see if there are any other ways - do you know of any more?
e.g. CAN the taskbar (thanks, now I know it's not called a toolbar) be
narrowed with this date/time format displayed OR is there any way of
'click and reveal' this full date/time display. Thanks again for the
response - this is a great way of getting help (let me know if you want
medicines advice!)
Idris
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Idris
Wesley Vogel said:
The bar with the Start button is called the Taskbar and the area where
the clock is is called the Notification area.
Depending on how you have your date/time options set, you can double the
size of the Taskbar and the Date will also show up. This takes up quite
a bit of space.
Right click the Taskbar | If Lock the Taskbar has a check mark next to
it, left click it to unlock it | Move your cursor over the top of the
Taskbar until a double headed arrow appears | Left click and drag the
Taskbar up as far as it will go | Right click the Taskbar | Left click:
Lock the Taskbar to lock it in place.
Lock the taskbar...
[[Locks the taskbar at its current position on the desktop so that it
cannot be moved to a new location and also locks the size and position
of any toolbar displayed on the taskbar so that it cannot be changed.]]
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Idris LLewelyn <Snowdonia National Park> hunted and pecked:
I was used to always having the time AND date (e.g. "11.36 Monday, 1st
January 2007") in the bottom right-hand corner of my screen, displayed
on the Toolbar (I presume this is termed the toolbar, not the taskbar?).
Since using XP, try as I might, I cannot get more than the time to
display.
How can I get the date and time always displayed? (Can I 'cheat' and,
for instance, put it into the name of an icon?)
I'll forgive any wiisecracks about "Put an alarm clock on top of the
monitor"
Idris
