June said:
When I open Word, the documents take up the entire screen. Cannot bring
them
down to scale, despite restoring the computer to an earlier date,
increasing
the resulotuion (which just gave me tinier letters, but did not reduce the
page), using zoom (same thing, tinier lettters). Frank suggested I go to
Desktop and click "personalize" but I don't have that. I do not have a
mouse.
The natural first step, given your previous post on this, is for you to ask
you son to undo whatever it was he did that caused this behaviour.
Other than that, based upon what you said last time (but didn't repeat here)
about:
i) it not being just Word but also at least Internet (Explorer) and Outlook
Express, and
ii) you "cannot see the bottom of the page"
do you mean that with Word (etc) open you can no longer see the Taskbar,
which usually runs across the bottom of the screen? It's where you see your
Start button, your open applications, your system tray (clock, etc) and
perhaps Quick Launch or other toolbars.
If that's the case, try this: right-click a blank area of the Taskbar,
left-click Properties and put a tick in the box next to "Keep the taskbar on
top of other windows". You may also want to untick "Auto-hide the taskbar"
and see if that brings about the behaviour you want.
Other than that, you need to clarify for us exactly what you mean by "take
up the entire screen" and "bring them down to scale". If you just want
Word's window to take up less of your screen space, do as Big_Al says and
click the middle button in the top-right corner of Word, that says "Restore
Down" when you hold the mouse cursor over it.
You can then *resize* the window if you wish by grabbing and dragging its
edges with the mouse, and *reposition* it by grabbing and dragging the title
bar across the top. Sorry if this is trying to teach you how to suck eggs
but as I said, you have used unfamiliar terminology so there's a degree of
guesswork on my part.
Frank did follow-up on the XP version of clicking on "personalize" (which
was for Vista). Did you try that?
If none of this works, then you will need to report back with more explicit
detail of what you have and what you want to have (unless, of course,
someone else hits on the solution in the meantime!).
....Just re-read your post where you say you don't have a mouse. Please adapt
the above instructions appropriately, according to your input device.
