[hab]

Help. My 12 year old did something to my MSoft Word X for Mac setup. I am using Standard and Formatting toolbars at the top of the screen under the menu bar. When creating a new document, the new document opens behind the tools bars and I have to adjust the window down every time in order to see the ruler etc. I have not been able to find any preference or toolbar or view setting to control this behavior. A minor annoyance, I know, but an annoyance just the same.

Any suggestions?

[monkeybrain]

Sounds strange, it should remember your last window position I think. Maybe you can delete the preference file (in yourusername/Library/Preferences).

[hab]

Thanks, I had not thought of that. However, I just tried that but there was no change. Just fooling around, I grabbed the "move handle" (the vertical bar on the far left of the toolbar) and moved the toolbars around. The toolbars seemed to snap into place and like magic, the new document window resized below the toolbar. Problem solved ... Many thanks for the positive suggestion nonetheless.

[albyrw]

Don't trash the prefs, hab's totally right. The problem seems to be that rather than being "docked" against the top of the screen, excel thinks that the toolbars are floating around loose on top of the window. I had three toolbars open. To fix it, I closed one of them. Make sure the toolar at the top of the screen is right up hard against the menubar. Then drag the second one so that it snaps onto the toolbar above it. The window should resize to reveal the title bar. If you need to open any more toolbars then make sure they're snapped snugly up against the ones above. Excel will remember the settings after you quit.

I actually starrted my own thread on this topic, it's been bugging me for two years! Thanks guys.