Re: PC Word doc's not accessible in Office X for Mac

From: Dayo Mitchell (dayomitchell_1997_at_NOhotmailSPAM.com.invalid)
Date: 04/28/04


Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:57:51 -0400

Hi, it sounds as though possibly the files are opening off the monitor.
Here's some solutions where that was the problem:

John McGhie:
> Use Window>Arrange All to arrange the documents so
> that you can grab them, then drag them.

Elliot Roper:
>> This trick has worked in the past for something similar.
>> I'm assuming you are on OS X
>> Open word and the wayward file.
>> Use system preferences to change the monitor resolution to something
>> low and silly, like 800*600.
>> If your window hoves onto view, drag it to the middle of the 800*600
>> screen and set your monitor back to 1024*768 ar whatever it was before.
>> If the gods smile on you, the window remains in the middle of the
>> screen.

The full thread is "Re: Word file opening off the visible monitor" on the
newsgroup "microsoft.public.mac.office.word". Use Google Groups to search
for it.

DM

"Sanj" wrote:

> Hello, we have recently bought an imac for our office,
> which is mainly PC's connected to a shared drive. When
> trying to access PC Word documents on the Macintosh, some
> of the documents will open and some of them will appear
> to be opening, but no document is visible in any window.
>
> This seems to happen whether or not opened through
> clicking on the document or by going through file/open.
>
> I'm baffled- you would think it would consistently refuse
> to open PC Word files. Helllp!
>
> S



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