Re: Cannot resize window

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From: Bill Foley (wfoley1_at_EATSPAMANDDIEtxu.com)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:01:39 -0600

With the window maximized, click on the middle icon (Restore). Then you can
click the window borders to resize it. Once you have it like you want,
click the "middle icon again (now says maximize). It returns to full
screen. Click the "Restore" once more and it return to how you resized it
earlier. 

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"Macdeux" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:c09401c3ecda$745d8ee0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I cannot resize the Word window -- I can minimize it or
> maximize it, but when I try to resize it the icon in the
> right hand corner changes, but no arrows show up when I
> put the cursor in any of the four corners to resize. I had
> this problem before and found that the normal.dot file
> sometimes causes this problem so I deleted it, but this
> isn't correcting the problem this time.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!

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