Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005

Welcome to the most brainless thing in the Mac OS X GUI. They ripped
off almost all the draggable decoration around windows.

Microsoft's Mac BU decided they could go one better. The header toolbar
can be dragged, but only by the tiny vertical grey bit on the extreme
left.

If you can't see it, post back, and somebody will offer a macro to
heave the thing into view. (In fact, I will - it is time I conquered VB
properly. I'll butcher one of the macros that have already been posted
for getting other palettes and toolbars back into view.)

The Header and Footer toolbar can be dragged using the drag bar at the
toolbar's left side.

However, since I'm a control freak, I like making sure everything about
the environment is the way I like it. So I put something like these
macros in my startup global template to make sure the toolbar comes up
exactly where I want it (actually, I have about 80 procedures that do
everything from setting every toolbar location to setting every
preference and keyboard shortcut, to loading other add-ins, to setting
up automatic backup to a separate folder, to modifying the Visual Basic
Editor, to... etc).:

   Public Sub AutoExec()
       PositionToolbars
   End Sub

   Public Sub PositionToolbars()
       With CommandBars("Header and Footer")
           .Top = 300
           .Left = 100
       End With
   End Sub

Adjust the .Top and .Left settings to suit your needs.

For more on global templates, see:

   http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/GlobalTemplateContent.htm

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