Mac Forum / Applications / Word / December 2005

On 12/24/05 7:59 AM, in article
1135429152.524601.245380@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "I should be doing
housework" <michaeln@megalink.net> wrote:

The Formatting Palette can be dragged to any position on screen you prefer,
just click & hold on it's Title bar, put it where you want it, & that is
where it will (should) stay until you move it again.

This is a different story. The Formatting Palette, unlike the other
toolbars, cannot be docked, so the doc window will always treat it as a
floater. Someone may offer the option of controlling the window position
programmatically, but I don't use code for such things... IMHO, there are
enough things to interfere with each other without adding 8 or more lines of
code to do what a simple drag will accomplish :)

If you mean 'stretch' them to reveal the other commands that appear in the
list on the right end, no. Those commands are actually in a menu which
cannot be directly modified. However, most of the commands in those menus
can be added to any toolbar you wish (Customize Toolbars/Menus dialog box),
& as you add command to the main section of the toolbar it will
automatically adjust in length to accommodate the new items.

HTH |:>)

The Formatting Palette (FP) doesn't dock, but there are at least a
couple of ways to fake this:

1) Create a new toolbar with a control that's as high as the P is wide
(this is somewhat problematic as the FP width changes, depending on
which panes you have open - for me, 230 px is as wide as the default FP
gets). Dock the custom toolbar on the left and drag the FP over it.

2) Create an add-in that uses With Events code to detect
new/opened/refocused docs and resize and position their windows
automatically. I do this with my normal Word configuration, but it's not
easily maintained if you don't know at least a bit of VBA. Post back if
you're interested.

Toolbars are automatically sized to contain their controls. If you want
to make a toolbar longer, you can add a blank control of the appropriate
width.

Hello Michael,

Re question 2 ­ further to the comments by CyberTaz, you may get something
useful from some of the ideas in the section titled 'Buttons, transferring
between toolbars' in some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled
"Bend Word to Your Will", which are available as a free download from the
Word MVPs' website (http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm).

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. Be sure to read
the front end so you can use the document to best advantage and select the
right settings for reading it.]

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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On 24/12/05 11:59 PM, in article
1135429152.524601.245380@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "I should be doing
housework" <michaeln@megalink.net> wrote: