Hi Lucy
.ppt 2007 Vista Ultimate Premium.

snip>> Why is it you have your monitor set to 800x600?

No idea. My hubbie sees to all that. He is still with the Sand Man probrably
for the next couple of hours so I will have to ask him WHY? All our
equipment etc is bob on and up to date. There must be a reason and only he
knows:-)

Thank you

MoMo (Maureen)

I mentioned that to my husband and he said it reminds him of the time he had
problems with a new car he had just bought and he took it back to the garage
that sold it to him. He told the man that he drives to Manchester every day
and almost every time it breaks down after about 20 miles on the motorway.
The man in the garage said, "Well why are you going to Manchester"? "Why
don't you go to Liverpool instead, it's much nearer?" ;-)

Actually, my husband likes 800 x 600 (and so do I) because it makes
everything comfortable to read. He said (over my shoulder!) he knows all
about native monitor resolutions and Windows icon sizes and spacing and font
size settings and the various Windows dots per inch settings and other
things like that, but many programs still show some things in very small
sizes regardless of those setting, except for the Windows dots per inch
setting which of course increases the size of everything if you change it
from 96 to 120  but which causes many programs to fail to work properly.

He has tried changing various settings, disabling Aero and various other
things, and it did not fix the problem, but he's just noticed that it is the
tabs at the top that are causing the problem. Microsoft's programmers seem
to have tied the position of the Picture/Drawing Tools and Sound Tools tabs
to be aligned immediately above the Format tab. This makes everything appear
okay unless you set preferences to also show the Developer tab in the ribbon
(which my husband had done) in which case it shifts the Format tab (and
therefore the Picture and Sound Tools tabs) to the right and on an 800 x 600
display it causes the Sound Tools tab to disappear under the control box
(min, max and close buttons). So, it is a bug.

My husband is a programmer himself and he reckons that a decent programmer
(which I presume Microsoft have lots of) should be able to produce a program
that works on all machines. Anyway, rant over. My husband insisted I write
this stuff ;-)

I didn't want to involve him but he TOOK OVER on this matter.

Thany you

(MoMo) Maureen

Kathy
Found it Quick Access Tool bar.This is the first thing I did and was
mentioned in my very first posting. Didn't work :-(
MoMo (Maureen)