Office Help wants to share the screen 1

[mbarron]

Is there any way to keep the Office help screen from "sharing" the screen?

On my old computer (Win95), when I would start the help file, the Help screen would open maximized and the application would stay the same size (maximized). With the new computer (WinXP), once I start the Help file, It takes up about half of the screen on the left and the main app is resized to half the screen on the right. Both computers have Office 2000.





Mike

 

[carrr]

From a cnet article re: your problem...

"By default, the Help window attaches itself to the right side of the screen. If you prefer it on the left, select Run from the Start menu, type regedit, and press Enter. Find this item: Hkey_current_user\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\HelpViewer.

In the right-side pane, double-click the Docked State key and type 1. Click OK and close the Registry Editor. Now launch an Office XP application; the Help window is attached to the left side of the screen.

To keep the Help window from shoving around your Office XP applications, resize and position it as you would any window so that when it appears, it doesn't obscure your app. Then close the Help window. From this point on, the Help window will appear in this smaller form and in this location on the screen in any Office program."

 

[mbarron]

carr,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I am using Office 2000, so the setting was a little different.

I changed the registry setting at
... 9.0\Common\HelpViewer and changed the setting for "IsFloating" from 0 to 1.






Mike

 

[carrr]

Sorry...my lack of attention to details...glad you got it sorted out...

 

[mbarron]

Don't apologize. Without your guidence, I would still be searching and frustrated

Mike

 

[carrr]