note to self....

This applies to Windows 2000 Professional Edition - it may apply to other versions of Windoze as well.

To prevent Windows from hiding portions of the menu until you hit that stoopid double-down arrow thing:

1. From the Start menu, select Settings, then Taskbar & Start Menu...
2. The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window will open. Near the bottom of the window, uncheck Use Personalized Menus, and then click OK.

Since Excel doesn't respect the system level setting, you will need to do this again in Excel (and perhaps other MS Office components, don't know yet).

According to Univ of Indianna you will, and they seem to think it's a standardized procedure, even:

1. From the Tools menu, select Customize... .
2. Click the Options tab.
3. 1. In Office XP or 2003, under "Personalized Menus and Toolbars", check Always show full menus, and then click Close.
   2. In Office 2000, under "Personalized Menus and Toolbars", uncheck Menus show recently used commands first, and then click Close

Note that we got there by right-mousing the menu bar to get to the appropriate dialog.

Labels: fix, gui, menu, ms, win2k, win32, windows

posted by 0x0000  # 21:23