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Yeah, I've considered it and if Pink let's me put it on her I'll definitely use that next time until I am sure she'll return out of her own 
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Just proves that the only good cat is a dead cat, unless you need a moving target.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Earlier today I had to open a Word document and I wanted to move it to my other monitor.
Then it occured to me - there's no place on the title bar to click & drag. The Title bar is full of "features" now. When did it ever become a good idea to move controls off a toolbar, which you can hide, rearrange, and move, to the Title Bar. Even the actualy title is some kind of save control that opens a drop down with save options.
When I tried to drag to window to the other monitor, I hit the title, and instead of moving, this drop down opened. Then I had to actually go find some place in the title bar to hold on to to move the window.
So instead of Click, Drag, Move, done, I had to spend 2 minutes trying to figure the damn thing out. What I'm sure was an "enhancment in the name of productivity" has really become an annoyance that makes me not want to use this app any more.
After coding apps for 35+ years, I'm strugging to the the evolution in software we use these days.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Excel is also bad for this, putting up a little symbol menu after a paste operation, or previewing a window containing another Excel document, both covering up things that you want to look at. Just stop with all this nonsense!
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 But people who want this shite should have to go through this!
modified 29-May-20 6:18am.
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Couldn't agree more - quite how MS (or whoever) decide what the default should be is anyone's guess, but they didn't ask me - I wonder who they did ask, if anyone?
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Their instructions say 1. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options.
What "Microsoft Office Button"?! Oh, this is for Excel 2007, which probably doesn't even open in Windows 10, and of course things were rearranged in Excel 2016. So after some hunting around...
>File > Options (way down at the bottom) > Advanced / Cut, copy, and paste / first check box
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Excel 2007 (and all the other 2007 Office apps) run just fine in Windows 10. And they have loads of title bar space.
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I was being facetious. Sort of. 
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I like it, in my workflow a lot of times I paste only values not formulas (that are meaningless in the new workbook), and more often, I strip HTML formatting from text in Word with it.
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I paste values too, though not very often, and don't mind doing it without that thing that always overlays what I want to work on after pasting the usual way. 
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Word 2003 still looks just the same on Win 10, I don't understand your problem. 
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Just give it a few years, and Windows will no longer be able to open that document or even convert it to a version that can be opened. It happened to me with some stuff I had archived from the '90s. 
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VM to the rescue (again) 
Virtual Machine with Windows XP and Office 2000, convert them and then change to Win 7 and office 2010...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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An interesting solution! I would've thought that finding a copy of Office 2000 would be almost impossible, but presumably it isn't for you to suggest this.
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I think I still have one laying around somewhere in the external drives.
And there is the internet archive... I suppose you can find oldies there too.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you have an MSDN subscription, you can download all the way back to Office 95 
There's even Windows 3.1 if you want to go all nostalgic
I think the availability depends on the subscription. (I have an Enterprise subscription)
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Didn't know... thank you.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft blocks old file formats for "safety".  Those of us with a cynical bent might suspect that blocking old file formats was a push to get people to upgrade ... fortunately I'm not cynical ... 
In Word 365:
Click File --> Options --> Trust Center
Click Trust Center Settings ... --> File Block Settings
By default, file formats from the 90's are blocked. Read the instructions -- a checkmark indicates the file format/action is blocked. Uncheck any file formats you want to open. [This actually makes sense, although not at first blush.]
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I was trying to open stuff in PowerPoint'95, but none would open even after changing these settings (I have Office 2016 Professional but found them, so thanks for mentioning this).
A search turned up zamzar.com, which failed to convert them when I tried a few years ago. But this time they succeeded.
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When I had that problem with some old word docs I installed Libre Office and it was able to open the old docs just fine.
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Haven't had that problem with Word, but Teams is pretty bad at this. I'm always struggling to find a place I can click on the caption to drag the window around.
I suspect there's some devs at Microsoft being told that everybody's running everything fullscreen (y'know...like you would on a tablet or phone)...so who still uses non-maximized windows nowadays, that you'd want to move around...?
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Yeah I also face the same problem with MS Teams.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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