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i did run a *nix shell prompt from a rooted phone of mine way back when. i hate typing with my thumbs though so i gave it up.
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: i hate typing with my thumbs though
So do I. That's why I only type with my forefingers.
Everywhere I go, I'm one of the slowest typists -- but the most productive, usually by far.
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What version of Office are you using? I use Windows 10 with an older version of Office and the "grab" areas are normal size. So it's probably not a Windows thing.
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modified 7-Aug-19 9:22am.
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IT recently upgraded us so that may be part of it.
I believe it is Office 2016. (But it is difficult to find the version in there. No real Help...About... )
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Part 2 on "What Version?"
Wow, it is really difficult to find that info. Had to find the Excel.exe and do a File...Properties on it.
It ends up being version 16.0.11901.20176
Everything is weird now. 
Here's a snapshot:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gm2cA.png[^]
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raddevus wrote: Wow, it is really difficult to find that info. Had to find the Excel.exe and do a File...Properties on it.
File -> Office Account.
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Michael Martin wrote: File -> Office Account.
Never would've guessed that. It makes sense that after all these years of Help...About... in every product you can think of that Microsoft decides to change the place where you find version info.
Also, in Outlook it is File...Office Account...
In Word it is just File...Account... So chalk up another for consistency. 
We seem to be running Office 365 and it is version 1907 (I believe that is the year it was developed).
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In Word, select File --> Account. This gives you the basic information. Mine says:
Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus
and below that:
version 1906 (build 11727.20244 Click-to-Run)
I had not paid attention before this, but MS is using the same naming schema as Windows.
Click About Word to get more details. When when Microsoft posts a version number, they hide it in plain sight. My version is listed on the About dialog as:
Microsoft Word for Office 365 MSO (16.0.11727.20222) 32-bit
The average end user may not recognize it as version 16 ...
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Thanks, it is crazy that even the place to get version info has moved. I mean Help...About... is in every app for over 20 years and now I have to go to File...Account (and File...Office Account... in Outlook - no consistency).
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The Office team has run out of real functionality to implement, so it appears they make cosmetic changes that provide an illusion of change without producing anything useful.
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You're forgetting how much they break, with each release.
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Or just go to %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office and it's a two-digit directory name (if there are two, it's the lower number).
The File.Account thing only works if your copy of office is (foolishly) linked to a user account.
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File - Account works even if you aren’t signed in, it’s the same screen that shows you your product activation status too. On old versions of Office it would just say “Office 2016 Home & Business)” but now it will say something like “Office 2016 Home & Business (my.email@account.com)” so you can determine which Microsoft account the license belongs to.
The sign into office is actually entirely seperate to your account linking and you can freely sign out of office from that screen and keep your activation attached to the machine.
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I stand corrected. Cheers.
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David Crow wrote: I use Windows 10 with an older version of Office and the "grab" areas are normal size.
Yup. That's because it's not a Windows 10 feature, it's a bunch of individual app developers all drinking similar koolaid and rolling their own mutually inconsistent and frequently buggy implementations of custom titlebars they can vomit buttons into.
I blame browser authors pushing tabs into the titlebar for making this crime against usability seem acceptable. 
If it was an officially supported feature it'd suck less in that the titlebar would still have all its regular features and presumably have a consistent reserved area as a grab handle.
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Now, try it on a tablet ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, try it on a tablet ...
I'm bettin' it's really terrible ain't it?
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You have no idea ...
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I don't have a problem with that, because a keyboard user does not touch the mouse for moving windows.
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Please try the following:
Press keyboard "Windows" + Direction key (Up, down, right, left).
Isn't this cool?
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Not if you want windows that aren't quasi-maximized.
Alt+Space
M
Arrows
works for versions of only if you're happy with movement so slow it's faster to take your hands off the keyboard, get a mouse out of the drawer, plug it in, wait for windows to load the driver, move the window with the mouse, unplug the mouse, put it back into the drawer, and put your hands back on the keyboard.
It's only really useful for when monitor changes (eg docked to standalone laptop) leave a window location off screen because once you've arrowed it once the mouse will move it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Marc Greiner at home wrote: Press keyboard "Windows" + Direction key (Up, down, right, left).
Isn't this cool?
Yeah, I've been using that (well, alt + spacebar) since Win 3.1 when I would be installing Windows on computers we had sold that didn't have a mouse attached. Yes, we provided mice, but sometimes at the bench I was too lazy to get up and grab a mouse. 
Those were the days! 
However, this is a bit different because to use that keyboard command you have to first set focus to the window. Well, yes, I guess you can Alt-Tab through and then use that, so that is a reasonable option. I don't really like the mouse anyways. It's a distraction from typing. 
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Seconding the other keyboard user:
Try
Alt+Spacebar
This should pop the system menu for the focused app
I use
M
UpArrow
cursor keys or mouse to relocate.
M for Move
UpArrow to grab the top of the window since I normally need to do this for some application that has pushed off of the top of the screen. I use one portrait mode monitor and one landscape mode monitor which makes it easy to (accidentally) position frames in weird locations.
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