e-mail window

My e-mail window screen is too far to the right to let
me use the "x-box" to close an e-mail and the screen,
What can I do?

Close all other windows, then use the monitor buttons, (make a note
of the current settings), to move the screen to the left until you
can *grab* the side of the window with the cursor and drag it to the
left a few inches. Return the monitor to its original setting. Use
the cursor to drag the window to a normal full screen size and use
File Close. Now open OE and go to the window in question and it
should open to the last size used.
--
Bruce Hagen
~IB-CA~



"R. Alan" wrote in message
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My e-mail window screen is too far to the right to let
me use the "x-box" to close an e-mail and the screen,
What can I do?

Hi R. Alan,

Can you drag the window using the top bar? If not, (with the message window
on top/active) right-click on its button on the taskbar, select Move and use
the arrow keys to move the window.

--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MVP - (IE/OE)
Lynnwood, WA
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"R. Alan" wrote in message
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My e-mail window screen is too far to the right to let
me use the "x-box" to close an e-mail and the screen,
What can I do?

The answer to your question depends on your situation. I
can only think of three off the top of my head and since I
am long winded, I will separate them into three posts.

SCENARIO 1:
- There is no black space on the left side of your screen
(unless your wallpaper is black).
- A window is open (specifically you mail program) and
shifted to the right.
- Behind the open window you can see your desktop*.
- When you move your mouse all the way to the left side of
your screeen, it continues until you reach the left most
edge of the monitor. It will not appear as if there is
more distance that your mouse pointer can travel.

Answer to Scenario 1:
Note that the upper edge of any window is called its title
bar. It will have a descriptive title of what is contained
in the window and typically has three buttons on the far
right hand side (the 'x' as you know is used to close the
window).
Consider the title bar a window "handle" and your mouse
pointer is your hand. To "grip" the "handle" you must
press your left mouse button. When you release the left
mouse button, your "grip" is released.
Press your left mouse button on the title bar (the window
handle). Hold the button down so as not to release
your "grip" on the window. Then, move your mouse to the
left, slowly at first, and notice that the window moves
with the mouse pointer.
Release your "grip" on the "handle" when you have
positioned the window so that all of the buttons in the
upper right hand corner are visible.



* The windows desktop is a location with a customizable
background image. Typically, it is the location for most
of the icons you use to open your programs and should be
the first thing you see, along with your Start Menu, after
turning the computer on.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
I assume, unless otherwise stated, that you are
experiencing no other difficulties with your system
performance or windows functionality.

The answer to your question depends on your situation. I
can only think of three off the top of my head and since I
am long winded, I will separate them into three posts.

SCENARIO 2:
- There is no black space on the left side of your screen
(unless your wallpaper is black).
- A window is open (specifically you mail program). The
left edge of the email program's window is on the left
edge of the screen, yet you still cannot see the buttons
on the right edge of the screen.
- When you move your mouse all the way to the left side of
your screeen, it continues until you reach the left most
edge of the monitor. It will not appear as if there is
more distance that your mouse pointer can travel.


Answer to Scenario 2:
Not only can you manipulate the location of the window on
your screen (see Scenario 1), you can also resize windows
by their edges, and yes, a window can be larger the view
that you see on your monitor.
You will first have to move your email window to the left
and you may have to "grip" the "handle" and move the
window to the left more than once to see the end of the
window*.
Once the window has been repositioned so that the close
button is visible you will need to rezise the window, or
it will be the same size and in the same position the next
time you open your mail program.
PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR MOUSE POINTER! Move your mouse to
the right most edge of the window (to the right of the
scroll bar, if there is one). When your mouse is on the
edge of the window, your pointer will resemble a double
sided arrow. "Grip" the window by its side "handle" and
move your mouse to the left to make the window smaller.
This step may also need to be performed more than once*.

* Imagine that some how your window spreads to the right
and is 2 times the size of your monitor:

[ desktop ]............
{Window size x}

If you "gripped" the titlebar in the middle and moved your
mouse to the left as far as it could go, you still
wouldn't have moved the window far enough over to see the
buttons. It would kind of resemble this:

......[ desktop ].......
{Window size x}
..... ^ [you gripped here on the title bar]

So you would need to release your "grip" on the titlebar
and "grip" it again in the middle, move your mouse pointer
(drag) to the left, and continue this until you can see
the desired close button. You could also "grip" the
window's title bar closer to the right of the screen from
the very start and then move your pointer from the right
edge to the left edge. In one "drap and drop" you have
moved the window the the left the distance of the monitor!

Once you see the edge you previously could not, "grip" its
edge and move your mouse to the left (but not all the way
or you will loose sight of the titlebar! - half an inch is
safe), drag the window back to the right a little and
repeat until you can see all of the window on your monitor.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
I assume, unless otherwise stated, that you are
experiencing no other difficulties with your system
performance or windows functionality.

Scenario 3 after the lighting storm. Logging off.