Re: the default position of the find dialogue appears off-screen
If you have 2 or more windows open and tiled in the VBE - e.g. a couple of
code modules or a UserForm and the code behind it - or if you split a single
window, the "Find" dialog will stay on the same screen as the VBE.
Otherwise, it slides off to the side (usually directly over the split
between the 2 screens in the set up I use most often) and keeps sliding back
there no matter how often you drag it back.
Unfortunately, since VBA is a "developer tool" and not a "consumer
application", I doubt we're ever going to see a fix for this. Developers are
expected to put up with this sort of thing; I mean it's not like we're not
going to buy Word because the "Find" dialog in the VBE is buggy - or that we
*will* buy it because it's not. We buy Word for Word and the VBE is just an
added extra. Of course, you'd never see this sort of thing in a commercial
app because it would hurt sales... ;-P
Cheers!
Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP
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"matthew_of_cambridge" <matthewslyman@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jul 6, 11:20 pm, tswaters <tswat...
> wrote:
> > Thanks Ken, I'll try that. Didn't even realize I had posted to an
> > outlook
> > forum.
>
>> It's more of a minor annoyance than any real problem with VBA or Word.
> > I
> > basically have to drag the VBA window onto my bigger monitor and open the
> > find dialogue from there to be able to see what I'm finding. ( and of
> > course, I drag it back into position, but it never remembers )
>
>> I've looked through some registry settings... under here:
> > HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local
> > Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags
> > ... there are a bunch of "bags" each storing assorted window startup
> > positions. Would the "find dialogue" in Word's VBA editor be stored
> > here?
>
>> Conveniently (?) there are no identifiers on these, and I've read around
> > that these are added in the order you run the program after first
> > starting
> > your machine?? I'm sure I could use REGMON to hack through to find
> > which
> > ones are being updated, but this seems like more work than it's worth.
>
>> Is there some sort of trick to updating the startup-position of the find
> > dialogue?
> > Without hacking the registry?
>
>> " - " wrote:
> >
> > > You might want to post this in a Word group and not an Outlook group.
> >
> > > > > >
> > >
>
>> Original:
>
>> um, yea the subject basically sums this up. i'm trying to do development
> > in
> > word 2007 with the built-in visual basic editor... whenever I press
> > CTRL-F to
> > bring up the find dialogue, it appears probably 30-40 pixels above the
> > top of
> > the visual basic form. when it's not maximized, it's a minor annoyance...
> > but when the form is maximized, the find dialogue is nowhere to be found.
> > i've closed down word numerous times, always moving the find dialogue to
> > where i would like it to show up... is there some sort of trick to this?
> > i
> > know I've had a similar issue with different windows before ... is there
> > some
> > sort of registry setting somewhere where the saved defaults are being
> > stored?
> I'm having this problem too - when I connect my laptop to a second
> screen and place the VBA editor on the larger (external non-primary)
> screen. I must say it's really annoying. Anyone from MS listening?
