From: "Robert Comer" 

While I applaud trying to maximize working space, I absolutely hate hidden
features like you describe.

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Bob Comer


"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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>A continuing "whinge" of mine:  why do we even have the menus
and toolbars
>appearing at all times?  When I'm working in the program "space" (a
>document in Word, a spreadsheet in Excel, etc.) I don't need the  menu
>options.  Instead, why not hide them and restore them when I move the
>cursor to the Window titlebar or press the "Windows" key (or,
since that
>is currently linked to the Windows menu, ctrl+Windows).
>
> So ... when I move the cursor to/through the Title bar, the menu bar and
> others are displayed ... as long as the mouse pointer is on the Window
> title bar or on a menu bar or on a toolbar then they stay displayed.
> Right now, the closest I can come to that is to set an option that fully
> hides them until I go through a sequence of clicks:
>
> RightMouseButton on the Menubar unused space,
> click on the bar I want to select
> click on the option I want
> RightMouseButton on the Menubar unused space (any toolbar unused space,
> actually)
> click again on the bar I want hidden.
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:58:10 -0500, John Beckett
>  wrote:
>
>> Sorry I haven't been able to join in the moaning about Vista (I haven't
>> tried it), so I thought I would whinge about something else that's really
>> been bugging me for a while.
>>
>

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