Word 2003 question

[Handley_Page]

Forgive this question, but I've managed to accidentally press a combination of buttons which has resulted in all my DOCs featuring a panel on the left of the screen which I gather is called the "Document Map".

How on earth do I switch the damned thing OFF; permanently.

The ability to switch might be of use at some time in the future, but it's not high on my list of "Good Things to Do".

Trying to find out via Google and so on (Microsoft is bloody useless for it)
has not resulted is any useful info., and the so-called "help" files aren't.

(and as if that's not enough, Firefox has a real problem!)

 

[TxRad]

Under View there is a button to toggle it off.

 

[SandraMustard]

Under View there is a button to toggle it off.

It's actually a 'check-box' called 'navigation pane', it's on the 'view' tab as Tex mentioned (finish what you start, old man. ) In documents that have headings, the pane shows them like a table of contents. Otherwise, you see nonsensical listing of beginning quotes or nothing at all.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thanks chaps

 

[TxRad]

It's actually a 'check-box' called 'navigation pane', it's on the 'view' tab as Tex mentioned (finish what you start, old man. ) In documents that have headings, the pane shows them like a table of contents. Otherwise, you see nonsensical listing of beginning quotes or nothing at all.

Since I'm working with Word 2000, I showed what i sawed.

 

[JKendallDane]

I had an older version of MS Works on the Sony Vaio that committed suicide back in the spring. A very similar panel popped up one day, when my fat fingers got too excited and punched four or or five keys at the same time, while feverishly working on series chapter that really needed to be submitted that night.

As HP said, trying to find the fix online is insane. I really believe MS does that kind of shit intentionally. The Google time I invested to finally figure out how to make it go away, is an entire afternoon of my life I will never get back. Really pissed off the muse for a couple days, too.

Fortunately so far...(knocking on the fake wood of my computer desk)...I haven't seen an equivalent window/pane/pop-up/etc from the Open Office program that came with the new Dell Inspiron.

 

[Handley_Page]

Ah yes.
Open Office is good.
Don't they call it 'Libre' these days?

 

[JKendallDane]

I'm not sure, HP.

The Dell I snagged was used, but looked and operated as if it came out of the box that day. It was four years old and had been collecting dust on a shelf for nearly three years, but for for $200, I was more than happy to take it off their hands after playing with it for about an hour.

Open Office 4 was what was loaded on it, so it may well be known by a different name now.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm not sure, HP.

The Dell I snagged was used, but looked and operated as if it came out of the box that day. It was four years old and had been collecting dust on a shelf for nearly three years, but for for $200, I was more than happy to take it off their hands after playing with it for about an hour.

Open Office 4 was what was loaded on it, so it may well be known by a different name now.

It's Apache Open Office these days, I think.

 

[TxRad]

It's Apache Open Office these days, I think.

Actually, there are several dozen different versions out there these days.

That's the thing about open software. You get the source code with it so you can make it fit what you think it should or shouldn't do.