minimize a doc using key strokes

[Guest]

Is there a way to minimize a document by using some combination of key
strokes? For example, using Alt will get you into the Toolbars, but is there
a way to get to the 3 boxes at the top right corner of the document?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Interestingly, there are keyboard shortcuts to maximize and restore document
windows, but not to minimize.

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Words into Type
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[Guest]

Suzanne,

Thanks for the info. Well, it never hurts to ask, even if there isn't a
solution. Sounds like this needs to be added to the wishlist for microsoft.

Hagan

 

[Jay Freedman]

I think Alt+spacebar, N minimizes the main window in almost all Windows
programs. (Alt+spacebar opens the command menu, which you can also get by
clicking the program icon on the title bar. Then N is the accelerator key
for Minimize.) If you have Word 2000, or the later versions in SDI mode
(check the "Windows in Taskbar" option), this shortcut minimizes individual
documents.

There does not seem to be any shortcut to minimize individual documents
within the main window in MDI mode.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks, Jay. I figured there must be some way to do this.

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[Guest]

Thanks Jay. Awesome little command.

Hagan

I think Alt+spacebar, N minimizes the main window in almost all Windows
programs. (Alt+spacebar opens the command menu, which you can also get by
clicking the program icon on the title bar. Then N is the accelerator key
for Minimize.) If you have Word 2000, or the later versions in SDI mode
(check the "Windows in Taskbar" option), this shortcut minimizes individual
documents.

There does not seem to be any shortcut to minimize individual documents
within the main window in MDI mode.

 

[BGM@IMS]

Does anyone at Microsoft know why this "awesome little command" (Alt ->
Spacebar -> N), which I believe has been a Windows feature since its
introduction, was disabled when Office 2007 was produced?

 

[Graham Mayor]

It wasn't!

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[BGM@IMS]

Thanks, Graham. But then what happened to my installation that Alt ->
Spacebar produces no response for Excel, Outlook or Word? It used to
activate a menu with Restore (usually grey), Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize
and Close.

I was going to add the version etc. for Excel, but help, now a ?, brings up
online help. There's no menu with "about" as a choice. This is true for
many items, almost impossible to find in the new menu system. (For example,
where is the Chart Wizard? It seems to have been fragmented into sub
commands.)

 

[Jay Freedman]

I don't know why your Alt+spacebar doesn't open the command menu. It works for
all the Office 2007 programs here, on multiple computers with different versions
of Windows. Does it work for you in other programs outside of Office? If not,
maybe you have some program running that "eats" the keystroke.

You also seem to be unaware of some of the things Office 2007 that you should
have seen immediately on first using the programs:

- The big circular thing with the Office logo in the upper left corner is a
button, not just a decoration. Click it to get a number of menus that deal with
documents and the program as a whole -- many of them were on the File menu in
previous versions.

- At the bottom right of the menu that drops from the Office button is "Word
options" or "Excel options", etc. This opens a tabbed dialog that contains
(almost) all the options, plus the About button which is on the Resources tab.

- On the ribbon, some of the groups have a small arrow at the right end of the
group's title. That's a dialog launcher button. In Excel, the Charts group has
one, which opens the Insert Chart dialog (which is not and never was a
"wizard"). You can also get the same dialog by clicking the "All charts" choice
at the bottom of the gallery from any of the other chart buttons on the ribbon,
but that takes two clicks instead of one.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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