[AccessD] Can't find or open debug window

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 07:10:27 CST 2022


Thanks, Paul. I'll givr this a try.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 4:01 PM Paul Wolstenholme <
Paul.W at industrialcontrol.co.nz> wrote:

> Arthur,
>
> My usual response when I've opened a window and find its title bar to be
> off-screen was usually as follows:
> 1) Alt-m
> 2) m
> 3) any cursor key, such as the down arrow
> 4) move the mouse
> 5) left click
>
> At 1) you open the context menu for the window (a standard feature, not
> just limited to Access windows).  The (off-screen) window you are
> interested must have had the focus for this to work.  The context menu it
> opens is also probably off-screen too.
>
> At 2) you are selecting the Move option from the context menu.
>
> At 3) you are initiating movement of the window.  You can use cursor keys
> repeatedly to keep moving it but perhaps you still can not see the window
> or know where off-screen it is.
>
> At 4) the window snaps to the mouse cursor location and you can see it on
> screen and place it where you want it.
>
> At 5) you stop the window from following the mouse.
>
>
> More recently people in a very helpful forum taught me about holding the
> windows key then typing a cursor to move a window.  I suspect that might be
> a much easier answer to the problem of moving a window that has the focus
> but is not positioned on-screen.  Re-training myself to remember that is
> taking some time but it might work too.
>
> I use my computer with 2 screens of 2 different sizes.  Some programs
> seem to end up opening a window on the smaller screen with a position
> inherited from the bigger screen.  Murphy's law assures us the inherited
> position will be just where I don't want it (with the crucial parts in the
> invisible zone that surrounds the smaller screen).
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 06:41, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That is interesting. But why don't I see it in the list of windows? I
> think
> > next I wil try closing all the codde windows and see what happens. In the
> > worst case, I can always re-install Office 365m which only takes hours.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:30 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > As others have mentioned any of the windows can be docked anywhere, it
> > > could be off to the left, or the right etc.  And it can be resized,
> i.e.
> > > dragged to a size where it can't be used.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 7:38 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Don't ask me how, but somehow I managed to lose y debug window.
> Ctrl+G
> > > > doesn't do it, or if it does, then somehow it's not visible. Any
> ideas?
> > > >
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