To maximize a window with the keyboard before Windows 7 was Alt + Spacebar,
then X. (After pressing Alt + Spacebar, let up on both keys, and then press
X). To maximize it permanently, I know of two options.
Option 1: Right click (or application key) on the Desktop icon for the
program in question and go to properties. Now tab to the "Run" dropdown
box, arrow down to Maximized, and press Enter to choose OK.
Now sometimes the option above is not available, or doesn't seem to work.
One example I can think of is people who still have Outlook Express. Their
email message will open up really small. What you have to do is manually
change the size of the window of an open email message to make it bigger. I
do this with the mouse, but to do it with the keyboard, use Alt + Spacebar,
then S for Size. Each time you press an arrow key, the window size
increases in that direction (press the right arrow, the window size
increases on the right). When you have gone as far as you wish with one
arrow, press Enter. Now to expand it in another direction, press Alt +
Spacebar, then S again, and use another arrow key (again pressing Enter when
you have gone as far as you wish).
Now, each time the person opens another email message, Outlook Express
"remembers" the size of the window. I've had to do this in Internet
Explorer, too (every time a link opened a new window, the window would be
about half a screen instead of maximized).
Hopefully this is the information you were looking for.
Julie Adkins
Metrolina Association for the Blind
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Subject: [VICUG-L] Full Screen with XP & Office 2007
Subject: Office 2007 with XP question
Would anyone please tell me how to make the windows full screen and keep
them that way, using the keyboard. I know that I can click on the box next
to the X. That does not make it the default. Every time I reopen that
application or window it is back to reduced size.
Appreciate any help.
Mike Corcoran
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