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Office closes when minimized

Jul 20, 2005 7:45AM PDT

All of a sudden Office closes when I click the - button rather than minimize as it has always done. any ideas? I found the same problem on a MS forum with a post 2 months ago and no replies. Thanks.

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Jul 20, 2005 7:57AM PDT

Seems that I had somehow clicked hide when minimized on the system tray icon. Problem solved.

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I use "Hide inactive icons"
Jul 21, 2005 1:45AM PDT

in the System Tray, but I have never known this to happen to minimised programs in the normal area of the Taskbar, (between the Start menu button and the Sys tray).

Wierd.

Mark

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Jul 21, 2005 3:43AM PDT

I don't know how the hide when minimized button was checked unless my grandson did it while playing a game. He will have his own log on before being allowed bac in the PC.