Question Is this possible at all?

[Kramerica]

Hi all

Firstly before posing my question I’d like everyone to know that I have a learning disability and do not know if this behaviour is normal for Word 2013 or if there is a possible fix for it; and I am aware that this is a trivial question but it is really starting to get annoying.

On a daily basis I work in Arrange All mode-displaying 2 different documents on screen simultaneously. These two documents very rarely open the next consecutive day in the same configuration-my biggest annoyance is that they usually open over each other, meaning I have to
Does anyone know how to force Word to stop playing games and to memorise the previous configuration (as shown in the attachment)?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[mpo]

Pressing F11 twice will temporary save the location of the two windows in your preferred locations.

Before too long Windows will revert to the default last saved window location and new windows will cascade from the new location.

You'll have to rearrange the windows and press F11 twice again.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[SAAA]

Sort of a side question: does arrange all, view side by side, stacked etc. work for any of you people? I never get actual side by side windows nor stacked like in the picture above since win10 exists.

It was fine on any other pc I had, stopped working on win10 machines, both new and upgraded ones.

I even found this silly thread here that shows it isn't solved officially?

Redirecting

 

[mpo]

Side-by-side is trivial in Windows 10. Open both windows (Word documents, spreadsheets, etc.). With the focus on one of the windows, use Windows key + left or right arrow. The window with the focus will dock to the right or left. Windows 10 will then prompt you to select the window you want docked to the other half of the screen. I'm not a fan of snapping to the left/right location by dragging windows.

If you have multiple monitors, you can cycle the window with focus through the available monitors by holding down the Windows key and pressing the left or right key until the window is in your preferred location. Also works if your window spawns mostly off screen.

Up and down are a different story. Even programs with built-in dockers for tables seem to have trouble remembering the default location up or down.

 

[SAAA]

I know you can do that. Problem is default behaviour is totally weird with partial windows opening, like they don't fill the screen entirely, and the supposed arrows solution can't really deal with more than 2 windows that well.
Start up win 7 open 3 docs and click side by side once, done. Guess what I'm still using at job place and works better than my home pc? xD

 

[Kramerica]

Hi all and thanks for all your contributions - but MPO what do you mean by: Wash, rinse, repeat (in your initial post?).

 

[Kramerica]

Hi

Hi all

Firstly before posing my question I’d like everyone to know that I have a learning disability and do not know if this behaviour is normal for Word 2013 or if there is a possible fix for it; and I am aware that this is a trivial question but it is really starting to get annoying.

On a daily basis I work in Arrange All mode-displaying 2 different documents on screen simultaneously. These two documents very rarely open the next consecutive day in the same configuration-my biggest annoyance is that they usually open over each other, meaning I have to
Does anyone know how to force Word to stop playing games and to memorise the previous configuration (as shown in the attachment)?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi MPO
Could you clarify what is meant by

Pressing F11 twice will temporary save the location of the two windows in your preferred locations.

Before too long Windows will revert to the default last saved window location and new windows will cascade from the new location.

You'll have to rearrange the windows and press F11 twice again.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[mpo]

Windows 10 forgets the up/down status of the windows, so you have to constantly rearrange the location of the windows.

Lather, rinse, repeat - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I use a couple of GIS programs that have explicit docking for tables. Tables docked to left and right of each other will remain that way. If you dock tables up and down, invariable they turn into tabbed (i.e., one table is hidden) after the project is opened a number of times.

 

[Kramerica]

Hi again MPO

Thanks for verifying what "R,L,R" is (I suspected it may be this).