Unsatisfied With My Extra Wide Screen

Hi Everybody
I Am Not Satisfied With My Extra Wide Notebook Screen 9:16.
I Would Rather Prefer 3:4 One For Readings.
I Wish I Could Move The Windows Top 4-5 Lines (address Bar, Menu Bar And Tool Bar) Aside To Free More VALUABLE Vertical Room For My Text . Since these bars occupy a precious portion of the screen to me !
I Mean One Often Focuses On The Middle Portion Of The Screen,and Seldom Uses These Bars.
Is There A Way To Move These Bars Aside ?
Thanks

 

If your talking about in a Internet window, just go into options and un check the bars.

 

Thanks Dboogiec
Yes I Am Talking When I Am In Internet
What Options Do You Mean, Internet Options?
I Right Click On The Bars And Untick All ! Still 3 Bars Exists!
I Still Need These Bars . I Want To Move These Away To One Side !if Possible!

 

You could also move the task bar to the right or left so that it provides a few more pixels of vertical real-estate.

 

The 'F-11' key will put most browsers (and a lot of other programs) into full screen mode. That might help you a bit. It also brings the junk on top back when you need it.

 

Many Thanks To All Respondants
I Tried The F11 It Was Great !
I LOVE THAT ONE "olyteddy" thanks again

 

I forgot all about The F keys, nice one olyteddy !

 

Getting rid of toolbars and the status bar is generally the most you can do.

Using a program in full screen mode can be annoying at times - at least to me.

On that note - write an angry letter to your laptop's manufacturer and complain

 

And MS ignored the wide-screens when they developped Office (and other apps) with this ribbon UI

Michael

 

MS didn't anticipate such screens would be the better answer.

I mean... try to read something across the whole width of a screen which is 16:10 - or 16:9 - unless it's 13,3" 16:10 (and that's too wide for my liking when it comes to reading) - it'll drive you mad.

In the 16:9 protest thread we had a nice debate about 16:9 is pretty much useless if not worse for productive computer use.

 

This is obviously of no help if you already own a widescreen monitor, but try and shop for a monitor with a rotating stand.

I have a 1680x1050 Dell monitor with a stand that allows 90 degree rotation of the screen. Editing documents and reading ebooks in portrait orientation is amazing. You fit the whole page on the screen with room to spare for a fair few toolbars.

It is well worth the effort to switch orientation in the graphics card settings if you intend to spend several hours dealing with documents.

 

For Office, the 16x9or10 widescreens work best for two-page display.

 

The question is, how often do you use two page views? To be honest, the smallest amount of your work would require 2 pages side by side, and that can be done on 16:10 just as well.

 

I'm writing a dissertation. I have that view open about 80% of the time my laptop is turned on.

 

OK

Might be user patterns.

I don't like having several documents to refer to on a screen... besides the fact that I stare at my screen too much anyway and as a result my eyes hurt...

 

from here

or just doubleclick the tab-titles of the ribbon to show or hide.


believe me, microsoft thinks a lot with the stuff they do.

 

Except that that will drive you mad when you use that toolbar a lot.
Ok, if you do not use it, it's OK - but if you do there are few things more annoying than a toolbar always disappearing.

 

for you, yes. as usual. it's not like it does random behaviour, so it's just something you can't get used to.

it's actually very much like menues years ago. you know that well and love it because it's old.

besides: he said "they don't think about widescreen at all" while this exact feature got implemented BECAUSE OF WIDESCREEN USERS. doesn't per se matter if one likes it. they thought about it, and implemented a solution.

 

I suppose you have a point there.

But there is nothing more annoying than menus collapsing because you slipped a little with you rmouse.... and menus - the old menus in Word were horrid, the 2007 ones are quite nice - and useable. So if I use them, it's good to have them available.

On that note - for some strange reason they always collapse on my mothers laptop (or maybe they stopped now? The setting didn't want to stick) and it annoyed her a lot too.