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Windows 2000 - Frequently
Asked Questions
Table
of Contents
What Do I Do If My Office
Tool Bar Is Blocking The Close Button?
What Is The Easiest Way To Get To My Desktop When I Have
Multiple Applications Open?
How Do I Fix Being Unable To View Launched Word
Attachments?
What’s That Extra Mouse Button
For?
How Do I Use The Scroll Button?
What Happened To My Desktop
Icons For Office Programs?
What Do I Do If My Office Tool Bar Is Blocking The Close Button?
If the close button is covered by your office tool bar:
Right click on the toolbar and a menu will appear.
Choose the Auto Hide Option
Click somewhere else on your desktop
To have your toolbar reappear move your mouse up and the
toolbar will reappear
What Is The Easiest Way To Get To My Desktop When I Have Multiple Applications Open?
Click the Show Desktop icon 
. This will
automatically minimize all of your windows and allow you to view your desktop
icons.
What Do I Do When I Open Up More Than One Document In Word And I Get Two Word Programs On My Taskbar?
The two or more instances of Word on your task bar are a
normal occurrence. In Word 2000,
Microsoft has designed it so that you no longer have all of your documents
under one window. This allows you
easier access to all documents you are currently viewing.
How Do I Fix Being Unable To View Launched Word Attachments?
The Word attachments are minimized on the task bar. Click on the Word document, then click on
the maximize box.
What’s That Extra Mouse Button For?
The extra mouse button is used for scrolling either long documents or web pages.
How Do I Use The Scroll
Button?
Simply push and hold down the scroll mouse button (Circled in figure to left.) Then, move the ThinkPad mouse either up or down as needed.
What Happened To My Desktop Icons For Office
Programs?
All
of your Microsoft Office programs icons have been placed in your taskbar right
next to your start button.
What Happened To Shiva?
In order to dial in, you will now use PAL instead of Shiva.
How do I change my time zone?
Right click on your time (in the lower right hand corner of your task bar) and click on Adjust date/time. You may easily make your changes from there.