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A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

Last post 12-17-2008 9:35 AM by eyoungren. 8 replies.
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  • 12-16-2008 8:31 AM

    A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

     I am using Quark 5.1 and two of the menus have got pushed off the right side of the screen - how do I get them back?

    Jimnutt
    West Sussex UK
  • 12-16-2008 10:32 AM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

    Perhaps you could increase the resolution of your monitor. This would make everything "smaller", and fit more on your screen. This is assuming that toggling the windows off and on from the menus hasn't solved the problem.
  • 12-16-2008 11:28 AM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

    If you can afford to lose any custom preferences you may have set (including print styles) you could just delete the preferences file. That will force a new preferences file to be written, which would reset all your palattes. 

    Erik Youngren (Click my name to email me, or the Contact button above.)
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  • 12-16-2008 3:28 PM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

     Is that XpressPreferences.prf?   Do I just delete it completely or just all its contents?

     

     

    Jimnutt
    West Sussex UK
  • 12-16-2008 3:28 PM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

     Monitor is at maximum resolution available

    Jimnutt
    West Sussex UK
  • 12-16-2008 3:56 PM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

     Yes, that is the correct file. Just delete that one. Or move it to your desktop and relaunch XPress. If your problem goes away, then you're good and you can trash the file. If not, it's something else.

    Erik Youngren (Click my name to email me, or the Contact button above.)
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  • 12-16-2008 3:57 PM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

     Changing to a lower resolution might also force the palattes back onto the screen. You can then center them and then go back to your previous resolution.

    Erik Youngren (Click my name to email me, or the Contact button above.)
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  • 12-17-2008 2:39 AM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

     Hooray!   Problem solved!  

    Changing the screen resolution right through the range from highest to lowest had no effect at all (except that it b***d up the layout of all my program icons!) but deleting the preferences file - or moving it to the desktop and re-naming it - solved the problem.

    When I re-loaded Quark all the palettes reappeared, and, what is more, when I re-loaded a document I had just finished, nothing had changed - all the parameters of the document were exactly as before !

    Very many thanks for the advice - next time I have a problem I'll know who to ask!

     

     

     

     

    Jimnutt
    West Sussex UK
  • 12-17-2008 9:35 AM In reply to

    Re: A dumb question - I've lost my menus!

    You're welcome. Glad we could help. 

    Erik Youngren (Click my name to email me, or the Contact button above.)
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