Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Put Word 5.0 in a Window Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 00:24:43 GMT References: <11404@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1991Mar28.041937.13827@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar30.075421.25921@milton.u.washington.edu> <1fpig8o1@cctb.wa.com> <1991Apr1.072632.25999@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@seri.gov (news) Distribution: na Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 27 klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou) writes: >curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson) writes: >>I think your problem is that Word is running in a graphics mode that >>Windows can't put in a window. The solution would be to look in your >>Word manuals for an option to run in text mode (it has been a while >>since I've used Word for DOS, but I think there is an option for this). >>Word uses graphics mode so you can see italics, bold, underlined >>properly, when you run Word in text mode all of these things turn >>into colored text. >My Word is in Text mode, but I still got the same error message >".. cannot run this high-resultion application while other high-resolution >applicationare running full screen ..." Are you really sure of that? The symptoms seem to indicate that Win3 thinks W5 is a graphics application. Does your mouse pointer look like an arrow or a block? It looks like a block in text mode. Alt-F9 toggles between the two modes. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Engineer VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Program 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future