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From: bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can windows go beyond a monitor while using two monitors?
Message-ID: <10330060@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 88 12:58:10 GMT
References: <10319@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> I have been having problems using my MacII with two monitors.  Having just
> aquired the second monitor, I expected to be able to extend a Microsoft Word
> 3.02 window so as to have a full page or more of text visible at once.  Word
> and just about every other program I own, cannot open a window larger than a
> single MacII screen.This seems funny, but not even the finder can do this.
> So I am stuck with having more windows, a good thing, but they must be <= 
> the size of the MacII screen.  Having seen what looked to be demos of six
> monitors-for-a-window in magazine articles, I was wondering if there was a
> way to RESEDIT(1.2d1) my way to larger screens.  Is there an easilly 
> accessible parameter for window size, and can it be changed.
> I have tried friends' drawing programs, and etc., and they all seem to 
> have this problem.


WARNING: Technical information follows which describes a means of getting
around this problem!

1) Hold down the command key
2) Click and drag to resize the window in question.

Sorry for the sarcasm - it's that kind of day. 

I've tried this with the Finder, MPW, Word, and WriteNow. Works for me. I won't
guarantee that this will work with screens side-by-side (actually try it 
some time; it's good for yucks) but I currently have a full page of WriteNow
on the screens (stacked, as it were). Actually, as I find out, I cheat.
WriteNow will let you resize the window in this way even if the command
key is not down. (Word will not).

Bob Hablutzel		BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU
Disclaimer:		No promises for brand-X software.