MS Office 2016 file operation screens: setting the width of the leftmost column (that keeps a list of recent...
At my workplace I am forced to use MS Office 2016. With this - as compared to Office 2010 - comes the following problem:
Word 2016 (and the other Office 2016 applications) looks in various situations like this:
(This is when you chose to do certain file operations such as saving, opening or creating a file.)
Pay attention to the left column (blue).
This column can conventiently display a list of recently used documents.
However, most unconventiently, the column is too narrow to display file names of any meaningful length. (It is almost as if this was designed by someone still living in a DOS world where filenames cannot be longer than eight characters. Ridiculous, really.) File names cut in half - as visible in my screenshot - are of absolutely no use, especially when you are working with multiple files with systematic names.
My question: Is there a way to make this left column wider?
I am pretty sure there is no regular way to do this. But perhaps there is a registry setting that does the trick?
Note: I am asking here for MS Word, but the same problem torments me in the other Office applications.
Note also: In the so called "start screen" Microsoft has managed do adjust the left column to the necessary width. (But this appears only on proper start of the application, not during regular work.)
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asked Dec 5 at 11:48
Christian Geiselmann
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At my workplace I am forced to use MS Office 2016. With this - as compared to Office 2010 - comes the following problem:
Word 2016 (and the other Office 2016 applications) looks in various situations like this:
(This is when you chose to do certain file operations such as saving, opening or creating a file.)
Pay attention to the left column (blue).
This column can conventiently display a list of recently used documents.
However, most unconventiently, the column is too narrow to display file names of any meaningful length. (It is almost as if this was designed by someone still living in a DOS world where filenames cannot be longer than eight characters. Ridiculous, really.) File names cut in half - as visible in my screenshot - are of absolutely no use, especially when you are working with multiple files with systematic names.
My question: Is there a way to make this left column wider?
I am pretty sure there is no regular way to do this. But perhaps there is a registry setting that does the trick?
Note: I am asking here for MS Word, but the same problem torments me in the other Office applications.
Note also: In the so called "start screen" Microsoft has managed do adjust the left column to the necessary width. (But this appears only on proper start of the application, not during regular work.)
windows-registry microsoft-office-2016
asked Dec 5 at 11:48
Christian Geiselmann
626312
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At my workplace I am forced to use MS Office 2016. With this - as compared to Office 2010 - comes the following problem:
Word 2016 (and the other Office 2016 applications) looks in various situations like this:
(This is when you chose to do certain file operations such as saving, opening or creating a file.)
Pay attention to the left column (blue).
This column can conventiently display a list of recently used documents.
However, most unconventiently, the column is too narrow to display file names of any meaningful length. (It is almost as if this was designed by someone still living in a DOS world where filenames cannot be longer than eight characters. Ridiculous, really.) File names cut in half - as visible in my screenshot - are of absolutely no use, especially when you are working with multiple files with systematic names.
My question: Is there a way to make this left column wider?
I am pretty sure there is no regular way to do this. But perhaps there is a registry setting that does the trick?
Note: I am asking here for MS Word, but the same problem torments me in the other Office applications.
Note also: In the so called "start screen" Microsoft has managed do adjust the left column to the necessary width. (But this appears only on proper start of the application, not during regular work.)
windows-registry microsoft-office-2016
asked Dec 5 at 11:48
Christian Geiselmann
626312
At my workplace I am forced to use MS Office 2016. With this - as compared to Office 2010 - comes the following problem:
Word 2016 (and the other Office 2016 applications) looks in various situations like this:
(This is when you chose to do certain file operations such as saving, opening or creating a file.)
Pay attention to the left column (blue).
This column can conventiently display a list of recently used documents.
However, most unconventiently, the column is too narrow to display file names of any meaningful length. (It is almost as if this was designed by someone still living in a DOS world where filenames cannot be longer than eight characters. Ridiculous, really.) File names cut in half - as visible in my screenshot - are of absolutely no use, especially when you are working with multiple files with systematic names.
My question: Is there a way to make this left column wider?
I am pretty sure there is no regular way to do this. But perhaps there is a registry setting that does the trick?
Note: I am asking here for MS Word, but the same problem torments me in the other Office applications.
Note also: In the so called "start screen" Microsoft has managed do adjust the left column to the necessary width. (But this appears only on proper start of the application, not during regular work.)
windows-registry microsoft-office-2016
windows-registry microsoft-office-2016
asked Dec 5 at 11:48
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626312
asked Dec 5 at 11:48
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asked Dec 5 at 11:48
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