Microsoft Word 2007 documents dissapear off screen when opened

Question

I have Windows 7 and Microsoft Office with Word 2007. When I try to open a document it disapears off the screen and can't be seen. If I open Word with winword.exe /a it works OK. I have deleted the normal.dot file but this has made no difference. Any ideas?

Answer 1

In the registry, try to rename the:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data

key to OldData. When you restart Word, a new Data key will be written. This might help.

Answer 2

Try doing this:

Make sure the document window is in focus even if you can't see it (try alt tabbing to it) Then use the keyboard shortcut: Alt+Space then M then Arrow Keys

It will let you move the window around using the keyboard instead of the mouse so you can move it back to your visible monitor.

Answer 3

Did you use Word on a second monitor before? If that was the case it remembers the last window position and since your second monitor might not be on/connected right now you get the soft confused. Strange anyway.