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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Custom Layouts
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:33:12 -0500
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Laurie Williams wrote:
>Is there a way to dictate the order the windows open up? I have a layered
>layout with the various windows overlapping, so I can just click on one to
>pull it to the top. But when the project opens the wrong ones are on top.
>I'd like them to paint up from left to right, top to bottom so I can see the
>title of all of them. I've set them up the way I want and then saved the
>layout, but they always show up in the same way. Or maybe I could get them
>to open up collapsed (yeah, that makes sense <g>). I mean to begin collapsed
>when the project opens. I tried to save the layout while a few of the
>windows were collapsed, but they came up open when the project opened.

When the project opens, the selected Layout will be the last one
selected. As for saving the Layout, what name did you assign the "new"
(or over-written) Layout? Was that Layout the last one in use at the time
you closed TMG?

It sounds like you have a Layout with seven windows open and some partially
overlaying others? Do you use other Layouts? For example, I have one
Layout for data entry, one for navigation, one for use in comparing persons
(side-by-side), and for other purposes. Yes, it is quick to have all the
windows available and just select the one you need. But it is as quick to
select the Layout that has the specific windows I need for a certain
routine, do that routine as often as needed, and select the appropriate
Layout for the next routine, etc. In this way, I get used to have certain
window in certain places for a routine and I tend to work faster since all
window for a routine are fully visible. Very often, I only need to glance
at another window and since it is always fully visible I don't have to
break my pattern of keystrokes/mouse clicks to bring one window forward and
then immediately bring another back forward.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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