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Couldn't agree more - quite how MS (or whoever) decide what the default should be is anyone's guess, but they didn't ask me - I wonder who they did ask, if anyone?
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Their instructions say 1. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options.
What "Microsoft Office Button"?! Oh, this is for Excel 2007, which probably doesn't even open in Windows 10, and of course things were rearranged in Excel 2016. So after some hunting around...
>File > Options (way down at the bottom) > Advanced / Cut, copy, and paste / first check box
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Excel 2007 (and all the other 2007 Office apps) run just fine in Windows 10. And they have loads of title bar space.
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I was being facetious. Sort of. 
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I like it, in my workflow a lot of times I paste only values not formulas (that are meaningless in the new workbook), and more often, I strip HTML formatting from text in Word with it.
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I paste values too, though not very often, and don't mind doing it without that thing that always overlays what I want to work on after pasting the usual way. 
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Word 2003 still looks just the same on Win 10, I don't understand your problem. 
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Just give it a few years, and Windows will no longer be able to open that document or even convert it to a version that can be opened. It happened to me with some stuff I had archived from the '90s. 
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VM to the rescue (again)  
Virtual Machine with Windows XP and Office 2000, convert them and then change to Win 7 and office 2010...
M.D.V.
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An interesting solution! I would've thought that finding a copy of Office 2000 would be almost impossible, but presumably it isn't for you to suggest this.
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I think I still have one laying around somewhere in the external drives.
And there is the internet archive... I suppose you can find oldies there too.
M.D.V.
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If you have an MSDN subscription, you can download all the way back to Office 95 
There's even Windows 3.1 if you want to go all nostalgic
I think the availability depends on the subscription. (I have an Enterprise subscription)
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Didn't know... thank you.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft blocks old file formats for "safety".  Those of us with a cynical bent might suspect that blocking old file formats was a push to get people to upgrade ... fortunately I'm not cynical ... 
In Word 365:
Click File --> Options --> Trust Center
Click Trust Center Settings ... --> File Block Settings
By default, file formats from the 90's are blocked. Read the instructions -- a checkmark indicates the file format/action is blocked. Uncheck any file formats you want to open. [This actually makes sense, although not at first blush.]
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I was trying to open stuff in PowerPoint'95, but none would open even after changing these settings (I have Office 2016 Professional but found them, so thanks for mentioning this).
A search turned up zamzar.com, which failed to convert them when I tried a few years ago. But this time they succeeded.
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When I had that problem with some old word docs I installed Libre Office and it was able to open the old docs just fine.
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Haven't had that problem with Word, but Teams is pretty bad at this. I'm always struggling to find a place I can click on the caption to drag the window around.
I suspect there's some devs at Microsoft being told that everybody's running everything fullscreen (y'know...like you would on a tablet or phone)...so who still uses non-maximized windows nowadays, that you'd want to move around...?
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Yeah I also face the same problem with MS Teams.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Yep, I know what you're talking about!
How about using Windows key + arrow in the direction of your other monitor (2 or 3 times)?
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It is windows key + Shift key + Arrow in the direction of the window.
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Oh, didn't even know that
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It is in my top 3 most used keyboard shortcuts, just after alt+F4 and Copy/paste.
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I never use alt+F4.
I use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+S a lot and of course Ctrl+Z/X/C/V.
Also Windows+L and Windows+E.
In Visual Studio I use a lot more.
Overall, I don't use a lot of shortcut keys though, although I'm using them a lot more than a few years ago when I used practically none.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I never use alt+F4.
Try it : Friday evening, hit alt-f4 frenetically until the computer shuts down. Very relieving feeling.
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