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Thanks!
Works on Ubuntu too.
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Kevin Marois wrote: After coding apps for 35+ years
Strange. I never needed to code anything to make 'apps'. I make that sound automatically when someone punches me.
Kevin Marois wrote: I'm strugging to the the evolution in software we use these days.
That's quite simple. Apple has been going down that road for an eternity now. You are a dumb user and don't know what you want, so you have to be told by someone who knows exactly what's best for you.
The evolutionary step along the way was to serve their company's needs and not yours anymore. So what are you going to do, now that you have finally begun to see it? Blue pill and back into the Matrix? Or better the red pill?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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A trick that has helped me sometimes is to hit the "Alt" key to let the menu appear, then you have a more or less tiny but clean area.
Or as Sander said the combo "Alt+Tab" and "Windows + Arrow keys" to move between Monitors / Maximize / Minimize
But yes... since Windows 8 the things are getting worse with each "update" or "new Version"
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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Kevin Marois wrote: to move controls off a toolbar
The ribbon´is now so full with features that an even quicker way to show essential commands was needed. Mwa ah ah ah. Next generation will have a side bar with buttons to move the window, since this is not possible anymore by clicking the titlebar 
Which version are you running ? My Word does not have this, and it's the latest desktop one. Maybe you are on the sh*tty 365 ?
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I think it's a strategy to get you to upgrade to a wider monitor screen. 1920 not big enough, upgrade to 2560 and a couple of years later 3840.
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I've got pretty much the same thing with the taskbar. So many pinned or running programs, there's no room to right-click.
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Sounds like a partially self-inflicted problem.
The not-obvious solution: Right click the date/time...
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Excellent. I didn't know the clock would show more than offering to change the date/time.
The task bar is a setting problem...my computer at work, just shows the running program icon, but at home I get a wide buttony thing with the program name. I'm sure there's a setting somewhere...ah...yes...I never thought to actually look before.  "Combine taskbar buttons" seems to do it.
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I agree, but you can use the same trick I use when a dialog is off screen (after unplugging a monitor eg.)
- in the Windows taskbar hover over the application
- hover over the thumbnail that appears
- right click and select "Move"
- use the arrow keys to move the window
not ideal, but faster than 2 minutes 
(but perhaps that was the solution you found )
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I'm kind of old-school. I still use [Alt-Space], [M]. You can use mouse or keys from there.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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I wonder if you used a browser in the last 10 years.
Nowadays using title bar for more functionality is a standard, and any "big" application uses it.
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You can use any bit of the title bar to drag windows. I just did it, dragging the search bar. Then dragging the document title and status. Which Word version do you use? I'm on the currently newest.
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This has nothing to do with Windows.
It has to do with the way Office apps are now developed, adding lots of things on the Title Bar, you can still mode the window, but you need to find a place where there isn't something else over it.
FYI, it's the same on MacOS. I use Office 365 Windows 365 on both platforms, same thing.
Gilles Plante
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I believe a lot of it is just "Change for the sake of change", and people trying to justify their job.
The same can be said for all of the creators of "new languages and frameworks".
I started in 1980 and am right there with you.
First Kill all of the designers, THEN the lawyers.
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Solution to the problem, not the rant.
Learn the WINDOWS + ARROWS key shortcuts to move windows around the screen and between monitors. Keeps your hands on the keyboard for faster workflow.
<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-more-window-snapping-shortcuts-and-secrets/">Windows 10 tip: More window-snapping shortcuts and secrets | ZDNet</a>[<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-more-window-snapping-shortcuts-and-secrets/" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
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"Qulatiy is Job #1"
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I think this is true for a vast majority of the modern UI world, regardless of the application or OS. There's no place to tap/click/touch without invoking a control. Drives me absolutely crazy.
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After taking the backward leap to the "Modern" interface, we are now moving into the "Cubism" period. Just keep watching. We should be seeing "surealism" making its way into UI design soon.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Oh yeah. Chrome and Firefox's title bar area are narrowed too, because they are filled with tabs. And if you have opened enough tab, you have no place to drag and drop the window anymore. They sacrificed functionality just so we can see a little bit more of opened website.
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I don't mean to be insensitive but that was almost Darwinian.
The astonishing thing is that a bunch of pre teen boys in a backwater town in a third world country even know the marvel franchise.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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You seem to under-estimate the penetration of US cultural products around the world. Nearly 25 years ago, I saw a Coca-Cola billboard in the middle of nowhere on the Tibetan plateau (somewhere between Lhasa and the Nepali border). I'm not surprised these teenagers know about marvel franchise.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Yah I should not be surprised, while travelling down the Mekong we visited a Cambodian village which had only 1 TV in a dirt floored hall where everyone sat on the ground watching a Thai games show it was bizarre.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I've seen a documentary once where they went to some backwater village in Africa and installed the first computer in the village.
Without any explanation the village kids would start internet and browse to Google.
They had never even seen a computer before yet they knew exactly where to go 
The reach these companies have is kind of scary...
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Same in Samusir (Toba Lake, Sumatra, Indoesia). We visited a town of the Batak tribe[^] they had a common house with a generator to give power to a huge TV (it might have been a projector, not 100% sure anymore) and a Satellite receiver with an antenna of 4 or 5 meters diameter.
Was a bit  moment to see the contrast.
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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Thanks!
I have been trying to translate this sentence from French to English "How far will they stop?" for years now!
But, thanks to you, now I know!
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