The "OPEN" window is now full screen
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I don’t know how I did it but I cannot adjust it back to it’s small size.
I cannot adjust it like a normal W10 window. If I hit “?” it takes me to information about File Explorer. I can it be shrunk? It happens wither I use Ctrl+O or the drop down File submenu. -
I assume you are seeing a dialog like:
If so, then the little dotted triangle handle in the lower-right is the resize grabber; click and drag on that to resize the window.
The dialog I showed is the standard Windows Open dialog, and works the same way across any Windows application that doesn’t code its own Open dialog.
If, instead, it looks like:
… that means you are in a version of Notepad++ that still allows you to use the “old style” dialog, which hasn’t been supported/recommended by Windows since Win7 was released. (Notepad++ v7.9.3 no longer allows that old version.) But even if you are using the old-style dialog, it still has the triangle for resizing.If you cannot see the triangle, try moving the Open window up/left until you can see that lower-right corner. (If you cannot reach the title bar to drag it, hit
Alt+Spacebar, thenM(assuming you are in English and the Move command starts withM), then use the arrow keys to move the window around until you can see the lower right. Or, really,Alt+Spacebarto get that menu,Sfor Size (again, in English), then hit the right and down arrows to pick the lower-right corner, and then use up and left arrows to shrink the window -
Thanks for your reply. I cannot see the triangle in the lower right corner . Alt+spacebar opens the window, didn’t know about this, and Restore shrinks it. None of the other options did anything.
I’m running v7.9.3 (32bit) on W10
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@Bruce-Coyne said in The "OPEN" window is now full screen:
Alt+spacebar opens the window
Yes, this is a good approach as well. Here’s what one sees when you do this:
Choosing Size and then using arrow keys will allow reducing of a full-screen Open dialog.
