File Open dialog title broken

[tbone]

I've seen this problem on several systems, including my own.

With Office 2003 installed, the standard Windows File Open/Save dialog
box is apparently replaced with an Office enhanced dialog. The problem
is that the title bar contains only a single character - what looks
like the first character of what the title should be.

This is also apparent in Excel VBA, using Application.GetOpenFilename,
where you can specify the dialog title that you want. Only the first
character is displayed.

I've googled for this several times and came up empty-handed.

Any ideas?

Thanks
tbone

[Alan Edwards]

This old response may or may not be relevant but it can't do any harm.

Title Bar Truncation
Title bar may contain garbage characters
Title bar truncated to 1 character.

Do you have the Google Desktop bar installed?
If so, try uninstalling/reinstalling it.
It has been reported to sometimes produce truncation of the title bar
text.

...Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm



On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:04:19 -0500, in microsoft.public.office.misc,

Post by tbone
I've seen this problem on several systems, including my own.
With Office 2003 installed, the standard Windows File Open/Save dialog
box is apparently replaced with an Office enhanced dialog. The problem
is that the title bar contains only a single character - what looks
like the first character of what the title should be.
This is also apparent in Excel VBA, using Application.GetOpenFilename,
where you can specify the dialog title that you want. Only the first
character is displayed.
I've googled for this several times and came up empty-handed.
Any ideas?
Thanks
tbone

[tbone]

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:26:40 +1100, Alan Edwards

Post by Alan Edwards
Do you have the Google Desktop bar installed?

I don't have the Google Desktop bar installed, but I checked and found
that I had the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer installed. Since I
rarely use IE, I didn't realize this was installed, so no problem
uninstalling it. However, it didn't seem to help (although I haven't
rebooted yet - probably tomorrow).

I use a couple of Yahoo widgets...although I think this problem
existed before I started using them. I may try that next.

thx
tbone

[tbone]

Post by tbone
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:26:40 +1100, Alan Edwards

Post by Alan Edwards
Do you have the Google Desktop bar installed?

Thanks for your hint - I found what was causing it.

I use a little utility program called "Dialog Helper", which adds
recall buttons to the title bar of file open dialogs. I've been using
it so long, I forgot about it. This was causing the problem.

I have added exceptions so that it avoids appearing on Office open
dialogs.

Thanks for steering me in the right direction!

tbone