I use MS Office 2003 & Windows XP SP2, and there seems to be no problems whatsoever here. What version of Office, Windows version and screen resolution do you use?

Everything works normally on my PC, except I can't set the screen resolution to 1280x800. Have you tried changing resolution to see if it's the same in other more common resolutions, like 1024x768 or 1280x960? Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but there will hopefully be someone else who can check this out on a similar laptop/monitor.

Sorry to say, but the problem has not gone away. More inspection shows that every time Word opens up a styles and formatting dialog, it shifts it down a few pixels (presumably to cascade open windows). So the dialogs march down the screen.

All other visual styles for windowblinds stop properly at the bottom of the screen, so I can still click the OK button, but the XP Corona style marches right off the bottom of the screen, until only half the OK button shows. It's like Windows thinks the bottom edge of the XP Corona style dialogs is 1/4 inch higher up than it really is.

I'm convinced it's something in the XP Corona style. I loaded it up and analyzed it with the analyze button, and it's full of errors. I tried Tools/Fix Errors, and that fixed some errors and left me with only a few serious errors (some things were missing). But there's a loooong list of Hints that look like errors in disguise.

So I guess my question is still open. Does anyone know what's different about XP Corona that would give it this weird behavior, and can anyone point me to a starting point to fix it? (As I said in my first post, maybe it has something to do with asymmetric borders around the window, like the tutorial said.)

Thanks

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that next. In the meantime, (not really knowing what I am doing), I ran the Tools / Correct Skin Errors option on the skin, deleted all the leftover hints, deleted attributes that looked like they shouldn't be there, used existing bitmap backgrounds for backgrounds that were missing, randomly used a "rollover" button to replace a missing image for Button4 (which says "system button" beside it), and changed the titlebar height? captionheight? from 23 to 46.

Now the successive word styles and formatting dialogs do not march downward any more. But they slowly march to the right, a few pixels at a time.

I'm guessing that maybe the captionheight being 23 told windows the dialog was shorter in height than it really was, so when I increased it to 46 (thank heavens for the SS error message), windows could calculate the proper height for the dialog window.

Now there must be some equivalent thing for the sideways motion. I'm not getting any skin error messages any more, so no more easy help from the system.. I looked at the window borders fields, and everything looks more or less symmetric except for the side margins. Left frame edge margins are ",,46,19" and right is ",,47,12". Could that be the problem? I don't know what the numbers mean.