It is intended to reduce screen clutter, but is not compulsory - in Word you
can turn it off from tools customize Options Always show full menus.
Similarly you can turn it off in other apps, such as IE.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




maduser wrote:
This new "innovation" that Microsoft has incorporated into its
products, whereby you have to click twice to see an entire pull-down
menu, is ridiculous. Show me the entire thing at once, without my
having to click on another down arrow to see the bottom half of the
pull down menu.