The panes on Office behave like a toolbar as far as docking, but they don't
take up the usual amount of horizontal space. See this
image http://marois-consulting.com/project/goal1.jpg

In VFP, if I made the pane a toobar and docked itm there would be an empty
horizontal space running across the upper area.

Not quite the same look.





>Base the pane on the Toolbar class instead of a container or form class. This will allow you to dock the pane, other forms will respect it territory.
>
>>If you have Office 2003, then you have seen the pane that appears to the
>>right of the Document/Workbook/Project, ect. I am designing a similar approach.
>>
>>My pane is a container added to _Screen at startup. Problem is, when windows are
>>then opened, it's possible to maximize the window over the pane.
>>
>>Here's my app before the window is maximized, and after
>>
>>In VFP, how do you keep a window from maximizing over the pane?
>>
>>Here's 2 shots of Excel doing what I want:
>>before
>>after

Everything makes sense in someone's mind
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