MS Office desktop icons move after I modify and save them.

Anonymous
2010-02-25T23:36:10+00:00

My MS word and excel documents that I have on the upper right hand area of my desktop move after I modify and save them.  If I open them and don't save them nothing happens, but if I modify and save them, they move to the far left aligned with other icons.  They do not appear to be temp or hidden files.  They just move to the far left arranged with other icons.  I want to modify and save them and the files to stay in the upper right hand area...  Help???

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Anonymous
2010-02-26T17:12:02+00:00

Turn off the “Auto Arrange” option for icons on the desktop, and then place icons on the desktop where you want them.

To turnoff the “Auto Arrange” feature,

For windows 7:

Right click a blank area on the desktop and select View and uncheck Auto arrange icons.

For Windows XP:

Right-click a blank area on the desktop, and then click Arrange Icons. Click the command that indicates how you want to arrange the icons (by Name, by Type, and so on), uncheck Auto Arrange.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-10-07T19:04:36+00:00

    I have this same problem with all of my Windows7 Office 2007 machines.  It is really annoying.  The issue has nothing to do with "auto-arrange", "align by", or "sort".

    Microsoft office apps move their icons on save, all other apps save and retain their desktop position.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-10-04T08:46:34+00:00

    Still none of these make a difference and for me I have two machines running windows 7. only one has this problem and its annoying. only when modifying and saving a msoffice doc do they move

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-06-04T20:52:38+00:00

    On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:40:44 +0000, pyrluvr wrote:

    None of these suggestions work.  I recently received a Windows 7 machine at work, and every time I modify an excel or word document from my desktop it moves it to the right.  Very frustrating.  To save you plenty of time in asking "no" auto arrange is not checked, "no" auto grid is not checked.  I have been searching for a solution for over a week.  Also, I do not have the icons arranged, by Name, Type etc.... not a NOVICE user....  that is why this is frustrating in not finding a work around.

    If you perform a clean boot, does that make a difference?

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

    Gérard

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-06-04T19:40:44+00:00

    None of these suggestions work.  I recently received a Windows 7 machine at work, and every time I modify an excel or word document from my desktop it moves it to the right.  Very frustrating.  To save you plenty of time in asking "no" auto arrange is not checked, "no" auto grid is not checked.  I have been searching for a solution for over a week.  Also, I do not have the icons arranged, by Name, Type etc.... not a NOVICE user....  that is why this is frustrating in not finding a work around.

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