MS Windows goes sideways.

Uncle_Steve · Post by **Uncle_Steve** » 22 Feb 2008, 12:19

Hi guys, tough one for you today, one of my clients called in just now and says that she was working on a spreadsheet in Excel 2003, she was highlighting more then one cell at the same time, so she was pressing ctrl & alt (according to her) and apparently her screen orientation has changed and everything is now on the left/right of her screen! I have never heard of this and it's confusing me. Can anyone out there help? Apparently even the text runs vertically now instead of the usual horizontal way.....Damn....

Cheers

po10cy · Post by **po10cy** » 22 Feb 2008, 12:33

she pressed a hot key to change the display direction, she obviously has a graphics card installed. she needs to go into her gfx cards settings, as im not sure of the actual shortcut key, and change it there.

the reason for this is, for those who twist their monitors to look like a a4 page infront of them instead of one lying on its side, if you get how i mean.

Hman · Post by **Hman** » 22 Feb 2008, 12:36

Yeah, what po10cy said

po10cy · Post by **po10cy** » 22 Feb 2008, 12:41

Syndicate · Post by **Syndicate** » 22 Feb 2008, 12:54

Press CTRL + ALT + "Arrow key down", this will turn the screen to the correct position, then after that disable the hotkeys under the gfx properties.

Uncle_Steve · Post by **Uncle_Steve** » 22 Feb 2008, 13:43

Thanks guys, your tricks worked.

Cupis · Post by **Cupis** » 22 Feb 2008, 14:06

hehe this actually happened just the other day at my offices, funny to hear how the users try explain it

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » 22 Feb 2008, 19:02

mmm let me guess intel graphics with a tray icon?