good morning again ken,

thank you very much for your answer..

I'm glad to learn that you ""programmed it that way" and that it is not a "bug" on my system...

ok, so i selcted excel - word and powerpoint and when i clicked "activate screen split" i got the following error message:

the following application(s) could not be resized:
word, powerpoint

does this tell you anything?!

i'm using xp-pro, us-version and also office 2003, us-version...

best,
wolfgang