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IanSmith
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Minimise all windows

Post by IanSmith » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:37 am

Hi all,

I can't believe I haven't found this already, but I need to minimise all windows at the start of a script. I've tried WIN>2,* but it didn't like the wildcard for the window names.

Any comments would be appreciated :)

Thanks, Ian

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Post by support » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:50 am

You probably didn't find this when you tried searching the forums because it's written in American English:

http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... ze+windows
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Post by IanSmith » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:01 am

Thanks for that - ironically I remember discussing this at the time...

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Post by support » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:04 am

... Although we're in the UK we tend to spell stuff like that in American English as a) that's how it appears in Windows (even if you have UK English selected in Regional Options!) and b) the majority of our customers are in the USA after all ...
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Post by Me_again » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:07 pm

In my Concise Oxford Dictionary, published and purchased in the UK, "minimize" is the first listed spelling, and "ise" is an add-on :lol:

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Post by support » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:16 pm

Oh yes, you're absolutely right! Many of the ize or ise endings are interchangeable and not necessarily English or American. In fact a lot of the American spellings which some British say are wrong, are in fact the original English spelling and it is us Brits that have changed them over the years :-)
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