New windowed spreadsheets drift across the page to the right and down. Can we stop this somewhere?

[bigfootnlc]

Greetings:

I work with two monitors and place windowed spreadsheets on the right-hand side of the left-hand monitor. When I open a new spreadsheet it is shifted to the right and down a little. This winds up drifting across the divide, onto the right-hand monitor. Is there an option somewhere to stop this, such that each newly opened copy of Calc opens in exactly the same place, right on top of the previous one?

I asked about this on a Microsoft support site, thinking it was a Windows 10 thing, but users pointed out that it has to be a programmatic issue because Microsoft applications, like Notepad or Wordpad, open right on top of each other, no drift.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thank you!

[EarnestAl]

Press WindowsKey+E 3 times in a row and you get staggered windows for File Explorer. Word 2010 also staggers down the screen.
There used to be a setting in Windows to change this but I can’t find it now, maybe it was an ancient version of Power Tools.

Microsoft Power Toys Microsoft PowerToys | Microsoft Docs , the FancyZones, PowerToys FancyZones utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs, seems to be the tool in Power Toys

[Edit] bug tdf#41777 might be related

[mikekaganski]

Yes, it’s Windows’ default behavior: unless the created window defines the position explicitly, there’s a magic in Windows itself to define its position (see CW_USEDEFAULT value for x and y arguments in CreateWindow). And that is the sane thing in general; there’s some incentive (e.g., the bug you mentioned) to make existing documents to remember their positions, but generally new windows are offset by the system to allow user see that there are new windows, and to allow to point-and-click on them right away.