Text format menu bar appears behind dock

Thanks for the reply Dansyacht.

If only it were that simple. The format menu bar sits towards the lefthand end of the dock with the top of it poking just above the shelf but below the top of the icons so it is not possible to grab it. However, if you move the dock elsewhere to reveal the bar and then try to drag it to where it would be visible above the dock it is immoveable. However, Mission Control will allow it to be moved from desktop to desktop where it just springs back to it's original position (but on a different desktop).

The bar is part of the TextEdit Save box. Try to save a TextEdit file and when the Save box comes up it is the icon towards the bottom of the box which says <"File format: " + the adjacent menu bar>.

It is as though a mutant clone of the Save box icon has escaped in order to rise above its station to try to become a Dock icon. Sweet but very annoying.

I very much doubt that this is a problem with Mission Control. I only mentioned it to illustrate what happens when you use MC to get to the icon to try to move it. The same effect of the icon springing back to its original position occurs within the same desktop if the dock is moved to the left or right hand sides of the screen to enable one to see to grab the icon.

After my last reply I tried quitting TextEdit, removing it from the Dock and then reloading it. For a time this solved the problem but, this morning, the icon is back where it was.

Dansyacht,

Thanks for taking the time out to respond.

In the first screenshot I have outlined the rogue Save box icon(s) in red:

And below it is shown appearing on the desktop under Mission Control format. The icon which previously was hiding behind the left end of the dock (see final screenshot) moves across the screen and attaches itself to the top of the TextEdit window but, then, when I move the TextEdit window the icon shoots to the bottom left of the Mission Control screen. I cannot take a screenshot of this because when the mouse button is released the TextEdit window moves back to its original position and the icon shoots back to re-attach itself to the top of the TextEdit window. This is true of any windows you try to move while under Mission Control mode - but without a rogue icon. It is rather similar to the way each open window which appears in Mission Control has its dock icon attached to its base - except the rogue icon attaches itself to the top of the TextEdit window.

And here it is finally shown arrowed hiding in its normal position behind the dock:

Thanks Macjack,

Your advice seems to have worked.

Yes - my thanks to Dansyacht as well.