Document open all way across desktop instead of where saved.

What are the steps when the document that normally opens in the area you saved it on on the desktop, suddenly starts opening the entire way across the desktop including behind the columns of tool bars and links and pages, etc. and where you had saved your work space before?
So, the document suddenly opens the entire desktop instead of where you saved it (between the tool bar column which I have on the L and the column of links, pages, characters, paragraphs, etc.. which I have on the R). Thank you for help.

Hi. When I clicked on Application Frame, everything just shrunk, including it moved all my bars off the top and sides and made them smaller. So that didn't work.
There were some other steps when the program messed up and started putting the document you were working on all the way across the desktop instead of where you had saved it in your workspace area. And every time you shut out of InDesign and reopened it, it would do the same thing. Open the document all the way across the desktop instead of the working space you had saved it in = ?? Thanks again.

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I was warned of your problem by Jerrold.
As I'm really besy this evening, I didn't read carefully the available message.
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TinkerTool ( http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html )
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(path to library folder from user domain as text)
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--=====
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