Stop Layout Options icon appearing by default on callouts in Word 2013 - ms-word

This is driving me mad! I love the new layout options in Word 2013, but when a callout gets to a certain size the icon for it obscures the end of the arrow, and you can't move the arrow:
Don't suppose anyone knows either how to get rid of the icon, how to click and drag on the yellow end of the arrow, or how to stop the icon appearing in the first place?
Thanks in advance.

Here are two answers that helped me. The second option gets rid of the floating Layout Options button, but at the cost of disabling some features of Word 2013.
First Option:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/any-way-to-disable-the-layout-options-button/47f6af4a-2acd-483e-a953-6415c8530554
It might help to increase the zoom (use the slider at the right end of the status bar) while you work with the picture.
Second Option:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/layout-options-icon-word-2013-suddenly-missing/ce304589-9db2-44c5-b1e1-8fd6596b70c4
Is the document in Compatibility Mode (shown by those words appearing in the title bar along with the document name)? If that's the case, click File and then click the Convert button. That will make the Layout Options button appear when a picture is selected, as well as turning on other features that are available only in the 2013 format. When you save, the document file will change to the .docx extension.
I know the second quote is about turning the Layout Options button on, but it works backwards, too. I saved my file as a *.doc instead of a *.docx and the floating button went away.
When you're finished editing your callouts, you can save it again as a *.docx.

One method that helped me was to flip horizontal, change the leader position, then flip back. That way the leader line is temporarily on the opposite side of the layout button, and both handles of the leader line are accessible, then can flip back. It is an extra step, but is another alternative.
In an attempt to automate this to quickly flip the object back and forth, I couldn't find a macro command to make a shortcut, or anything under Customize Ribbon with custom Keyboard Shortcuts to Flip Horizontal (MoreRotationOption opens up a dialog which does not give an option to flip).
The Flip Horizontal command could be called by pressing ALT JD (Format) AY (Rotate Objects) H (Horizontal) when the object is selected...
The best I could do was to add Rotate Objects to the Quick Access Toolbar, then the Flip Horizontal command could be called by pressing ALT # (whatever number you assign) H (Horizontal) which is three keystrokes.

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To zoom out, press Ctrl and click on it. While Ctrl is pressed, the cursor changes to a magnifying glass with a small "-".
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Here's an example of what it looks like when stacking two source files, just before the mouse button is released:
And here is what it looks like after releasing the mouse button:
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When you next open a file, it will be opened in the tab group of the currently selected source file. If you end up with a source file opened in the "wrong" tab group, just drag it to where you want it using the procedure above (allowing the orange box to outline the whole tab group area if you want to drop it in as a tab).
Additional screen shots for reference...
Reordering a tab within the same tab group:
Side-By-Side instead of stacked (two images):
Get as crazy as you want...
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At least in netbeans version 8.1, you can ctrl + i and write "move window".
This will allow you to move the window with the arrows, it is the same as some user posted before but using the keyboard instead of the mouse (I prefer keyboard for this kind of things while I am coding).

emacs: x-popup-menu max size constraints?

I'm working on an intellisense or code-completion capability for C#.
So far, so good. Right now I have basic completion working. There are 2 ways to request completion. The first cycles through all the potential matches. The second presents a popup menu of the matches. It works for types:
And also for local and instance variables:
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the popup menu can expand to consume all available screen space, when the number of choices is large. Literally it can consume the entire screen, and obscure everything else, including the entire emacs window and every other window.
The silly thing is, it's scrollable. First it expands to consume all available space, then it also becomes scrollable. Seems like it would make sense for it to expand to a certain point, and then become scrollable, rather than expanding to take all available space.
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If I knew how wide the popup would be before specifying the position, I could compensate. But I don't.
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Addendum: Doc for x-popup-menu
x-popup-menu is a built-in function in `C source code'.
(x-popup-menu POSITION MENU)
Pop up a deck-of-cards menu and return user's selection.
PO SITION is a position specification. This is either a mouse button
event or a list ((XOFFSET YOFFSET) WINDOW) where XOFFSET and YOFFSET
are positions in pixels from the top left corner of WINDOW's frame
(WINDOW may be a frame object instead of a window). This controls the
position of the center of the first line in the first pane of the
menu, not the top left of the menu as a whole. If POSITION is t, it
means to use the current mouse position.
Some people like Emacs because it doesn't provide popup windows (see e.g. this blog entry). The more "emacsy" way of presenting your list of possible completions is to show them in a split buffer. That way you would automatically avoid all of the above issues (screen real estate & scrolling) and would probably attract more of the die-hard Emacs users.
But that's pure speculation :-)
You can base your autocompletion backend on company or autocomplete where display of suggestions is handled for you.