If possible, get the powers that be on your project to provide you with two monitors (preferably flat-screen and of the same size), and use the dual monitor features of Windows. You can then stretch Visual Studio to display the Orchestration Designer over two windows, rather than one. Not perfect, but certainly a help. All BTS 2004 developers should be issued with two monitors as a matter of course!
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