Clicking onto Scroll Bar from Outside Application

[exiled2tx]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

This looks to be a minor bug but bothers me.

Lets say application #1 is open with a window on the screen. If I'm in application #2 (or even the Finder), if I click on the vertical scroll bar of app 1, then I move into app 1 and I'm ready to scroll up and down if I want.

Excel sort of works like this.Unlike most applications, which just grays the vertical scroll bar, Excel has it disappear. But if you click right on the edge, the vertical scroll bar reappears and you are in Excel.

Most (all?) other Mac applications have it if you click on the grayed out vertical scroll bar, you are in the application.

Now we come to Word: if I move the mouse and click on the grayed out vertical scroll bar, nothing happens. I actually need to click in the body of the document to move back to the Word application and then I can move back to the scroll bar.

Not a large bug as bugs go but a definite nuisance.

 

[John McGhie]

I think you are running Spaces or Expose.

Office 2008 is not compatible with either. This is what happens.

We are waiting on a fix.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

This looks to be a minor bug but bothers me.

Lets say application #1 is open with a window on the screen. If I'm in
application #2 (or even the Finder), if I click on the vertical scroll bar of
app 1, then I move into app 1 and I'm ready to scroll up and down if I want.

Excel sort of works like this.Unlike most applications, which just grays the
vertical scroll bar, Excel has it disappear. But if you click right on the
edge, the vertical scroll bar reappears and you are in Excel.

Most (all?) other Mac applications have it if you click on the grayed out
vertical scroll bar, you are in the application.

Now we come to Word: if I move the mouse and click on the grayed out vertical
scroll bar, nothing happens. I actually need to click in the body of the
document to move back to the Word application and then I can move back to the
scroll bar.

Not a large bug as bugs go but a definite nuisance.

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[CyberTaz]

Nope - I've confirmed it on my G5 running 10.4.11, so no possibility of
Spaces & I'm not using Expose. If Word is behind another window & you click
the Vertical scroll bar Word just *doesn't* come to the front. However, my
results indicate that you needn't click in the doc itself - any other part
of the window wll bring Word to the fore. The window is basically dead from
the Split control down to - but not including - the upper Select Browse
Object arrows. The Horizontal scroll bar is the same way.

Oddly enough, in playing around with this I found that when Excel is in the
background its scroll bars aren't even visible. However, if you click where
they're *supposed* to be it comes to the front.

I'll bug it a bit later on.