Expose, Spaces and Multiple Displays don't function properly with Office 2008

[fmeggers]

When I hover my mouse over different documents open in Office 2008 they do not highlight correctly (i.e. wrong size highlight with no title) and with multiple documents open it often goes to the wrong document when selected.

In Spaces the Tool Palette doesn't show up and doesn't switch spaces correctly. Also documents don't remain in separate spaces from Word or Excel.

When Multiple Displays are used the window is often moved and resized improperly when using other display features.

Also, Word has crashed serveral times for me... more times than the alpha and beta versions of other software that I've tried... this is unacceptable and I'm considering reverting back to Office 2004 although it was prone to crashing as well.

 

[John McGhie]

Office 2008 is not compatible with Spaces. Unless you turn Spaces off, your
troubles will continue.

There is also a bug affecting behaviour in multiple monitors. We hope there
will be a fix for that in the Office 2008 Service Pack due out next week.

I have both Office 2004 and Office 2008 installed here. I use 2008 only for
answering questions in here.

If you do go back to 2004, let us know what your issues are. Maybe we can
help. It's pretty solid for me...

Cheers

When I hover my mouse over different documents open in Office 2008 they do not
highlight correctly (i.e. wrong size highlight with no title) and with
multiple documents open it often goes to the wrong document when selected.

In Spaces the Tool Palette doesn't show up and doesn't switch spaces
correctly. Also documents don't remain in separate spaces from Word or Excel.

When Multiple Displays are used the window is often moved and resized
improperly when using other display features.

Also, Word has crashed serveral times for me... more times than the alpha and
beta versions of other software that I've tried... this is unacceptable and
I'm considering reverting back to Office 2004 although it was prone to
crashing as well.

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[Pashboy]

Its not just the monitors and spaces its the basics of expose. None of the
documents are highlighted correctly with name of the document. Will you be
fixing this error and making it compatible with spaces?

Also do you think it may be possible to integrate some of the new touch
features available for apple laptops so you could zoom into your documents or
presentations using multi-touch?

 

[John McGhie]

No, I won't be fixing any issues The people in here are volunteers.
Users, just like you.

I understand that "Microsoft" has fixed the issue with Spaces (or at least,
knows how to do so...) but they are waiting for an Apple update to come out
before they can put it out.

The multi-touch stuff should all work when they get Word fixed. However, I
would encourage you to use Help>Send Feedback to tell Microsoft what you
want.

Be specific: exactly what you want. Say how you think others will use it
(they will ignore anything without a purpose) and say what proportion of
users you think will use it. Might be self-evident, but if you don't "say"
it, you can't complain when they don;t do what you want

Cheers

Its not just the monitors and spaces its the basics of expose. None of the
documents are highlighted correctly with name of the document. Will you be
fixing this error and making it compatible with spaces?

Also do you think it may be possible to integrate some of the new touch
features available for apple laptops so you could zoom into your documents or
presentations using multi-touch?

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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[sticklen]

Office 2008 is not compatible with Spaces.  Unless you turn Spaces off, your
troubles will continue.

There is also a bug affecting behaviour in multiple monitors.  We hope there
will be a fix for that in the Office 2008 Service Pack due out next week.

I have both Office 2004 and Office 2008 installed here.  I use 2008 onlyfor
answering questions in here.

If you do go back to 2004, let us know what your issues are.  Maybe we can
help.  It's pretty solid for me...

Cheers






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Please reply in the group.  Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltdhttp://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia.  S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50

This is really maddening. The whole reason I (a) uninstalled Office
2004 and (b) bought Office 2008 and (c) installed Office 2008 - is
because I wanted native OSX, and because I *thought* I would getting
something better.

Instead I have (a) something that is not compatible with one of the
best parts of Leopard (SPACES) and even if I disable SPACE, it still
won't work with my multiple monitors. AND on top of that - END NOTE
will not work the way its supposed to with WORD... Not to mention
EXCEL is totally hosed for any advanced computations - like those
dependent on the Solver.

Thank you very much MICROSOFT... I think I will just learn to live
only with Pages and NUmbers...

 

[IanF]

Looks like another reason for not upgrading to Office 2008 until
Microsoft gets on top of these problems.