Form ruler behave strangely

[Arena]

This is sort of a bug that renders Excel unusable. You can reproduce the bug in very few steps.

Open a blank sheet
Show the form toolbar
Create a horizontal or vertical ruler
Now try to click on the directional arrows of the ruler, or anywhere on the ruler...

You'll see your ruler suddenly move upward while you click on it, so you can't reach the arrows. Well you can, but it's painfull.

Hope they find a fix for it since it's a function I greatly appreciate to study the variation of some graphics depending of inputs I play with using these rulers...

 

[JE McGimpsey]

This is sort of a bug that renders Excel unusable. You can reproduce the bug
in very few steps. <br><br>Open a blank sheet <br>
Show the form toolbar <br>
Create a horizontal or vertical ruler <br>
Now try to click on the directional arrows of the ruler, or anywhere on the
ruler... <br><br>You'll see your ruler suddenly move upward while you click
on it, so you can't reach the arrows. Well you can, but it's painfull.
<br><br>Hope they find a fix for it since it's a function I greatly
appreciate to study the variation of some graphics depending of inputs I play
with using these rulers...

What version of XL and Mac OS X? Does it happen in all/both Views?

I can't reproduce this in either XL04 or XL08 because I don't know what
you mean by a horizontal or vertical "ruler". There's nothing on the
Forms toolbar that produces anything with that name (at least in
English)...

The only Ruler I know is the one that can be displayed in Page Layout
view using View/Ruler (and both horizontal and vertical rulers are
visible, or neither are).

If you're talking about lines from the Drawing Toolbar, I also can't
make them move the way you describe in either XL04 or XL08.

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

What version of XL and Mac OS X? Does it happen in all/both Views?

I can't reproduce this in either XL04 or XL08 because I don't know what
you mean by a horizontal or vertical "ruler". There's nothing on the
Forms toolbar that produces anything with that name (at least in
English)...

The only Ruler I know is the one that can be displayed in Page Layout
view using View/Ruler (and both horizontal and vertical rulers are
visible, or neither are).

If you're talking about lines from the Drawing Toolbar, I also can't
make them move the way you describe in either XL04 or XL08.

JE, Try it with the spin control. I'm seeing something pretty funny
(strange- not at all funny).

 

[JE McGimpsey]

JE, Try it with the spin control. I'm seeing something pretty funny
(strange- not at all funny).

OK, I see a *WHOLE* lot funky going on with forms controls - ironically
the one control that seems to act normally for me is the spin control...

I see the jumping with the Scroll Bar control, but lots of other weird
behavior too.

I'll submit a bug.

 

[Arena]

@JE McGimpsey : I'm using Excel 2008 on Leopard. It's localized in french and it's called "barre de défilement" which I translated to "ruler".

It's one of the two icons with arrows pointing upward and downward (in the form toolbar). I believe one is the spin mentionned by Bob Greenblatt (only two arrows) and the one I'm talking about is the other one... now if someone could give me the english name of it that would clarify it a lot for all of us

And I indeed forgot to mention it's something you can reproduce both in the layout and normal views.

That said, Bob Greenblatt seems to have experienced what I'm talking about.
I don't recall having ever had this problem with Excel 2004.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

@JE McGimpsey : I'm using Excel 2008 on Leopard. It's localized in french and
it's called "barre de défilement" which I translated to "ruler". <br><br>It's
one of the two icons with arrows pointing upward and downward (in the form
toolbar). I believe one is the spin mentionned by Bob Greenblatt (only two
arrows) and the one I'm talking about is the other one... now if someone
could give me the english name of it that would clarify it a lot for all of
us <br><br>And I indeed forgot to mention it's something you can reproduce
both in the layout and normal views. <br><br>That said, Bob Greenblatt seems
to have experienced what I'm talking about. <br>
I don't recall having ever had this problem with Excel 2004.

It's a new bug in XL08. The control is called the Scroll Bar in English
versions.

I've submitted a bug report, but I strongly urge you to use Help/Send
Feedback to let MacBU know you want this fixed!

 

[Arena]

Thanks for the advice but I already used the feedback button to post it before posting here.
I was just wondering if it was just me or a know bug.