Live word count and other info stopped working and disappearingcursor in 2008

[guanzhi]

The live word count is no longer showing the word count in the status
bar (it was working before). I can still get the word count from
Tools>Word Count. In addition the other information such as the
location of the cursor and the number of pages are not being shown.
Also, the cursor does not show unless I hit Return. What is going on?

 

[CyberTaz]

Live Word Count can be turned on in Word> Preferences> View but the other
information has been omitted in 2008. If you think you need it use Help>
Send Feedback & make your case to Microsoft.

As far as the hidden cursor I don't know what to tell you. I've seen some
complaints of the same thing but no actual solution.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Is Live Word Count turned on via Word | Preferences | View? (Is the
status bar turned on?)

What View are you using? Draft, Print Layout, etc?

Disappearing cursor has been reported by other people--try a search for
it, as I can't remember what was said.

 

[guanzhi]

IsLiveWordCountturned on viaWord| Preferences | View? (Is the
status bar turned on?)

What View are you using? Draft, Print Layout, etc?

Disappearing cursor has been reported by other people--try a search for
it, as I can't remember what was said.

I am using Print Layout but the problem occurs in all views. Both Live
Word Count and the status bar are turned on.

I have since accidentally stumbled on what might be causing the status
bar
problem and the disappearing cursor. When both problems happened, I
had
two word files open at the same time. One was a Japanese document I
was
translating and the other was my working document. However, the same
thing
happened when I had two English language documents open. I tried
closing
one document but it did not help. I then closed both and restarted
Word and
things were back to normal and have remained normal so far (keeping my
fingers crossed ). Now, when I have to have two Word documents open
at
the same time, I open the non-working document in Pages. This works
but
is not something one should have to do. I hope Microsoft is aware of
this
problem and will come out with a fix.

 

[CyberTaz]

That suggests that you have a lack of system resources available. Most
programs do automatically disable certain features (intentionally or
otherwise) if there isn't sufficient RAM and/or free disk space available to
support them. This is done in part to help prevent crashes or freezes which
could cause loss of data.

Another likely cause is that you start Word & let it continue running for
days on end. Severity varies with version, but that isn't a healthy
practice The programs & the Mac need to be restarted periodically in
order for certain "adjustments" to be made, and the longer the span between
restarts the more likely the sort of behaviors you describe.

 

[guanzhi]

That suggests that you have a lack of system resources available. Most
programs do automatically disable certain features (intentionally or
otherwise) if there isn't sufficient RAM and/or free disk space available to
support them. This is done in part to help prevent crashes or freezes which
could cause loss of data.

I have 2 GB of RAM and 33 GB of free HD space so a lack of
resources does not seem too likely.

In addition the activity monitor shows 90% or better free for the
CPU usage and 543 MB inactive system memory with all the
programs I normally keep open.

Another likely cause is that you start Word & let it continue running for
days on end. Severity varies with version, but that isn't a healthy
practice The programs & the Mac need to be restarted periodically in
order for certain "adjustments" to be made, and the longer the span between
restarts the more likely the sort of behaviors you describe.

How does this reconcile with the Unix requirement for the
system to be kept up to run the maintenance scripts?

 

[John McGhie]

How does this reconcile with the Unix requirement for the
system to be kept up to run the maintenance scripts?

It doesn't. If you reboot the system once a day, that will avoid a
selection of problems. This is a home computer full of consumer-grade
software we're talking about, not a mainframe

If you have correctly programmed your chron tasks, any that got missed will
run at startup.

Cheers

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[CyberTaz]

<snip>

How does this reconcile with the Unix requirement for the
system to be kept up to run the maintenance scripts?

<snip>

This isn't Unix, it's OS X - which is Unix-*based*. The 3 A.M. cron-romp
went out circa 10.2 (IIRC). The maintenance scripts run on startup as
needed.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Phillip Jones]

I don't know hat version of UNIX OSX is based on in X.5.

But up to .5 it was first based on BSD licensed from Berkly University.
Then later and up to and including x.4.11 its based on FreeBSD.

with the advent of Intel Macs I'm wondering whether they switched Xfree
based Unix (UNIX type that is used on PC's)

but OSX is a three layer system.

the GUI what you see is Apple's Mac style interface Mac users are used
to the second lay is or was FreeBSD Unix what the Mac Finder actually
manipulates and then at the core it has what is called a Mach or Mock
kernel. This was a system create after Jobs left Apple and started a
another project using Motorola based o40 processors I've forgotten what
the machines were named but the had one of the most tough and stable
Operating systems ever know they surpassed even UNIX or Linux for
stability and reliability. Since steve Jobs own the right to that
technology he used that as the center core of OSX's three layer Technology.

And as for UNIX power in you go into single User mode or use the Console
you can use any FreeBSD UNIX command you want. You even have the ability
to destroy the System if you don't know what your doing. Just like in UNIX

<snip>

<snip>

This isn't Unix, it's OS X - which is Unix-*based*. The 3 A.M. cron-romp
went out circa 10.2 (IIRC). The maintenance scripts run on startup as
needed.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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