Multiple Monitor support in 2008

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rediguana

Having recently installed Office 2008, I was just about to do some work in Excel with multiple spreadsheets. I have a dual monitor setup with the primary display being the 15 inches of my Powerbook G4, and a second display being a 17 inch external monitor.

I opened two files on my laptop display, and then went to move one to the 17 inch monitor. However, I was not able to move the file above approximately where the top of the laptop display is aligned to the external monitor. For some reason, Excel seems to be using screen extend information from the primary display and not allowing me to move the second spreadsheet around the full extent of the external monitor.

To reproduce, configure a Mac with a second monitor, and rather than having them with level tops, align them under System Preferences > Display > Arrangement so that the primary laptop screen starts halfway down the external screen. You will then find that you cannot drag the Excel window above the height of the primary display, which means that Excel is not usable on the second display.

I tested this theory by changing the display arrangements so that both screens are aligned, at it was much better, however I was still not able to move the Excel window to the top of the external window hitting an invisible barrier.

All other applications I use are well behaved with a second monitor. I also tested Word and it works fine - thereby implying that different windowing code has been used in Excel. Perhaps the Excel team should pinch the windowing code from Word ;)

Cheers Gav
 

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