Office 2008 and Exposé

[mcic]

I am having some funny issues with Office 2008 and Exposé in Leopard.

In Exposé, when the mouse pointer is hovering above a window, the window will be highlighted and in the middle, it will display the title of the page (e.g. if I was viewing this "ask a new question" page in Safari while in Exposé, it will have a title "Office for Mac Office").

However, Word doesn't highlight itself in Exposé, though it goes to Word when I click it... Why is this? Are there compatibility issues here?

 

[pbendevis]

I am having some funny issues with Office 2008 and Exposé in Leopard.
In Exposé, when the mouse pointer is hovering above a window, the windowwill be highlighted and in the middle, it will display the title of the page (e.g. if I was viewing this "ask a new question" page in Safari while in Exposé, it will have a title "Office for Mac Office").
However, Word doesn't highlight itself in Exposé, though it goes to Wordwhen I click it... Why is this? Are there compatibility issues here?

I get the same thing! Hopefully M$ releases an update!!

 

[mcic]

I should add - it seems to happen only in Word 2008, not Excel, PowerPoint or Entourage.

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, there are a few compatibility issues with OS 10.5 and Office 2004.

Updates are expected, from Apple and Microsoft, to address them.

Cheers

I should add - it seems to happen only in Word 2008, not Excel, PowerPoint or
Entourage.

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[mcic]

John - thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I am getting this problem on Office *2008*, the latest version released earlier this week, not Office 2004.

Word and Expose doesn't seem to be compatible, but Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage all work fine.

 

[Curt Laird]

Hi,
This is a known issue and we are working to address it.

Thanks,

Curt


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[mcic]

Thank you Curt for your reply. Look forward to an update some time!

 

[Guest]

I'm getting the same problem--I'm running the OS Tiger 10.4.11 and the expose problem only happens with Word 2008, not Powerpoint or Excel.

 

[drhone]

Hi,
This is a known issue and we are working to address it.

Thanks,

Curt

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Is there a time frame where you expect this fix for Expose to occur.
I am a heavy Word user like millions of others and this would be
greatly appreciated after spending so much money on office 2008!

 

[John McGhie]

Microsoft is unlikely to answer your question. Public Corporations in the
USA can get themselves into almost all the trouble there Is, by making
"future-looking" statements.

The rest of us are only guessing. "My" guess is that we'll get a fix for
many of the issues we are seeing within one to three months.

The Expose issue and the Spaces issues may take a little longer, because
they are also dependent on work being done on the Apple side. I am assuming
that Microsoft won't be able to finalise their fix until Apple releases
theirs.

Hope this helps

Is there a time frame where you expect this fix for Expose to occur.
I am a heavy Word user like millions of others and this would be
greatly appreciated after spending so much money on office 2008!

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[Philip Nelson]

noticed the same thing but with spaces if u switch spaces it glitches out and everytime u click a document it disappers

 

[Gary]

I have the same problem with Office 2008 and Spaces - almost to the point where I'll need to turn Spaces off - which is a pity.

 

[eurovirus]

Hey folks,

let me just add that the update didn't do anything about this issue... Btw: did you notice any change in stability and speed (because I didn't)?

Regards,
Alex
Duesseldorf, Germany

 

[John McGhie]

Yes. Sorry, "next time".

The list of fixes is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/948057

Hey folks,

let me just add that the update didn't do anything about this issue... Btw:
did you notice any change in stability and speed (because I didn't)?

Regards,
Alex
Duesseldorf, Germany

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[Brian]

Yes.  Sorry, "next time".

The list of fixes is here:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/948057





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This thread was informative - glad there are some people working on
this. Considering expose is such a widely used osx feature i would
hope microsoft wouldn't be mañana about it...right?

Brian
College Student

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Brian:

Well, I don't want to ruin your day, but I doubt if Expose is right up there
on the priority list

I haven't used it yet, and it's been three years

For me, the issue is that it conflicts with two of the three function keys I
use constantly.

Cheers

This thread was informative - glad there are some people working on
this. Considering expose is such a widely used osx feature i would
hope microsoft wouldn't be mañana about it...right?

Brian
College Student

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Brian:

Well, I don't want to ruin your day, but I doubt if Expose is right up there
on the priority list

I haven't used it yet, and it's been three years

For me, the issue is that it conflicts with two of the three function keys I
use constantly.

John, seriously. You can re-assign the function keys for Expose.

Actually, I don't use it either--it's either too easily to annoyingly
trigger accidentally, or too hard to remember what I set as the
triggers. But that's not an issue with Expose, I just don't have it set
up right.

 

[nonamejet]

John, seriously. You can re-assign the function keys for Expose.

Actually, I don't use it either--it's either too easily to annoyingly
trigger accidentally, or too hard to remember what I set as the
triggers. But that's not an issue with Expose, I just don't have it set
up right.

Hi is there any update on this issue?