Scrolling problem using Word 2004 on 2nd monitor

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Oh, don't cut me ANY slack on this issue, Elliott

Yeah, as far as I am concerned, Microsoft is watching a deprecated event,
and they need to change that.

But from what I also know, "changing it" is a very large job. This flag
gets checked any time Word does anything that might affect the content of
the screen display. Since that is just about everything Word does, there's
a call to this flag just about every time Word does "anything".

Currently, Microsoft can legitimately claim that the Apple OS X
documentation says this flag "should be maintained current by the operating
system", and thus, it "should" work, even if it is the old way of doing
things.

In the meantime, making a change this fundamental to a program this complex
is "not" a trivial exercise. Microsoft Office is way more complex than OS
X: there are very few packages on the Mac that get to this level of
complexity. If you "make a small change" and *break* something, you can
live in VERY exciting times...

The whole of Office is in the process of a major re-write to move to
MacIntel and XML. This issue (and many others...) may be fixed in that
operation. On the other hand, if the choice we have is "Occasionally Word
munges its display on dual-monitor boxes" vs "Microsoft Office is not
available on MacIntel", I think I know which choice we would all make.

Cheers

Don't hold your breath. This *Word only* problem has survived in
various guises from the very first v.X which coincided with OS X
10.2.mumble and lives in in Word 2004
.

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10.3.0
10.3.1
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10.3.9
10.4.0
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10.4.4
Do you see a pattern?

I don't care how many times John McGhie says it's solely Apple's
problem, although recently he also sort-of admitted that MS *might*
have chosen to watch the wrong event and hadn't bothered to change to
the other one.

If there were just *one* other product that mucked up scrolling on the
second screen... I'd cut him some slack ;-)

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
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