Spaces problems

[JBB]

Spaces is virtually unusable with Office 2008. Docxs snap back instead of staying in assigned Spaces. Notebook views are a particular problem.

A serious disappointment...

 

[Steve Hodgson]

Spaces is virtually unusable with Office 2008. Docxs snap back instead
of staying in assigned Spaces. Notebook views are a particular problem.
A serious disappointment...

I'm coming to the same conclusion.
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Cheers,

Steve

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[Guest]

Posts at other sites suggest that Word 08 may have been designed without the ability to keep docxs in other spaces. If true, this is incredible! You could do that with Word 2004!

What is going on here?

 

[John McGhie]

What you are reading is about as true as anything else on the Internet ‹ not
very.

The truth is that Word 2008 was designed for an operating system that did
not have spaces. Software of this size is designed about two or three years
before we get to buy it.

Now that OS 10.5 has spaces, Apple and Microsoft have some work to do to get
it to operate correctly with Word. They are working on it. I guess one or
both of them will issue patches for this and a few other bugs.

Cheers

Posts at other sites suggest that Word 08 may have been designed without the
ability to keep docxs in other spaces. If true, this is incredible! You could
do that with Word 2004!

What is going on here?

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[John McGhie]

Yep: There's a few bugs in the mechanism. Microsoft and Apple are working
on the issue. I guess one or both of them will issue a patch.

It's fine in OS 10.4

I'm coming to the same conclusion.

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[Nick]

I am having many spaces issues as well. Notably, when I move a document to a new space, then close it, it snaps back to the other space from whence it came. I have also had occasions where it simply snaps to a different space without further provocation. Oddly, this feature worked (for the most part) fine in Office 2004.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Nick:

Yes. The bottom line is that Office 2004 is NOT compatible with Spaces
currently.

Office 2004 doesn't even know about them, but they seem to do it less
damage.

I believe there's a patch on the way for this issue.

Cheers

I am having many spaces issues as well. Notably, when I move a document to a
new space, then close it, it snaps back to the other space from whence it
came. I have also had occasions where it simply snaps to a different space
without further provocation. Oddly, this feature worked (for the most part)
fine in Office 2004.

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]