Word, Excel, ... stay on top (Office 2003)

[Bart]

Hi,

I have a strange problem with Office 2003.

I have any Office 2003 app open. I open another app (non-
office), and a lot of times, that non-office app opens
behind the Office app. Even when I click on the non-office
app, it stays behind the office app. This doesn't happen
all the time, but enough to drive you crazy.
The only thing you can do is to minimize the office app
and then you can go ahead and work in the non-office app.

I have spoken with other Office 2003 users and they
experience the same problem. One user even wrote an e-mail
to Microsoft while she was on the beta program. She never
got a response, imagine that.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a fix
for it?

OS is Windows XP Sp1

Thanks,

Bart

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I have any Office 2003 app open. I open another app (non-
office), and a lot of times, that non-office app opens
behind the Office app. Even when I click on the non-office
app, it stays behind the office app. This doesn't happen
all the time, but enough to drive you crazy.
The only thing you can do is to minimize the office app
and then you can go ahead and work in the non-office app.

Focus issues like this are frequently due to anti-virus software. If running
Norton AntiVirus try disabling the Office plug-in. Also check any other
add-ins or services running.

I have spoken with other Office 2003 users and they
experience the same problem. One user even wrote an e-mail
to Microsoft while she was on the beta program. She never
got a response, imagine that.

If she didn't write to a specific person or through a channel that indicated
a reply was likely, then you are almost never going to get a response from
any large company. That's just a matter of logistics. The ratio of Microsoft
support personnel to customers would be running at the order of 1:10000.

--
Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq/

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