Word resizes when closing other applications

[petersonpat]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

This is really starting to get to me, so here's the deal...
I've got two monitors set up for my system. the original macbook monitor and an external monitor. These are NOT set up to display mirror images. Rather I have extended my desktop viewing capabilities.

Now, when I have word open on my external monitor and I have another application open (lets use excel as an example), when I close or even minimize excel, the word document automatically resizes its-self to a much smaller window and moves to the macbook monitor. This is driving me nuts because I need to work quickly and this makes me slow down, move word back to its original position, and then have to expand the window again so I can actually view the doc.

I've looked all over "preferences" and "view" and can't seem to find anything that helps.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this???? please...

 

[John McGhie]

The only way you would fix that would be to roll back to OS 10.4.

Word was not built for OS 10.5 and it displays some disconcerting "features"
if you run it on 10.5. Which is why I don't...

Until Apple and Microsoft learn to play nice with each other, never take
your system up beyond the version of the OS that was PREVIOUS to the one
on-sale when the Microsoft application went on sale.

It takes at least 12 months to build and test a large-scale application such
as Microsoft Office. So ALL of the building and testing happened on the
PREVIOUS OS, 10.4. OS 10.5 was as much a surprise to Microsoft as it was to
the rest of the world. Microsoft first saw it about a month before Office
2008 shipped.

At that stage, a large software project is completely locked down -- no
meaningful changes will be made between then and the on-sale date.

After they released, Microsoft was then able to fully analyse OS 10.5, and
to make whatever changes were practicable to accommodate the new OS. At
that stage, they discovered they will need an architectural change to the
entire Word UI to fit with OS 10.5. You cannot make an architectural change
within a version (otherwise you break all the installed copies) so that will
never happen in Office 2008. Office 2010 will be a lot better.

So you guys complaining about how badly Word works for you, I feel for you.
I really do. I understand your frustration -- I am completely dependent on
Word to earn my living, so I know where you are coming from

But it's not going to be fixed. Please understand that, and make
appropriate arrangements!

On this MacBook, I have Word 2004, 2008, 2003, and 2007 installed. That's
what it takes to get my work done. I very rarely have to start either of
the PC versions. But I never get caught because I do not have them.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

This is really starting to get to me, so here's the deal...
I've got two monitors set up for my system. the original macbook monitor and
an external monitor. These are NOT set up to display mirror images. Rather I
have extended my desktop viewing capabilities.

Now, when I have word open on my external monitor and I have another
application open (lets use excel as an example), when I close or even minimize
excel, the word document automatically resizes its-self to a much smaller
window and moves to the macbook monitor. This is driving me nuts because I
need to work quickly and this makes me slow down, move word back to its
original position, and then have to expand the window again so I can actually
view the doc.

I've looked all over "preferences" and "view" and can't seem to find anything
that helps.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this???? please...

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Clive Huggan]

Or you could roll back to Word 2004.

For heavy users, Word 2004 was such an improvement on its successor. [Pace
E. Roper]

CH
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