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Microsoft Word 2008 and Spaces

  • 02-04-2009 8:16pm
    #1
    Sad Professor
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    Christ, these two don't like each other, do they? Word wrecks absolute havoc with Spaces. Document windows keep jumping into other spaces and then crashing the Dock/Spaces/Dashboard when I try to move them back. Very annoying when you're trying get work done.

    Anyone else experienced this? Know of any fixes or workarounds?


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  • #2
    bluemachaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭bluemachaveli


    I had never noticed this before as i don't really use office that much! Just tested it there and same problems as you are reporting!

    Seems to be a known problem tho.

    Linky


  • #3
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    same problem every single day. I've never had a crash......just the annoyance of disappearing windows every so often and the formatting palette the odd time too!

    just for kicks.....open up console and have a look at the recurring Word errors going on in the background while it's running. Such a poorly coded POS!


  • #4
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Microsoft wrote:
    When you use Office 2008 for Mac with Mac OS X Spaces, the Office 2008 applications might not behave as expected. This is caused by the architectural implementation of Spaces in Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard). Apple is aware of this issue.
    *sigh*
    Usual bulls**t from MS. So that means no fix.


  • #5
    NiSmO
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  • #6
    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,423 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    Is your language set to irish? if it is you might have to change your input method to British...office is fun like that :(


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  • #7
    randombar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭randombar


    I'm using office '07 (maybe '08???) and I hate the bloody thing, to be honest on the PC there are a fair few improvements but the mac version is TERRIBLE, macros aren't working in excel, the top bars are just weird, anyone else think this??

    I'll test word and spaces when I get home!


  • #8
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Have you tried using OpenOffice instead?

    For most stuff should suffice.


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