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Stuart Katz
I am running MS Office for Mac 2008 (12.2.4) on a 2008 Intel iMac with the
most recent version of Leopard OS. Since installing a recent upgrade to Mac
Office 2008, I have been having a frustrating problem when I keep multiple
documents open in Word. The active document will randomly be moved to the
background, while one of the inactive open documents will randomly move to
the foreground. Curiously, the inactive window now in the foreground
actually remains inactive, and if I continue typing, the text is placed in
the active window that is now hidden in the background. The only way to
bring the active document back to the foreground is to click the inactive
foreground window to make it active, and then click the formerly active
window in the background (or select if from the Window menu) to bring it
back to the foreground.
This happens at random but frequent intervals (every 10-60 seconds), so
essentially makes work with multiple document windows open impossible. I
have resorted to storing other open documents in the dock, but this slows
down my work flow when I am copying/pasting between documents.
I thought this could somehow be related to EndNote X1 CWYW plug in, but the
bizarre window behavior has persisted despite turning this EndNote feature
off and occurs even in documents that do not have imbedded citations. I have
no other third party plug-ins. I have purged Word preferences but the
problem persists.
I have searched MS website and the web and have not seen any other similar
complaints. Any suggestions on a fix would be greatly appreciated.
Stuart Katz
NYU School of Medicine
most recent version of Leopard OS. Since installing a recent upgrade to Mac
Office 2008, I have been having a frustrating problem when I keep multiple
documents open in Word. The active document will randomly be moved to the
background, while one of the inactive open documents will randomly move to
the foreground. Curiously, the inactive window now in the foreground
actually remains inactive, and if I continue typing, the text is placed in
the active window that is now hidden in the background. The only way to
bring the active document back to the foreground is to click the inactive
foreground window to make it active, and then click the formerly active
window in the background (or select if from the Window menu) to bring it
back to the foreground.
This happens at random but frequent intervals (every 10-60 seconds), so
essentially makes work with multiple document windows open impossible. I
have resorted to storing other open documents in the dock, but this slows
down my work flow when I am copying/pasting between documents.
I thought this could somehow be related to EndNote X1 CWYW plug in, but the
bizarre window behavior has persisted despite turning this EndNote feature
off and occurs even in documents that do not have imbedded citations. I have
no other third party plug-ins. I have purged Word preferences but the
problem persists.
I have searched MS website and the web and have not seen any other similar
complaints. Any suggestions on a fix would be greatly appreciated.
Stuart Katz
NYU School of Medicine