BUG IN MAC OFFICE WORD

[Damian (Personal Home)]

Guys.. A very silly design bug you may want to get out of the next
version...

Sometimes a window opens up with the title bar obscured by the main bar at
the top of the screen. Since you need to be able to click on the title bar
of a window to move it this makes it totally impossible to move the window.
When you close and re-open it pops up in the same place.

Really poor design.

Really.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Damian,

Microsoft employees do not usually check these newsgroups for bug reports;
you'd better use The Send Feedback on <name of application> inside the
concerned application's help menu.

However, the problem you are describing sounds quite familiar, and there is
a solution to it: if the document window does not open below the standard
toolbar, this means the toolbar has become undocked and is now considered a
*floating* toolbar by Word (or Excel or PowerPoint). Floating toolbars, as
the name already suggests, float over the document and as such do not
influence its position on screen. Here's what you need to do to turn it into
a docked toolbar again: at the very left end of the toolbar, you should see
some kind of grey border which also contains a red close button. Click on
the grey area, then move the toolbar around in the top left corner of your
screen until it snaps back into place. Your documents should now respect the
position of this toolbar when they are positioned on screen.

Guys.. A very silly design bug you may want to get out of the next version...

Sometimes a window opens up with the title bar obscured by the main bar at the
top of the screen. Since you need to be able to click on the title bar of a
window to move it this makes it totally impossible to move the window. When
you close and re-open it pops up in the same place.

Really poor design.

Really.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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[John McGhie]

I agree: It IS a really poor design However, Microsoft considers it a
"feature". It's the feature that enables the user to place toolbars
anywhere they like.

I would have added a couple of lines of code that said "... Except hidden
below the document!"

Cheers

Guys.. A very silly design bug you may want to get out of the next
version...

Sometimes a window opens up with the title bar obscured by the main bar at
the top of the screen. Since you need to be able to click on the title bar
of a window to move it this makes it totally impossible to move the window.
When you close and re-open it pops up in the same place.

Really poor design.

Really.

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[JE McGimpsey]

Guys.. A very silly design bug you may want to get out of the next
version...

MS has apparently heard you, and between now and Tuesday, your wish will
be implemented...

See

http://www.macoffice2008.com/

No worries about documents ever again slipping under the Standard
toolbars, at least...