Yes. In vX and later, a manual check will bring the progress window to the front (reasonable to many people, because they have asked for the check and want to see how it progresses). A scheduled check leaves the window in the background (if it was there to start with).
The behaviour was decided upon based on wide consultation with users & focus groups at the time. It was the compromise (since MS could not make everyone happy!) that left least people dissatisfied. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > From: "Michael J. Kobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:18:59 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Finally upgraded -- mostly good > > Yeah, I prefer to have it open so I can see when the app is checking. In > pre-Office-X days, the window stayed (as I recall) in its current layer when > you manually checked email, just like it does when mail is checked > automatically. > > Office X introduced the behavior of popping to the front, which I think has > some merit so you can more easily (for example) click the stop buttons. I > would just like for it to go away again. > > > > >> On or near 7/1/04 1:00 PM, Michael J. Kobb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> >>> I'll give that a try as a workaround, thanks! However, it's still not >>> desirable behavior. If the user manually invokes checking for mail, chances >>> are excellent that they'll want to do something useful with that mail should >>> it arrive. Having to click the window to do that useful something is an >>> inconvenience. >> >> I just close the progress window. Then, when I send and receive, no progress >> window pops up. If I want it, I type Cmd-7 and it appears. When I'm done, >> Cmd-W dismisses it. >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
