Since the mailing list is slow, I'm posting this note about Word 2008 to the Entourage list, as I know the MS developers are reading it.
I tried MS Word 2008 in the Apple Store today. It was broken in some way on five different machines. On four of the five Macs, the View -> Toolbars... command did not work. I wanted to see the usual Toolbars, such as Standard and Formatting. Sometimes absolutely nothing happened. Sometimes, the Toolbar did not show, but the View -> Toolbars menu indicated that the Toolbars were showing (with a check mark), even though there was no Toolbar on screen. On one Mac, the Toolbars did show properly. On each of the Macs, the "Paste Special" command worked differently. Every time I tried the same experiments, copying formatted text from either a Word document or a web page, and then using Paste Special to paste without formatting, the Paste Special command resulted differently. Sometimes it pasted with formats, sometimes without, and sometimes it pasted some formats (like font), but not other formats (like font size). As someone who works on many long documents, with text coming from many different sources, Paste Special (no formats) is essential to me. I have a macro setup in Word 2004 (as I have had for something like 15 years), to make a toolbar button/keyboard command fire the Paste Special (no formats) command. To the MS developers: Please try working on a 200 page document, where you need to Paste Special (no formats) about 1000 times, being required to use cumbersome menus every time -- and having a different result each time. Perhaps that will give you inspiration to make the function work as expected, and to setup a method for firing it with one click and/or keyboard command. All five machines were new Macs, at the Apple Store, running OS 10.5.1. Since Apple "refreshes" the Macs every day with a "clean installation," I can presume that the problem was not some accumulated corruption in the demo Macs. I tried the experiments on a MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook, a Mac Pro, and an iMac. What a mess. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 -- 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/>
