Hi Roger, The regular toolbars are embedded in the head of the document window in Word 2008, and they can be hidden by clicking the lozenge-shaped button in the upper right hand corner of the window. I suspect that's what happened here. Either that or someone had checked View>Full Screen. Both of those actions will hide the embedded toolbars.
I don't know why Paste Special was working erratically though. I haven't seen any reports of that till now. I've passed this on to MSFT and will let you know if I hear anything. -- Beth Rosengard Mac MVP Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html> My Site: <http://www.bethrosengard.com> On 2/11/08 9:32 AM, "Roger S. Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/>
