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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / February 2005Office 2004 - bug removal question
Two things are driving me nuts about my Office X: - When I command-tab out of Entourage, more often than not, the frontmost window gets sent to the back. This is terribly annoying because most of the time when I'm command-tabbing, I'm going to Finder to select a file I need to attach to an e-mail I've just written. - Office X won't let me put slashes in filenames and won't allow filenames longer than 31 characters. I'll refrain from snide remarks, but clearly, this is a bug, not a feature. Does anybody know if these items have been addressed in Office 2004? If not, there's really no reason for me to buy an upgrade. Thanks in advance for any insights, Marc > - When I command-tab out of Entourage, more often than not, the frontmost > window gets sent to the back. This is terribly annoying because most of the > time when I'm command-tabbing, I'm going to Finder to select a file I need > to attach to an e-mail I've just written. Why are you command-tabbing to do that? Entourage X doesn't bring up a window to browse for the desired file? Anyhow, I haven't noticed that problem in Entourage 2004, but I don't cmd-tab all that often, you might want to check on the entourage-specific group as well. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage > - Office X won't let me put slashes in filenames and won't allow filenames > longer than 31 characters. I'll refrain from snide remarks, but clearly, > this is a bug, not a feature. Office 2004 supports long filenames, over 31 characters. You still can't do slashes in filenames. Nor in TextWrangler, though you can in TextEdit. I think not supporting slashes in filenames is actually deliberate on the part of MacBU, rather than a bug that got overlooked.  SignatureDaiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/> What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Office 2004 supports long filenames, over 31 characters. You still can't do > slashes in filenames. Nor in TextWrangler, though you can in TextEdit. I > think not supporting slashes in filenames is actually deliberate on the part > of MacBU, rather than a bug that got overlooked. You're right, it's almost certainly deliberate, but I still consider it a bug since the application fails to recognizes certain characters the OS supports. From a user's viewpoint, if Finder allows a character, there's no reason any app shouldn't. But I'm glad they at least fixed the 31-character limit. Thanks for your insights - Marc On 25.02.05 8:40, in article BE44A2FF.53168%marc@G9.com, "Marc Wirbeleit" <marc@G9.com> wrote: >> Office 2004 supports long filenames, over 31 characters. You still can't do >> slashes in filenames. Nor in TextWrangler, though you can in TextEdit. I [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Marc Hi Marc. As you've already mentioned, one way to work around this problem is to rename the file in the Finder. I don't think that it's a bug, though, I think this is implemented since Mac Office is supposed to work as seamlessly as possible with Win Office, and as far as I know, slashes (in file names) are "forbidden characters" in Windows. Michel >> - When I command-tab out of Entourage, more often than not, the frontmost >> window gets sent to the back. This is terribly annoying because most of the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Why are you command-tabbing to do that? Entourage X doesn't bring up a > window to browse for the desired file? It does, but I'm a dragger, not a clicker. Plus, half the time, I don't even know which specific folder the file I need is in, but it's open on the desktop, so I tab, grab, tab back, let go. (Actually, that might be a great GUI feature: Add all or just the first three windows that are open on the desktop in the open... dialog.) > Anyhow, I haven't noticed that problem in Entourage 2004, but I don't > cmd-tab all that often, you might want to check on the entourage-specific > group as well. So, crossposting to microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage - has anybody encountered the above problem? Is it perhaps another undocumented feature that just _feels_ like a bug? Thanks in advance, Marc re: "I'm a dragger, not a clicker" Hopefully an occasional click is not too much of an inconvenience. If not, try this: When you Cmd+Tab, keep the Cmd key held down and click the Finder Icon with your mouse. The finder window will come to the front, but the email message window will stay in front of the Entourage app window so you can drag your intended attachment as you wish. Then just click the email widow to make it active again. HTH |:>) > - Office X won't let me put slashes in filenames Aren't slashes forbidden in filenames under MacOS X? The / character is the path separator under UNIX. Regards, Etienne > Aren't slashes forbidden in filenames under MacOS X? > The / character is the path separator under UNIX. Under MacOS, the slashes are allowed. They're actually converted to colons when the file is saved, but MacOS displays them as slashes. For instance, I created the text file slash/test.txt when I open the Terminal and do an ls, I see slash:test.txt IMO, even if it's allowed, it's bad practice to use the / character in a OS X filename. |
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