Word X buggy with large monitor?

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Andy - 22 Feb 2006 15:29 GMT

I recently bought a 19" monitor to hook up to my 12" PB. It seems that
Word X prefers a smaller screen. It won't let me resize a document to
fill the full vertical space, and when I open a doc, I get a blank area
at the bottom and have to shrink the size in order for the status bar
to appear. Also, I get more scrolling problems, the text will disappear
or start repeating.

Have others seen this problem, and is Office 2004 an improvement? I
really don't want to upgrade now, but just wondering.

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CyberTaz - 22 Feb 2006 16:00 GMT

About the most comprehensive & recent of numerous threads on the
problem is;

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_frm/threa
d/fec95d9e7d1f6548/801d02f46a259f6c?q=2+monitors&rnum=1#801d02f46a259f6c

IIRC, you can log out, add 2nd monitor, log in & launch Word to work
around the issue.

HTH |:>)

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Andy - 23 Feb 2006 01:48 GMT

Thanks, logging out seemed to work. Slightly inconvenient but I'm happy
there's at least a workaround.

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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] - 23 Feb 2006 12:23 GMT

Andy:

Grab Word 12 for the Mac when it comes out: it's guaranteed not to have this
issue :-) In the meantime, keep applying Apple updates. Apple has logged
this as partly a bug on their side, which means they may issue a fix for it
sometime.

Cheers

On 23/2/06 12:48 PM, in article
1140659326.799127.36200@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com, "Andy"
<akashdan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, logging out seemed to work. Slightly inconvenient but I'm happy
> there's at least a workaround.

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