There are a couple of things that annoy the hell out of me with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. I'm curious whether these are fixed in 2008.
- Office documents sometimes do not show up in the Recent Items list, even when they have been edited more recently than items that do show up. I haven't quite figured out the pattern as to why items are there sometimes, and other times not.
- If I put in the name of a spreadsheet in Spotlight, Excel will open whatever spreadsheet it wants. (I believe it's probably the last spreadsheet opened). The one I requested is opened also, but may not even be the top-most one.
- If I'm working attached to an external monitor, have a spreadsheet on that monitor, and then disconnect, the window for the spreadsheet doesn't return to the laptop display. It requires a series of non-obvious steps to 'recover' the window.
- Sometimes the spreadsheet window just ignores the resize corner, generally stuck in more-or-less full screen.
- When opening a spreadsheet, it doesn't restore to the size it was when it closed.
Remind me again why this sells for something like 4x the cost of iWork?
(Yeah, I know, I should just redo my files for Numbers and drop this garbage, and probably will do that eventually.)
- Office documents sometimes do not show up in the Recent Items list, even when they have been edited more recently than items that do show up. I haven't quite figured out the pattern as to why items are there sometimes, and other times not.
- If I put in the name of a spreadsheet in Spotlight, Excel will open whatever spreadsheet it wants. (I believe it's probably the last spreadsheet opened). The one I requested is opened also, but may not even be the top-most one.
- If I'm working attached to an external monitor, have a spreadsheet on that monitor, and then disconnect, the window for the spreadsheet doesn't return to the laptop display. It requires a series of non-obvious steps to 'recover' the window.
- Sometimes the spreadsheet window just ignores the resize corner, generally stuck in more-or-less full screen.
- When opening a spreadsheet, it doesn't restore to the size it was when it closed.
Remind me again why this sells for something like 4x the cost of iWork?
(Yeah, I know, I should just redo my files for Numbers and drop this garbage, and probably will do that eventually.)