I've also just come across this issue, and this link appears to provide the solution. It looks like a pretty convoluted process, and I've not yet tested it, but... it might be worth a go for any users who find this annoying [ie, pretty much everyone].
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Office 2008 bugs/features/annoyances
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I've also just come across this issue, and this link appears to provide the solution. It looks like a pretty convoluted process, and I've not yet tested it, but... it might be worth a go for any users who find this annoying [ie, pretty much everyone].
Powerpoint 2008 complaint:
i've been trying to figure out how to change the slide dimensions/resolution for my presentations to a widescreen format instead of the default size. i haven't found it anywhere. keynote kicks powerpoint's a$$ but, since keynote is only for mac and the powerpoint export loses much of the transitions/animations/etc. i am forced to use microsuck 🙁 and i can't find out where to change the presentation dimensions anywhere...my workaround is setting up the presentation dimensions in keynote and exporting that to ppt...then opening/editing in powerpoint. the most frustrating part i'm at now...is if you have done this and after you're finished designing the entire presentation you do not have any way to change the presentation dimensions like you can in keynote.
if anyone knows how to do this...i'd really appreciate it.
i've been trying to figure out how to change the slide dimensions/resolution for my presentations to a widescreen format instead of the default size. i haven't found it anywhere. keynote kicks powerpoint's a$$ but, since keynote is only for mac and the powerpoint export loses much of the transitions/animations/etc. i am forced to use microsuck 🙁 and i can't find out where to change the presentation dimensions anywhere...my workaround is setting up the presentation dimensions in keynote and exporting that to ppt...then opening/editing in powerpoint. the most frustrating part i'm at now...is if you have done this and after you're finished designing the entire presentation you do not have any way to change the presentation dimensions like you can in keynote.
if anyone knows how to do this...i'd really appreciate it.
This was definitely the most annoying thing I noticed. It defaults to a 10pt space between paragraphs. I frequently use the 'notepad' view, since my main use for Word is taking notes in classes. This drove me crazy, as every time I pressed enter, I would get a double space.
Not only that, but to change it, I would have to switch to the standard document view, since the 'Paragraph/Spacing' settings are not accessible while in the notebook layout. Even if I selected all and then went in to the paragraph settings to fix it, it would work once, and then would continue double spacing again.
I finally realized that I had to go into the standard view, open the toolbox and go to 'styles', and 'modify style' on each note level in order to eliminate the 10pt spacing after a return.
It also crashes frequently when switching from 'print layout view' to 'notebook layout view'.
My biggest complaint with the new Word is definitely the major pain that the spacing defaults have caused.
My biggest gripes are with conditional formating in Excel. First off, the colors available for conditionally formatted cells are not the same colors as are available for highlighting cells, so you have to go into preferences and change the default colors all around just to get them to match up. And of course when you change a color is goofs up every other spreadsheet file, even though the options window says the color changes will only apply to the open workbook.
And overall conditional formating stinks, from a formula standpoint. Much, much easier to create and manage rules on the PC version.
And overall conditional formating stinks, from a formula standpoint. Much, much easier to create and manage rules on the PC version.
ms office email problems
I send about 200 word '.doc' newsletters each month via Entourage. Since switching to 2008, the # of 'can't opens' or 'did not receives' has increased substantially. The .docx format won't go, but even changing to .doc (compatibility mode) is not working in too many cases.
Has anyone tweaked their Word//entourage to improve this?
YePans
I send about 200 word '.doc' newsletters each month via Entourage. Since switching to 2008, the # of 'can't opens' or 'did not receives' has increased substantially. The .docx format won't go, but even changing to .doc (compatibility mode) is not working in too many cases.
Has anyone tweaked their Word//entourage to improve this?
YePans
Double spacing between paragraphs
[You can go to Word>preferences>compatibility and check the box
'don't add leading (extra space) between rows of text. Click on Default.
[You can go to Word>preferences>compatibility and check the box
'don't add leading (extra space) between rows of text. Click on Default.
Still laggy text? I have a copy of the student and teacher edition, and I am wondering if it is worth it to even both installing it on a 2.33ghz iMac, 2.4ghz MBP, and 2.16ghz MacBook. They all have 2004 installed now.
This is the most frustrating piece of GARBAGE I've ever used.
I can literally type 2 to 3 sentences before it displays it on a newly launched word session.
I'M ON A 2.8GHZ MAC PRO QUAD WITH 4 GIGS OF RAM AND NO OTHER APPS OPEN.
And Microsoft wonders why people hate them so much.
And yes, I've rebuilt the database and also turned of WYSIWYG fonts.
NO HELP.
ARGHHHH!
FREAKING Word v.X doesn't do this even through ROSETTA!
😱
I can literally type 2 to 3 sentences before it displays it on a newly launched word session.
I'M ON A 2.8GHZ MAC PRO QUAD WITH 4 GIGS OF RAM AND NO OTHER APPS OPEN.
And Microsoft wonders why people hate them so much.
And yes, I've rebuilt the database and also turned of WYSIWYG fonts.
NO HELP.
ARGHHHH!
FREAKING Word v.X doesn't do this even through ROSETTA!
😱
GGJstudios
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entourage invites with gmail and exchange
I use my Gmail account in an Exchange environment. Whenever I receive an invite, it goes into my "on the computer calendar", and not the "Exchange calendar". I have to manually move the appointment every time.
It makes no difference which account is default, Gmail or Exchange. Anyone else have a problem with invites?
Thanks,
Todd
I use my Gmail account in an Exchange environment. Whenever I receive an invite, it goes into my "on the computer calendar", and not the "Exchange calendar". I have to manually move the appointment every time.
It makes no difference which account is default, Gmail or Exchange. Anyone else have a problem with invites?
Thanks,
Todd
Likely you have some other problem. I'm a reasonably fast typist and don't see any delays in Word 2008 on this MacBook (2GHz, 2 GB RAM).
I did downgrade from 12.1 to 12.0.1 due to the file opening issue.
Phil
I think this is part of the spaces issue, where Word 2008 randomly jumps from space to space. I just found that you can "fix" both this and the jumping spaces issue if you assign word to "all spaces" in the spaces preferences.
I have the same computer as GotPro with the extra ram as well and the lag typing in excel is so bad it seems like a cruel joke MS is playing on mac users.
nsbio
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Word 2008 is about the worst piece of garbage one can install on a Mac. At least on a PPC Mac. It is ridiculously slow to start up (what processes can possibly take that long to start a frigging TYPING program???? This is XXI century, computers are supposed to be getting faster, not slower!!!). Plus, it crashes way too often, even after all the updates.
Excel 2008 has a nice feature that removes the previous versions' limitations of the number of items in a spreadsheet (for working with microarrays it is kind of important).
Power Point 2008 has a slide preview feature, which brings it to some semblance of the much better PC version of the Office.
Word 2008 is the best advertisement for iWork 08. That says a lot, because the latter is far from ideal, but nowhere near the "garbageness" of the word 2008.
I am reverting to using a combination of Office 04 +iWork and removing this 08 garbage from my system.
Word 2008 is about the worst piece of garbage one can install on a Mac. At least on a PPC Mac. It is ridiculously slow to start up (what processes can possibly take that long to start a frigging TYPING program???? This is XXI century, computers are supposed to be getting faster, not slower!!!). Plus, it crashes way too often, even after all the updates.
Excel 2008 has a nice feature that removes the previous versions' limitations of the number of items in a spreadsheet (for working with microarrays it is kind of important).
Power Point 2008 has a slide preview feature, which brings it to some semblance of the much better PC version of the Office.
Word 2008 is the best advertisement for iWork 08. That says a lot, because the latter is far from ideal, but nowhere near the "garbageness" of the word 2008.
I am reverting to using a combination of Office 04 +iWork and removing this 08 garbage from my system.
So a new update came out today and the first thing I do is check to see if the painfully slow typing lag was fixed and unfortunately it hasn't. I have a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor but I think my Vic20 had less typing lag.
My only thoughts of microsoft right now are ctrl-alt-del.
My only thoughts of microsoft right now are ctrl-alt-del.
I have stuck it out as long as I can but I will now be uninstalling office 2008 because of the lack of any progress to fix the laggy typing. It is so bad I can type out a sentence, go make a cup of coffee, and it still hasn't finished processing my sentence. Unfortunately my alternative is probably going to be office 2004 so Microsoft wins again 😡
Excel typing slow
In response to PNA who said he typing is not in real time. I searched for weeks to find an answer and tried removing preferences in user and root etc but the final solve was to empty or to set this to 0 in number of recent documents available in preferences under the Excel tab. Hope this helps!!😉
In response to PNA who said he typing is not in real time. I searched for weeks to find an answer and tried removing preferences in user and root etc but the final solve was to empty or to set this to 0 in number of recent documents available in preferences under the Excel tab. Hope this helps!!😉
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Thats the newest file type I believe.
I undocked the menu bar and can't get it back on, and for whatever reason my word docs always double space. No idea why.
That's the latest and greatest file format, which you can open natively with Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2007 for Windows. Office 2004 and Office 2003 can also open these files with a service pack.
In Word 2008, you can set .doc to be the default file format. Go to the Word menu, open up the Preferences, click on the Save preference icon, and then change the drop-down next to "Save Word files as:" to change to the old .doc file format. (Same thing works for PowerPoint and Excel, too.)
Regards,
Nadyne.