Friday, February 23, 2007

Word 2007 Table Woes

Last week, I converted over to Word 2007. As part of my work, I review use cases for an upcoming application. The text of use cases are all in one table that spans multiple pages. (Yeah, it's not very pretty, but that's what people thought looked good.)

I've been periodically having display problems with Word 2007. I'll be typing along in one of the cells, and suddenly the screen will flash and part of the table (including the text I was typing) is gone. By gone, I mean no longer in any part of the visible document. It doesn't matter whether I'm typing in draft view mode or page layout. I can get the text and table back by undo. The issue seems to also be related to where the page break is in relation to the visible document. Because I can scroll the document up and down, and it doesn't have any problems. However, if I don't scroll, I'm back in the Word twilight zone.

So… you have been forewarned about tables in Word 2007 (12.0.4518.1014).

Word 2007 Access

I think I have Word 2007 setup to access my blog. Let's see if this actually works…