>Just back up again after moving onto a new laptop with Vista Home Premium and Office 2007. After mastering User Access Controls and flicking a switching in Installshield Express 12 to defeat UAC etc, here are some weird things:

What switch in Installsheld 12 did you flick? We have a problem with Vista and IS12 also.

Thanks
Tim






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>* With ClearType on in Vista (default) most text looks great - except my Arial 8 and 10 point labels on VFP forms. These waft in and out of bold/not bold in the strangest way as you sit watching them. (With ClearType off, VFP is fine - but everything else looks horrible.)
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>* Shortcut menus, never slick in FoxPro at the best of times, are now almost too sticky to use. The menu highlight hangs up on particular items. Very annoying.
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>* Dropdown comboboxes - same thing. It's extremely difficult to see which items the mouse is over because the highlight smears over several.
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>* Speed is fine in VFP, but speed with Excel automation when using Office 2007 is hopeless. As per usual (Office 95 -> 97 -> 2000 -> XP -> 2003), the VBA object model has subtle differences, few of which (actually none) are documented. I got everything working after 24 hours, but have put a hold on automation with Excel 2007 in favour of Excel XP on the grounds of speed and the last few object model differences I would have to fix.
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>Another funny thing is that when my new Toshiba A200 wakes from sleep, and Excel is running, it opens the VBA editor just for fun. (My old Toshiba A100 made Excel ask me about installing speech files on waking. Each to his own.)
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>All done until the next time, I guess.