Has anybody else run into problems selecting open documents in 2008? What I am trying to do is select one of several open documents from the Window menu. I might pick a drawing of an assembly and get a a part instead. Using CTRL-TAB gives the same result. SW picks a seemingly random item, sometimes not even a part that was open, but may have been contained in the assembly.
SW2008 SP1.1 WinXP SP2
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Yes... I've seen that too.....and discovered one thing, Ctrl-Tab won't bring up a minimized window. I have a habit of minimizing one open document to get to another....think I have to get rid of that habit. Never seen it bring up a not opened document though.
// Krister
The assembly has a lot of in-context parts. It is those parts that frequently come up instead of the assembly drawing.
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Might it be so that You have the setting >load referenced documents< set to >all
Krister,
I likely do have it set that way; I'll check on Monday. However, that should not cause CTRL tab to select a part when an assembly or a drawing is picked from the display of icons. And it shouldn't cause the same behaviour in the list under the windows menu.
Did you try that setting and get the same behaviour that I am getting?
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There is some discussion on this issue over on the SW forums.
Anna
Tried that setting ...and the others too...but can not repeat that behaviour
// Krister
Using the Window menu, it seems as if the pointer is off by one so if A,B,C and D are open and I pick on D, C is brought to the front. If it was my Palm Pilot I would recalibrate the digitizer.
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Now I'm on a new installation of SW 2008 64 Bit on a 64 bit OS and seems to have the opposite problem of Yours. I have open documents not showing up in the CTRL-TAB browsing or in the Windows menu. So from start I thought I repeted Your problem....not opened doc's showing up instead of the the chosen one, but minimizing the other showed that there were documents open then I could not see in the menus.
// Krister
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