OWA: Find Names Dialog box comes up when pressing space bar   

Exchange 2003, Windows XPsp2, IE6.

I wish to refer to these two threads:
http://groups.google.be/group/microsoft.public.exchange.clients/browse_thread/thread/714565a0494bb8cb/77e8f2f0fe5b8e19
http://groups.google.be/group/microsoft.public.exchange.admin/browse_thread/thread/4155d29f2adc9099/11915f561a24e9cc

I have some more info to successfully duplicate the issue.

In OWA, reply to an email.
Press "find names".
Add a name to the TO, CC or BCC.
Close the Find names window.
You will notice that the cursor is blinking in the message compose
control (where you type the message body). However if you look very
carefully, you will see that the focus is still on the CC button.
When you start typing, and press space, the find names window will pop
up. This is because the CC button was still under focus.

Workaround: when you come out the find names window, click inside the
message compose control to explicitly set the focus.

Observation: when you compose a new message, not a reply, and use find
names, the cursor is not blinking in the message compose control,
thereby not giving a misleading impression to the user that the
message body has focus. He will instinctively click inside the message
before starting to type.

It is my impression that this issue is related to the "click to
activate" issue that Microsoft had to introduce because of license
reasons with ActiveX controls.

My questions:
* Can anyone confirm the issue?
* Except for writing an FAQ to inform our users, what else can be done
to remedy the problem?

TIA,

Amedee

date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:50:38 -0700 (PDT)   author:   Amedee Van Gasse