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Thursday; computer troubles...

Jan 20, 2011 15:46

One of the things that happened when we moved was the discovery that there was no way my antique Macintosh could be made to work in our new apartment. Which means that I now have an iMac with many bells and whistles. That's good -- except when it gets in the way of getting my work done ( Read more... )

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You can do this! shalanna January 20 2011, 22:36:37 UTC

I could come over there and help you . . . but everyone's snowed in and I have SO much that I gotta do every day just to keep Casa el Dumpo and its denizens running ( ... )

Re: You can do this! hagsrus January 20 2011, 22:45:25 UTC

Even easier: for existing text, highlight then control-i to turn on italics, control-i again to end italic.

OR: for new text control-I, type what you want, then control-I again to toggle off.

Control-b for bold, control-u to underline.

This assuming they haven't changed it since Word 2003!

Re: You can do this! archangelbeth January 21 2011, 00:27:37 UTC

Command-i on a Mac, not Control-i.

Re: You can do this! hagsrus January 21 2011, 01:25:16 UTC

Yes, sorry - I'm not a Mac user but assume those are pretty much universal.

Re: You can do this! voxwoman January 20 2011, 23:04:59 UTC

they completely redid the user interface with Word 2007. There ARE no menus anymore. It's a "ribbon bar" with tabs and nothing is where it used to be.

Re: You can do this! tapati January 21 2011, 02:39:24 UTC

UGH. Just not going there. Good to know.

Re: You can do this! dancenerd January 21 2011, 07:28:25 UTC

This is true for Word 2007 for *Windows*. Word:Mac 2008 is like older versions of Word and doesn't have the ribbon bar or radical reorganization.

Re: You can do this! autopope January 21 2011, 10:03:24 UTC

Word:Mac 2008 has been replaced -- four months ago -- by Word:Mac 2011, which has the dreaded ribbon.

Office 2008 for Mac is a PowerPC-only binary and will only run on an Intel Mac with Rosetta installed, and at that it runs sluggishly and there are graphical artefacts (read: bugs) in screen rendering. Been there, done that, wouldn't recommend it.

Re: You can do this! dancenerd January 22 2011, 00:38:05 UTC

I figured the replacement was recent enough that Word: Mac 2008 would still be out there for someone who wanted to look.

And I'm currently running Office 2008 for Mac on an Intel Mac (MacBook Pro) that I bought just this summer. Works great, not sluggish or buggy at all. In fact, I couldn't upgrade from the earlier version of Office until I got an Intel Mac.

Re: You can do this! arndis February 2 2011, 17:11:20 UTC

I'm expert in Word 2000 and 2003, and quite familiar with Word 2007. I liked how stable in size and discoverable the ribbon was, but it was awful looking for features in it by name -- it shows relatively few words, doesn't show many commands and dialogs that I KNOW Word has, and has no menus to look through as a backup. I know there is a "where is my feature" guide but it is a pain to invoke.

Then in 2008 I bought a Mac, used OpenOffice on it, and just recently installed Word 2011 on it. I've never used a proper Mac-like word processor. So to my uneducated eyes, Word 2011 combines what I liked about the ribbon in 2007, keeps the menus so I can find almost every feature I need fairly quickly, and adds a bunch of nice interface refinements, though mostly I haven't used them yet.

Of course, I do any *serious* writing in either a text editor or in InDesign, so...

Re: You can do this! ext_252492 April 10 2011, 06:47:38 UTC

One of my best friends worked on the new version of Word/Office. He and I very nearly came to blows over some of the changes, the ribbon, especially.

My greatest complaint about it is that it is not scalable in height, which to me, with my eyesight, is an accessibility issue. Microsoft does not see it that way.

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