WordPerfect is my bitch. I run version 7, which is, I believe, pretty old. What version of WP do you have? You might find that a lot of the shortcuts and commands are the same as Office.

I work with both WP and Word, most of the basic features are similar, but the nifty little shortcuts for things are way different. I always get frustrated switching back and forth, because they are simiar enough that I'll be trying to do something in Word the way it works in WP, and it will take me a while to figure out why it's not working.

The thing that makes me the craziest with work is that when you hit the print icon, it prints one copy of the document to your default settings, where in WP, the print icon brings up an print options menu.

The thing that makes me the craziest with work is that when you hit the print icon, it prints one copy of the document to your default settings, where in WP, the print icon brings up an print options menu.

I've gotten into the hapit of using Ctrl-P to print from MS Office - that way I get the print dialog box instead. Does WP work the same way?

Completely unrelated - how do you get the 'home' and 'end' keys to do anything on a Mac? (Yes, I'm using a Mac keyboard.)

Completely unrelated - how do you get the 'home' and 'end' keys to do anything on a Mac? (Yes, I'm using a Mac keyboard.)

They work for me.

In Word? I will check. Also, what OS are you in?

OS X 10.3. Also, I couldn't get them to work on 10.2 on my iBook. On my 10.3 Cube I'm using an Apple wireless keyboard.

Do those keys have application-specific functionality? I don't have Word on either computer.

Huh. The keys work in Open Office. But it annoys me that they don't work in an HTML text box in Mozilla/Firefox.

Perhaps they need the numlock... heh.

Weird that they wouldn't work. The Appearance pane of the System Preferences utility enables you to modify the behavior of window scrolling. You might want to start there.

Do those keys have application-specific functionality?

Word sometimes has special remapping.

I just skipped over like 200 posts here, so if anybody had an unanswered TiVo question, I didn't see it. Not that you aren't in good hands, but I've had a lot of experience with them, so....

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My computer had become something to loathe and fear. Apple is the most reliable computer on the market, according to Consumer Reports.

I buy everything Consumer Reports tells me to buy.

Except Old Milwaukee.

I need to bring my Power Mac to the shop yet again tomorrow.

I'm thinking about buying a Mac mini just so I'll have a spare computer for when my main one is being fixed.

You could mount it on the wall behind a panel that says, "In case of emergency, break glass."