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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....
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."
And speaking of Macs.
I finally began setting up my new (to me) eMac, despite not yet adding new memory. I will do that soonish.
My immediate need:
Consider me a clean slate. Never used OSX before. (have only 10.1.4 until the upgrade)
What browser and email programs should I be using?
(Cheap suggestions will be given the most weight...or rather, suggestions for cheap products vs. simply cheap talk.)
Also: Is it worthwhile the upgrade from Office 2001 to work in OSX or is the Classic environment just fine...which is what I suspect.
(off to walk the pooch, so if anyone is around, I'll respond in about a half hour. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.)
