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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3784318" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>It's pretty amazing that Microsoft took over the world with the half assed software they put out. OSX is light years ahead of Windows. I've ran for months at a time without rebooting. I have a couple of little quibbles with OSX such as requiring more mouse clicks, especially on multiple monitors than Windoze but I can live with those quibbles. Apple stuff just works, it's that simple. If it wasn't for having to submit my work in Office file formats I'd not have it at all. I can't do my reports in Numbers or Pages and save as .xlsx or .docx either. It works but the formatting of pages, columns, etc. isn't close enough.</p><p></p><p>I could rock and roll on Wordperfect and Lotus and I have yet to figure out MS Word after all these years. Wordperfect with reveal code mode on is just dirt simple as to formatting, you could figure out what you needed and where really easily. Word is like reading Chinese with only 1/4 of their alphabet. It's pathetic. And it's downright maddening if you want to delete multiple pages in the middle of a file without just setting a .45LC on the backspace key and taking a nap like I almost did the other day when I needed to delete a couple of thousand pages. Luckily I found a youtube video on how to do it and I'd have never figured that **** out. It ain't in the help or support. I do fairly well with Excel which is usually 95% of my work, but Lotus was way better back way in the day. You could record keyboard macros super easy to type repetitive stuff and do stuff like bold or format a cell or even several things at once if you could figure out the sequence that you needed. I've not seen that ability with anything MS yet and we're over 30 years down the road!</p><p></p><p>On the other hand it's also kind of amazing that MS Office for Mac works as good as it does. I've used a Mac exclusively for about ten years and only in the last couple of months have I had to use Word inside Windows for anything at all and I've never once had a file format issue between the two. That something that popped up on me is doing mail merges using the mail merge wizard in Word. My bosses at work had to have it. MS just up and took it out of Office 365 for Mac in an "update". It used to be there but it is no moar! There's also not a thing about it in any release notes I could find on it either. I found that in a support forum.</p><p></p><p><img src="/images/smilies/new/explode.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":explode:" title="Explode :explode:" data-shortname=":explode:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 3784318, member: 3099"] It's pretty amazing that Microsoft took over the world with the half assed software they put out. OSX is light years ahead of Windows. I've ran for months at a time without rebooting. I have a couple of little quibbles with OSX such as requiring more mouse clicks, especially on multiple monitors than Windoze but I can live with those quibbles. Apple stuff just works, it's that simple. If it wasn't for having to submit my work in Office file formats I'd not have it at all. I can't do my reports in Numbers or Pages and save as .xlsx or .docx either. It works but the formatting of pages, columns, etc. isn't close enough. I could rock and roll on Wordperfect and Lotus and I have yet to figure out MS Word after all these years. Wordperfect with reveal code mode on is just dirt simple as to formatting, you could figure out what you needed and where really easily. Word is like reading Chinese with only 1/4 of their alphabet. It's pathetic. And it's downright maddening if you want to delete multiple pages in the middle of a file without just setting a .45LC on the backspace key and taking a nap like I almost did the other day when I needed to delete a couple of thousand pages. Luckily I found a youtube video on how to do it and I'd have never figured that **** out. It ain't in the help or support. I do fairly well with Excel which is usually 95% of my work, but Lotus was way better back way in the day. You could record keyboard macros super easy to type repetitive stuff and do stuff like bold or format a cell or even several things at once if you could figure out the sequence that you needed. I've not seen that ability with anything MS yet and we're over 30 years down the road! On the other hand it's also kind of amazing that MS Office for Mac works as good as it does. I've used a Mac exclusively for about ten years and only in the last couple of months have I had to use Word inside Windows for anything at all and I've never once had a file format issue between the two. That something that popped up on me is doing mail merges using the mail merge wizard in Word. My bosses at work had to have it. MS just up and took it out of Office 365 for Mac in an "update". It used to be there but it is no moar! There's also not a thing about it in any release notes I could find on it either. I found that in a support forum. :explode: [/QUOTE]
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