Which Word for Windows are you using? I teach the use of Word to many of my clients on both platforms... and don't find that much difference between the two... until the latest version of the Windows Word. You mention earlier the Format toolbar doesn't come up automatically... turn it on. It's under View/Toolbars. You mentioned bringing up a blank document... click OK on the project gallery. Voila! One click.
I have several client SMBs using Macs with Microsoft Office... and Word... and Excel. They don't have any problems and new employees who've used Windows Word don't either.
What are you doing in Excel that doesn't work?
Finding the file to attach is the problem. On a PC you go directly to documents from the email app. on the Mac it takes you to photos first then you have to click on documents and then you can attach the file.
Gee... mine defaults to Documents. And there are a list of other file sources on the sidebar... Music, Pictures, Movies... etc. How hard is that?
And finally why should I have to learn a “new paradigm” to use a computer.
It is obvious that you want the Mac to work just like Windows... that's why. Once you do learn the new to you paradigm, you like most of the others on this thread may find it is a better paradigm than the one you've been used to.
For the record we have Word for Windows 2002 and Words for Mac 2004. As for the tool bar we go to View/Tool Bars click format and turn it on every time we go into Word and every time we go back into Word we have to do it again. On our PC’s it’s automatically there when you start Word, what a concept, cool huh?
“Gee... mine defaults to Documents” good for you, ours doesn’t. It defaults to finder/photos. Then you scroll up to Docs, click on Docs and find your document, click and attach. On the PCs you click on attach and it defaults to documents. You find your document and click to attach. Not a big deal just another extra step that shouldn’t be necessary. Over the course of a day all these little extra steps become very annoying. Again the PC just works, what a concept, huh?
” It is obvious that you want the Mac to work just like Windows.”
You are finally starting to get it. After 14 years of using a computer I do not want nor do I see the need to start over with a “new paradigm” which I find cumbersome and non-intuitive. To quote my wife as she leaves the room fuming yet again, “I just want a computer that works.” I want to have full features on my music services so I can listen to my play lists while I work, I want my attachments from friends to open in my email like a PC, I want Word centered on the screen not off to the side, I want the format tool bar to automatically be there when I start new documents, when I open Word I want it to go directly to a blank doc not a box asking me if I want a blank doc, I don’t want my computer deciding which mail service it wants to use when I send files to people(defaults to Mac Mail and then decides which name the mail will go out under unlike Yahoo that use the email of the person signed in on the computer). Get the picture? I glad you guys all love your Macs, I don’t share your slavish dedication to the “new paradigm”
Thankfully we have two other computers that do work. As I said as soon as I can find someone to take the Mac off my hands for a reasonable price it will be gone and will be replaced by a third that also works. Nuff said.