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.
I would imagine if you wanted you could wipe off OS X and install just Windows on your Mac. I don’t know about iMacs, but the MacBook Pros were the fastest Windows computers released last year. So you already have a pretty good one to use.
I am sorry... but that just does NOT match with my many years of experience working with MS Word on the Mac platform... you click the Formatting under View/Toolbars and it puts a check mark next to it and it will appear everytime you start your Word up again without further user intervention. It is not a Mac problem... it might be a problem with your Office installation. I suspect you have a corrupted preference file.
...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...
You don't know how to configure your computer. Sheesh. Start up MS Word and look at the bottom of the Project Gallery window... do you see that little check box that says "Show Project Gallery at startup"? Uncheck the box and click OK... you'll never see it again unless you ask for it under "File." When you start Word... it starts with a blank document. Where the new document opens is a choice that Microsoft made... not Apple.
Then you scroll up to Docs, click on Docs and find your document, click and attach.
Scroll up? Why not just click the "Documents" icon on your sidebar in Finder? You've apparently never let the Mac know which folder you want to default to. The Mac will default to the last one you used.
Are you using Mail or are you using MS Entourage? If you are using the latter, then, again your problem is with Microsoft.
I want my attachments from friends to open in my email like a PC...
They do... double click on them in the email body and they WILL open.
I really suggest you spend some time in the Preferences areas, both for your program and your system prefs. I think a lot of your problems could be taken care of there.