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I'm hoping you guys can help me with some of these. Over all I've been very pleased with my switch but I'm missing a few key features that I used all the time on Windows and I can't seem to find on Mac.
1) I've got a wealth of history in my Office Outlook on Windows. I've got Entourage 08 on the Mac but I can't seem to find any easy way to migrate. The only information I can find is to install old version of Outlook and Entourage and tunnel through this version and that version to finally get to Entourage 2008 and hopefully have everything you need. I'd rather stick with Outlook in a VM if it boils down to all of that, but if there's an easier way I'd prefer using Entourage on the Mac.
2) Cut and paste. After awhile I may get used to this but I'll always know in the back of my mind seconds could be shaved from the task of moving files/folders from one location to another. On Windows, when I have a single file browser open, say I'm in c:/downloads/torrents/completed and I want to move the file heyman.mp3 from there to my c:/users/documents/music folder. In windows I just click the file, ctrl+x (cut) and then in that same file browser window I can browse to the folder I want and then ctrl+v (paste) and it'll move that data for me (not copy). The big argument I see here is "what happens if you forget to paste?" Well, if you forget to paste the data remains in the same place it was before you cut. You don't lose it. Anyway, on the Mac I always have to open a separate finder window and browse to the folder I want and then drag the data over. Petty, I know, but I like it a lot better with cut/paste. Any way to do it on a Mac?
3) Kind of on that same subject, when I'm in a save/open dialog and I'm browsing files/directories I can't make changes to the directories at all. I have to cancel back out and open a finder window if I want to do that. On Windows I can copy/cut/paste/rename/etc while I'm in an open/save dialog so I can arrange things on the fly as I'm saving/opening. I'm missing that here..??
4) Tabbing between buttons on dialog boxes and in web sites. This actually seems to vary depending on the application I'm using but it seems that OSX itself doesn't allow me to tab through options in dialog windows. For example, say I'm in Stickies and I do apple+n to create a new note. Make my changes and then apple+w to close and the Don't Save, Cancel, or Save... buttons come up. I can't tab to the option I want and select it with the keyboard. I'm forced to move to my house to finish this task. This drives me a little nuts. I work very quickly with the keyboard and when I have to move to the mouse it just kills the whole flow of things.
As I said, this seems to be allowed in some applications I'm using but I never can tell if it's going to work or not until I try and it doesn't, and then I switch to the mouse.
On the same note, when I'm tabbing through form fields in a web browser (FireFox) it skips over drop down fields. Why is that!? I'm tabbing through the form filling it out like crazy and then comes things like State, Country, Card Type, etc. and I'm forced to use the mouse for all of those.
5) At first I really didn't like how the dual monitor support in os x forces the menu bar and everything on a "primary display" leaving the additional display for just "extra space" or what have you. It's still not my favorite but I'm getting used to it. The thing that I can't live without is my 1-click button to move a window from 1 display to the other. For example, if I have Firefox open on my primary display and it's covering up my Dreamweaver that I'm working in. I want the FF window over on the other display. In Windows I can click 1 button that's next to my min/max buttons and it'll move that entire window over to the other display for me. On OSX I have to click and drag the window over and fit in there just right and everything. Wasted seconds each and every time I have to do that, which of course is MANY times a day.
6) This kind of falls back to the fact that I can't use Entourage on the Mac because I can't find a easy migration tool. Well, I'm using Outlook in a VM and this one thing is driving me crazy (that I really only notice while I'm trying to go through emails).
If I'm on the Mac browsing Outlook in a VM I can't use Ctrl to select items that are not right next to each other. For example, say you're looking at a list of 10 items and you want to selec the first, fifth, and seventh, and delete them all at once. On Mac you can use apple to select them, on windows it's ctrl (as opposed to Shift which would select all items between the two you select). Well, again, while on the VM I can't use Ctrl so I can't select random emails like that. Is there any way around that?
I think that's all I've got for now. I just got this thing about a week ago, though, so I'd imagine I'll more before long.
Any information on how to make any of these little annoyances better for me in the OSX world would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
1) I've got a wealth of history in my Office Outlook on Windows. I've got Entourage 08 on the Mac but I can't seem to find any easy way to migrate. The only information I can find is to install old version of Outlook and Entourage and tunnel through this version and that version to finally get to Entourage 2008 and hopefully have everything you need. I'd rather stick with Outlook in a VM if it boils down to all of that, but if there's an easier way I'd prefer using Entourage on the Mac.
2) Cut and paste. After awhile I may get used to this but I'll always know in the back of my mind seconds could be shaved from the task of moving files/folders from one location to another. On Windows, when I have a single file browser open, say I'm in c:/downloads/torrents/completed and I want to move the file heyman.mp3 from there to my c:/users/documents/music folder. In windows I just click the file, ctrl+x (cut) and then in that same file browser window I can browse to the folder I want and then ctrl+v (paste) and it'll move that data for me (not copy). The big argument I see here is "what happens if you forget to paste?" Well, if you forget to paste the data remains in the same place it was before you cut. You don't lose it. Anyway, on the Mac I always have to open a separate finder window and browse to the folder I want and then drag the data over. Petty, I know, but I like it a lot better with cut/paste. Any way to do it on a Mac?
3) Kind of on that same subject, when I'm in a save/open dialog and I'm browsing files/directories I can't make changes to the directories at all. I have to cancel back out and open a finder window if I want to do that. On Windows I can copy/cut/paste/rename/etc while I'm in an open/save dialog so I can arrange things on the fly as I'm saving/opening. I'm missing that here..??
4) Tabbing between buttons on dialog boxes and in web sites. This actually seems to vary depending on the application I'm using but it seems that OSX itself doesn't allow me to tab through options in dialog windows. For example, say I'm in Stickies and I do apple+n to create a new note. Make my changes and then apple+w to close and the Don't Save, Cancel, or Save... buttons come up. I can't tab to the option I want and select it with the keyboard. I'm forced to move to my house to finish this task. This drives me a little nuts. I work very quickly with the keyboard and when I have to move to the mouse it just kills the whole flow of things.
As I said, this seems to be allowed in some applications I'm using but I never can tell if it's going to work or not until I try and it doesn't, and then I switch to the mouse.
On the same note, when I'm tabbing through form fields in a web browser (FireFox) it skips over drop down fields. Why is that!? I'm tabbing through the form filling it out like crazy and then comes things like State, Country, Card Type, etc. and I'm forced to use the mouse for all of those.
5) At first I really didn't like how the dual monitor support in os x forces the menu bar and everything on a "primary display" leaving the additional display for just "extra space" or what have you. It's still not my favorite but I'm getting used to it. The thing that I can't live without is my 1-click button to move a window from 1 display to the other. For example, if I have Firefox open on my primary display and it's covering up my Dreamweaver that I'm working in. I want the FF window over on the other display. In Windows I can click 1 button that's next to my min/max buttons and it'll move that entire window over to the other display for me. On OSX I have to click and drag the window over and fit in there just right and everything. Wasted seconds each and every time I have to do that, which of course is MANY times a day.
6) This kind of falls back to the fact that I can't use Entourage on the Mac because I can't find a easy migration tool. Well, I'm using Outlook in a VM and this one thing is driving me crazy (that I really only notice while I'm trying to go through emails).
If I'm on the Mac browsing Outlook in a VM I can't use Ctrl to select items that are not right next to each other. For example, say you're looking at a list of 10 items and you want to selec the first, fifth, and seventh, and delete them all at once. On Mac you can use apple to select them, on windows it's ctrl (as opposed to Shift which would select all items between the two you select). Well, again, while on the VM I can't use Ctrl so I can't select random emails like that. Is there any way around that?
I think that's all I've got for now. I just got this thing about a week ago, though, so I'd imagine I'll more before long.
Any information on how to make any of these little annoyances better for me in the OSX world would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!