I hope the following will be of help to other puzzled newcomers to Mac. I have just joined the Forums; I am sure it has been covered before ad nauseum, but a search by me couldn't find it, so here goes:
I switched two weeks ago and love the MacBook Pro 15 but I had a hard time finding the equivalents of some commands in MS Office Word 2008 for Mac.
I write articles and books and I need these commands in Word. The answers were not so obvious.
For example the Home and End keys are missing on my MacBook Pro 15.
And the Shift F5 key no longer takes me to the previous place in a Word document.
Zooming in a document eluded me for a while.
Worst of all, the Toolbar disappeared and five Word experts couldn't find it. I have 5 books on the MacBook and on switching, and none of them listed a Show/Hide Toolbar function. I had to Google for the answer. Much later I discovered that two of the five books indicated the answer without listing it in the index.
Here are the answers I came up with after quite a series of searches:
MS Word 2008 for Mac commands:
Up arrow goes to top of document
Down arrow goes to end of document
These replace the missing Home and End keys and were created by Tools, to Customize Keyboard, to All Commands, to Start of Document and End of Document, whereupon I entered the up and down arrows as commands to do this.
Option up arrow and Option down arrow still go up one page and down one page, but to go down a line, use the mouse or trackpad.
Shift F5 doesn’t work as the GoBack (to previous place in document) command but in All Commands I found that GoBack can also be done by holding down Command and Option simultaneously and then hitting Z while still holding down Command and Option. A more elaborate way to do this is cmd G and put in page 1 or page 100.
Forward delete is Fn + Delete
Go back or forward one or more spaces is left or right arrow
Go up or down one or more lines use cursor to get where you want, then click
To zoom in or out with Word, hold down ctrl and cmd and scroll with your mouse
In other programs, zoom in or out with cmd + or cmd -
And last but not least, a tiny pale oblong in the upper right hand corner of a Word document toggles the Toolbar on and off. This turns out to be a Mac function, not a Word function, and it applies also to Excel, Mail, Finder, and probably others.
Ciao,
auriga
I switched two weeks ago and love the MacBook Pro 15 but I had a hard time finding the equivalents of some commands in MS Office Word 2008 for Mac.
I write articles and books and I need these commands in Word. The answers were not so obvious.
For example the Home and End keys are missing on my MacBook Pro 15.
And the Shift F5 key no longer takes me to the previous place in a Word document.
Zooming in a document eluded me for a while.
Worst of all, the Toolbar disappeared and five Word experts couldn't find it. I have 5 books on the MacBook and on switching, and none of them listed a Show/Hide Toolbar function. I had to Google for the answer. Much later I discovered that two of the five books indicated the answer without listing it in the index.
Here are the answers I came up with after quite a series of searches:
MS Word 2008 for Mac commands:
Up arrow goes to top of document
Down arrow goes to end of document
These replace the missing Home and End keys and were created by Tools, to Customize Keyboard, to All Commands, to Start of Document and End of Document, whereupon I entered the up and down arrows as commands to do this.
Option up arrow and Option down arrow still go up one page and down one page, but to go down a line, use the mouse or trackpad.
Shift F5 doesn’t work as the GoBack (to previous place in document) command but in All Commands I found that GoBack can also be done by holding down Command and Option simultaneously and then hitting Z while still holding down Command and Option. A more elaborate way to do this is cmd G and put in page 1 or page 100.
Forward delete is Fn + Delete
Go back or forward one or more spaces is left or right arrow
Go up or down one or more lines use cursor to get where you want, then click
To zoom in or out with Word, hold down ctrl and cmd and scroll with your mouse
In other programs, zoom in or out with cmd + or cmd -
And last but not least, a tiny pale oblong in the upper right hand corner of a Word document toggles the Toolbar on and off. This turns out to be a Mac function, not a Word function, and it applies also to Excel, Mail, Finder, and probably others.
Ciao,
auriga