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missing commands in MS Word 2008 for Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="irving2000" data-source="post: 1082598" data-attributes="member: 165373"><p>Likewise I do a lot of writing (6 hours plus per day) as an anthropologist currently writing a book, and have just switched to a Macbook Pro since my last laptop died. There are a number of very useful functions for writing in Office, Word 2007 that I can't figure out in Mac Word 2008 and would greatly appreciate any help of advice as it is currently driving me nuts. </p><p></p><p>First, I managed to set up scrapbook so that it works somewhat like clipboard but it seems much less efficient, and also when it stores pasted snippets of text (clipboard would store up to 24) the snippets are very large icons rather than simply being the text and so it is only possible to see 3 snippets at a time rather than 10 or so on clipboard. In Office I have the clipboard open at all times to the side of the main text: it is sort of possible to do this in scrapbook but it also contains other functions i never use that get in the way. Again it is difficult to reduce the size so it fits neatly and tends to run over the writing page.</p><p></p><p>Second, I have tried to customise the toolbar so as to only have the options I use and tried to minimise its size, so that the screen is a large as possible for writing. However, I haven't managed to do neither successfully. On Office it is possible to arrange the exact buttons that you use a lot (eg undo/redo etc) in the order you want and delete the rest. It is also possible to make the toolbar physically narrower.</p><p></p><p>If anyone has any tips whatsoever on these I would be extremely grateful as given the amount of writing I am currently required to do, it would be very useful and much, much less distracting if there is a way of customising the page beyond the fairly minimal options that currently seem possible in my limited knowledge and new foray into Macworld.</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p><p>Viscount</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="irving2000, post: 1082598, member: 165373"] Likewise I do a lot of writing (6 hours plus per day) as an anthropologist currently writing a book, and have just switched to a Macbook Pro since my last laptop died. There are a number of very useful functions for writing in Office, Word 2007 that I can't figure out in Mac Word 2008 and would greatly appreciate any help of advice as it is currently driving me nuts. First, I managed to set up scrapbook so that it works somewhat like clipboard but it seems much less efficient, and also when it stores pasted snippets of text (clipboard would store up to 24) the snippets are very large icons rather than simply being the text and so it is only possible to see 3 snippets at a time rather than 10 or so on clipboard. In Office I have the clipboard open at all times to the side of the main text: it is sort of possible to do this in scrapbook but it also contains other functions i never use that get in the way. Again it is difficult to reduce the size so it fits neatly and tends to run over the writing page. Second, I have tried to customise the toolbar so as to only have the options I use and tried to minimise its size, so that the screen is a large as possible for writing. However, I haven't managed to do neither successfully. On Office it is possible to arrange the exact buttons that you use a lot (eg undo/redo etc) in the order you want and delete the rest. It is also possible to make the toolbar physically narrower. If anyone has any tips whatsoever on these I would be extremely grateful as given the amount of writing I am currently required to do, it would be very useful and much, much less distracting if there is a way of customising the page beyond the fairly minimal options that currently seem possible in my limited knowledge and new foray into Macworld. Thanks! Viscount [/QUOTE]
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