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[Guitar_Professor]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I now have my first Mac, after 25 years of Dells and Compaqs. I also just graduated from Word 2000 for Windows, to Word:Mac 2008. No manuals come with the program, and a Dummies book will not be published until some time in May.
All of the Word files that I have transferred to the Mac have some minor problems of spacing in them. I can't figure out how to fix anything. First of all, I don't see any, such thing as the Tool Bar, that allows me to change the point size of fonts, at the top of my screen. What advice can you give me?

If I opt to purchase Mac's competing products to Word and Excel, will that work, or will I really unleash a hornets nest of spacing problems (many of my Word files contain inserted TIFF images on almost every page.
Thanks

 

[John McGhie]

My First recommendation would be to use the same version of Word and Excel
you already own for the Dell.

You can install Windows on a modern Mac, and I suggest that you do that.
You already own the Windows operating system from the Dell, so install it on
the Mac.

To make things easier, spend $70 on a program named "Parallels" that enables
you to run Windows applications concurrently with your Mac applications.

Word 2008 has an extensive manual, but it is a website. The first "secret"
is to allow the Help system to go online before you query it.

You can get your toolbars back with View>Toolbars. Show the "Standard" and
"Formatting" toolbars. And learn to use the "Toolbox" to replace the
toolbars. It will be quicker when you get used to it.

The second secret is to realise that the Help was not ready when the product
was released. They are filling it in, very quickly. Every day there are
new topics. So let the help stay online.

Now: Some homework...
http://word.mvps.org/mac/bend/bendwordtoyourwill.html

And while you're at it:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html

And stick around, we'll get you going!

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I now have my first Mac, after 25 years of Dells and Compaqs. I also just
graduated from Word 2000 for Windows, to Word:Mac 2008. No manuals come with
the program, and a Dummies book will not be published until some time in May.
All of the Word files that I have transferred to the Mac have some minor
problems of spacing in them. I can't figure out how to fix anything. First of
all, I don't see any, such thing as the Tool Bar, that allows me to change the
point size of fonts, at the top of my screen. What advice can you give me?

If I opt to purchase Mac's competing products to Word and Excel, will that
work, or will I really unleash a hornets nest of spacing problems (many of my
Word files contain inserted TIFF images on almost every page.
Thanks

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