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Wow, that's crazy.
I have never used Office for Macs. I was stunned that this functionality doesn't exist in it.

Every single item you listed is present in the Windows versions of Office, at least in 2007, most of them in earlier versions as well (yes, including "Paste and Match Style"..it's just worded differently).

The one that made me really start wondering is the "Save As". Are you telling me that you really can't Ctrl+F+A and save as? That's insane.

The only feature you complained about that I don't understand is the inability to use cmmd+g for find next. Unless I'm just reading it wrong, isn't hitting the return button easier than hitting multiple keys...and than remembering the shortcut? Maybe that's just me. But it seems that hitting enter is more intuitive than a keyboard shortcut. But perhaps I'm the odd one here....

Is that the only issue you have with the find function, because I've never managed to stump the the feature, personally, and I'm also a "power user" (based on your definition of 8+ daily hours of use). I use it all the time in documents that you aren't supposed to use pronouns in, or when searching for specific transaction amounts in excel I don't really think that a counter-intuitive (from your perspective) is call to call something "horrible" but I wonder if it doesn't work as well in your version.

It is amazing to me that the program has lost so much in translation.
Posted by: laura.b   Posted on: 11/29/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Wow, that's crazy.  laura.b | 11/29/07
Edit  laura.b | 11/29/07
Answers  j.m.galvin | 11/29/07
Wow  laura.b | 11/29/07
Mac Guidelines  DannyO_0x98 | 11/29/07
I am fairly sure  laura.b | 11/29/07
I was wrong  laura.b | 11/29/07
Wow  laura.b | 11/29/07
It' a Mac thing...  Jason D. O'Grady ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/07
I have to agree there  laura.b | 11/29/07
Office is poor on all platforms.  itguy08 | 11/29/07
Too high expectations  croberts | 11/29/07
I disagree...  Jason D. O'Grady ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/07
See, that's a Mac thing  laura.b | 11/29/07
Edit:  laura.b | 11/29/07
Consider the source  j.m.galvin | 11/29/07
ClarisWorks...  Jason D. O'Grady ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/07
What I try to get our users to do  j.m.galvin | 11/29/07
My Suggestion  DannyO_0x98 | 11/29/07
What version are you referring to?  laura.b | 11/29/07
Versions  Jason D. O'Grady ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/07
Have they released the 2008 Beta yet?  laura.b | 11/29/07
No betas for you!  Jason D. O'Grady ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/07
Microsoft is acting like a 2-year-old...  olePigeon | 11/29/07
Totally out of character  laura.b | 11/29/07
Latest is 11.3.9  Mike Cox, Sr. | 11/29/07
All of them.  Bruizer | 11/29/07
I'm talking basic page layout and functionality.  itguy08 | 11/29/07
I agree with a couple of those  laura.b | 11/29/07
Word Autosave  frgough | 11/29/07
If he's anything like me  laura.b | 11/30/07
No and cancel  frgough | 11/30/07
I'm surprised M$ is even bothering  DarthRidiculous | 11/29/07
Nonsense  ewelch | 11/30/07
iWork '08  Len Rooney | 11/29/07
Numbers '08 is ok, but....  Jason D. O'Grady ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/07
New paradigms  Len Rooney | 11/29/07
Numbers Has What I Need  mbuffett | 12/04/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  dwaldrup | 11/29/07
Office 2008 removes VBS support...  olePigeon | 11/29/07
Paste and Match Style  phranque27 | 11/29/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  dtoub | 11/29/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  Badgered | 11/29/07
Assign the ...  HouseOfZen | 11/29/07
I'm a bit surprised  frgough | 11/29/07
F12 is the default Save As shortcut. However OS X intercepts F12 for...  ye | 11/29/07
Paste and match is available too.  ye | 11/29/07
While Office bites on any platform...  Bruizer | 11/29/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  john@... | 11/30/07
Office 08 may not fix much.  nix_hed | 11/30/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  khorsia | 11/30/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  phatkat | 11/30/07
I don't believe you people...  levinson | 11/30/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  wtripp@... | 12/01/07
RE: Office:mac 2004 on life support  emailmor@... | 12/01/07

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