atw: Re: STraw poll
- From: Robert Levy <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:00:10 +1000
I use Mac. I think that Mac might have a feature or two that the Windows
version doesn't have, though they should correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm talking about the "Show Styles Guides" and "Show Direct Formatting" guides.
These put colored or boxed sections onto your document so you can see which
styles are where and which bits of text have no styles attached.
Thanks,
rwl
On 20/07/2011, at 10:38 AM, James Hunt wrote:
>
> On 19 Jul 2011, at 4:18 PM, Bill Parker wrote:
>
>> I notice the continuing discussion regarding the woes and occasional "not
>> so bads" about Word. Its always about the Windows versions. Am I the only
>> MAC person here? And from that, how different is Word 2011 for the
>> Macintosh from the last version for Windows?
>>
>> Bill
>
> No - there are at least three of us, I gather...
>
> Macintosh versions of Word have compatibility problems with the Windows
> versions - Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit has a sad reputation for
> delivering products a day late and a few dollars short. However, you _can_
> use Word for Windows on a Mac: first install the Parallels product
> (http://www.parallels.com/au/products/desktop/), which allows you run
> subsidiary operating systems. Then install your own copy of Windows Whatever,
> and Word for Windows. (You can install multiple guest operating systems under
> Parallels, and run (say) Word 2003 under Windows XP in one partition, Word
> 2010 under Windows 7 in another partition, other stuff under Ubuntu in
> another partition, and so on.)
>
> One of the great features of the Mac operating system is backup software
> called Time Machine (http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/backup.html), which
> backs up everything wirelessly to an external hard disk, on an hourly basis.
> The interface is easy to use, and you can reach back and retrieve earlier
> versions of documents.
>
> Hourly auto-saves may not be enough. Mac OS X also includes the backup
> software Subversion, which is a standard in software development shops. In
> Subversion, you can commit files at any time you like: daily, hourly, or just
> before doing something heroic like deleting an entire section. You can
> retrieve any committed version at any time: read back through your own
> comments to find the one you want.
>
> Subversion saves a base file and a chain of differences, and reconstructs
> versions of files as required. Thus Subversion works best on ASCII text
> files. I have seen Subversion used to manage Word and FrameMaker files, but
> in these cases the versions saved are entire files, not difference files. The
> corporate server was rather bloated...
>
> James Hunt
> ----------------
> Why I use a Macintosh: And those who look through the Windows® see dimly...
> (Eccl 12:3)
>
>
>
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