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Struggling

Vince from HKMacs has a short piece in today’s SCMP about common problems people have when switching from Windows to the Mac.  I’m currently going through this learning curve myself, and so all advice is welcome.  Shaky has more on the same theme.

So far I’m liking the way that the active application has its menu bar at the top of the screen, and getting frustrated by the fact that some applications I use won’t run on a Mac.

Oh, and wondering what I did wrong in installing OpenOffice – it is there but does nothing at all. 

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2 responses to “Struggling”

  1. spacehunt avatar
    spacehunt

    Get NeoOffice/J instead of OO.o. It’s not much better though… seriously MS Office for Mac is much better.
    Or install Linux on your Mac and run OO.o on that. Yes OO.o for OS X is really that bad.

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  2. dave avatar
    dave

    What do you run that won’t work on the Mac? There’s probably an open-source or shareware equivalent somewhere.
    What part of Openoffice do you need?

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