[IxDA Discuss] Tips, help for UX guy with shiny new mac.

[Chris Bernard]

Folks with the document format challenge may find this product helpful.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/Office2004/ConverterBeta.xml

Chris Bernard
Microsoft
User Experience Evangelist
chris.bernard at microsoft.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Jim Drew
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 7:25 PM
To: UI List
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tips, help for UX guy with shiny new mac.

>From: "Jared M. Spool" <jspool at uie.com>
>
>On Jun 8, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Kurt Morris wrote:
>
>>> The Mac OS makes hard things easy and easy things hard.
>>
>> I'm not sure what "easy things [are] hard" on a Mac. Care to
>> elaborate?
>
>The second one is that I can't read my client's Office 2007 documents
>without having them save it in a backwards compatible format.

Is that the fault of the Mac, or of Microsoft for not keeping in synch between Windows and Mac releases, or you for not having Office 2007 for the Mac.  (I don't know if it's available.)

If and when iWork '07 is released, or when Leopard comes out, Pages and TextEdit will both probably be able to read Word 2007 docs.  They can read earlier versions today.


>The third is the Mac Finder, for which I'd trade for Windows Explorer
>any day. (I made frequent use of typing, cutting, and pasting file
>addresses on our server disks.)

This one I'll grant you.

On the flip side, though, there are probably a lot of features and behaviors that you use not necessarily because they are good and important, but because they are there.  I use the ability copy/paste a path on Windows now and then, but I don't know that I've hardly ever wished for it on the Mac simply because places to use the outcome of it aren't there.

(Oops, let me amend that.  I *have* needed it on the Mac, when dealing with the Terminal and such, and the info is way easy to get.  Drag the file to the Terminal window and the path is stuffed, presto!)

-- Jim

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