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On 8/30/24 3:14 PM, Alan wrote:What's maddening about this is that it really appears that it's just a matter of not bothering to include the user interface elements to work with them on the Mac.I've been forced to use a Windows PC lately to do some work in Word where Microsoft has not seen fit to provide the same UI in Word for macOS as it has in Word for Windows; specifically surrounding what they now call "Content Controls" and which any normal person would call form fields.I'd not heard of 'content controls' before, so I did a quick Google:
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It's not that the feature doesn't exist in the Mac version of Word—it sort of does, but there is no user interface for creating or modifying the content controls on the Mac. Microsoft just left them out! So, a Windows PC has become necessary to do this work.
This looked promising...
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/word/content-controls-in-word>
and sure, it does explain the basics, but what's of note is that first line:
"Learn how Microsoft Word 2013 content controls enable..."
Word 2013? So the element has been around for a decade, yet has still not made it into all of their Word platform versions!
What's next? "MacOS-Access"? /s
Oh, I know.>FWIW, another option is to install Parallels on one's Mac, and Windows 11 (ARM version) therein.
And I'm doing so on a somewhat dated surplus PC I got from one of my clients, but it's a decent midr-range machine: a Lenovo T450s first released in 2015. And I've updated it to Windows 10.
>Understandable. Adobe has been the same way at times too.
But actually working on it is AWFUL.
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The screen is awful. The rendering of fonts is awful. The fluidity of the trackpad and pointer is awful.
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Using Word with a pointer that doesn't move fluidly is awful.
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Understand, this is not a problem with understanding how to use the Windows UI.
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I'm just comparing the quality of the experience of how it behaves against the gold standard...
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...and it is coming up as dross.
-hh
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