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Hi Glenn, Barbara
My No. 1 Son has raked me over the coals--virtually disowning me--ostensibly for having discouraged you switching from Bill to Mac, but I hope I haven't been unfair or exaggerated in my comparisons. While Apple has a few glitches just as Windows, except for a few problems that affect only a very small part of the population who seriously edit their email, it is vastly superior in many respects, especially of course in its immunity. I deeply resented my subscription to Norton and immensely grateful to LS for having persuaded me to switch and even agree with him that I should have done it much earlier
Therefore although in general Mac requires more keystrokes to do some common tasks, unless you do a lot of work in Mail I do recommend Apple. However, Mail totally lacks editing capability (as the Word overlap into Outlook) except for its speller, which however doesn't even recognize "te" as a misspelling of "the". So only if you do a lot of serious correspondence I would stick to Windows/Outlook
Eventually, however, Mac is going to realize his mistake and provide a transfer of Word capability to Mail so if you're willing to wait it out, I most certainly recommend a immediate switchover
Best to youall
Dale
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dear dale,
why do you importune us with this drivel?
best,
ron o.
p.s. - I hope I didn't slip a type-3 in on you there.
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dear dale,
why do you importune us with this drivel?
*****Because it drives you to distraction
best,
ron o.
p.s. - I hope I didn't slip a type-3 in on you there. ***Well at least you tried
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Mail totally lacks editing capability Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select all, Complete, Paste as Quotation, Paste and Match Style. what else do you need?
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Mail totally lacks editing capability Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select all, Complete, Paste as Quotation, Paste and Match Style. what else do you need? Glad you asked because it gives me a legitimate opportunity to further provoke tsu and his followers. Yes, the routine you cite is very roundabout compared to Outlook/Word capabilities and can stretch out the editing process for a single document from minutes to hours depending on how many times you spot another error and have to thus move it back and forth back and forth... ... though I believe you inadvertently omitted initial highlighting of the word or paragraph to be edited and another Select All between Cut and Copy As I probably mentioned earlierier I could live with the incompetence of its spellchecker (coincidentally Mac couldn't correct "earlierier" above) but in Mail I miss most acutely the inability to place macros in its taskbar. I had used as many as 105 macros in one past word processor, a terrific saving of keystrokes One that sticks in my mind coped with Word's annoying habit of every so often withdrawing all the spellcheck wigglies from a document, requiring a routine of 18 keystrokes to restore them, a process you had to repeat a few days to a week later when they again disappeared. Of course I was able to write a macro allowing me to get them back in a single keystroke Alas eta you and I are apparently among the few who so deeply resent the loss of editing capabilities or perhaps who even understand what we're talking about Anyone wishing to tear me to shreds, I am yours, dalehileman@me.com and apparently don't care who knows it
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