On 11/12/2010, at 10:49 AM, Lloyd White wrote:
> > Hi everyone. > > I have just upgraded to MS Office 2011 from 2008 version. > Some of the "improvements" annoy me - like the inability to "tear off" the > colour palette in Word. I can't find a way to do this. > I used this feature a lot for editing and making sections in colour. Pages > is even worse with this. > > Another gripe is that it will not open any of my files with a / in the > name. :-(( > This is a problem which is not restricted to MS Word, but crops up in many third party (non-Apple) products, mainly owing to the fact that the slash character (/) is generally discouraged in filenames because of its use as a delimiter in POSIX pathnames (eg /MyHardDrive/Users/Library/). Mac OS X deals with the slash in a special way, and therefore it is possible to get away with it in many circumstances, but certainly not all. I always try to discourage users from using it because of the problems it causes. In fact, in many cases, even in many highly Mac OS-compliant programs, you will find that the slash character is replaced with a dash when the file is actually saved. Try to get into the practice of using the dash (hyphen) character or the underscore in place of a slash in filenames. The only other character you absolutely must not use in filenames is the colon (:), but this has always been the case on the Mac, since the colon was always used as the delimiter in Classic Mac OS pathnames. Any other character than the colon or the slash is legal, which also causes problems if you intents sending your file to a Windows user, where the number of legal characters in filenames is more restrictive. > > But my main problem is copying -or cutting - and pasting in Word. > When I copy text and paste it - using the Apple keyboard shortcuts- C and > V - into a different part of the document or into another document it > comes out in underlined blue as a hyperlink to the original text. Which > has to be removed. > I don't know what is happening here. I can't reproduce the problem in my copy. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
