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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: I honestly do not understand how people put up with Windows
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:51:48 -0700
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On 2024-08-30 16:42, -hh wrote:
> On 8/30/24 3:14 PM, Alan wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I'd not heard of 'content controls' before, so I did a quick Google:
> 
> 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

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.

> 
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> FWIW, another option is to install Parallels on one's Mac, and Windows 
> 11 (ARM version) therein.

Oh, I know.

> 
>>
>> But actually working on it is AWFUL.
>>
>> The screen is awful. The rendering of fonts is awful. The fluidity of 
>> the trackpad and pointer is awful.
>>
>> Using Word with a pointer that doesn't move fluidly is awful.
>>
>> Understand, this is not a problem with understanding how to use the 
>> Windows UI.
>>
>> I'm just comparing the quality of the experience of how it behaves 
>> against the gold standard...
>>
>> ...and it is coming up as dross.
> 
> 
> Understandable.  Adobe has been the same way at times too.
> 
> 
> -hh