A little off topic from Mac, but about MS Word. I am not and have not be a fan of MS Word, mainly because I never could figure out the user help nor ever learned the lingo for finding how to do what I wanted. That said, we had some genius guys with our organization that made forms from MS Word that could do better chart things than I could with Excel. And they could do things in word processing form on Excel than I could with Word. We used an Excel form that calculated currency exchange rates and adjustments in expense forms from just about any country of the world.
I loved what those guys could do, but I never "got it".
As to Mac, In 1989, I was tired of handwriting 5 to 10 page long Japanese documents! Japanese word processors were a pain; no standardized keyboards in Japanese at the time. Japanese computerese was not meant for layman's use. I started researching and found a Japanese OS for the Mac with ENGLISH instructions - from a California company. Japan's early Window's machines did not do bilingual processing easily and NO English instructions. The Mac's did, with the pressing of Command + Space, one could change from English to Japanese and then back to English.
I bought Mac, ordered the Japanese OS with English instructions and have been using one since. I did start using PCs and Windows from the mid 90's along with my Macs, but they have always seemed discombobulated to me. They were created and designed for the tech people, not the end office user. Macs were meant for the end user, not the tech user. I began using the Mac for English and Japanese and even my Japanese friends were amazed at how fast I could input Japanese. I later learned that it was because I was an experienced typist and knew the American QUERTY keyboard. Japanese did not have a standardized keyboard and as a result everything was hunt and peck for them. And early Windows PC machines required shutting down and re-starting to switch from Japanese to English in the same document - until the mid-90's.
Today's Macs are not quite as simple as the early ones were. I sure miss Steve Jobs. As he said on many occasions: Anyone can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
