RE: Offtopic - Apple Macs

From: <Javeed>
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 23:50:00 EDT

You are absolutely right. As I had submitted in the mail, its been a long long time since. For sure, the info should be discrete. I actually mentioned the wrong key in place of Control. It is probably the 'Apple' key that helps perform a couple of shortcuts. Am I right. Correct me, pl.

Regards,

  -----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:54 PM To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Offtopic - Apple Macs

> > Let us hope they are far
> >better now. They used to be good then.

> They are and they were. Appleworks comes bundled with the machine and a
> lot of other good software. If she needs MS Office that's available. The
> bundled web browser, Safari, is far better than Netscape and faster than
> Internet Exploder, and the Mail application (also bundled) is fabulous.
> If you want to go over to her place and play UNIX, you can do that, too.
>
> >Some shortcuts like the ones for 'Paste' function vary from MS
applications.
> > Control P gives command for
> >'paste' unlike 'print' in other

> To quibble a bit, the cut and paste functions don't vary from Windows
> except they don't use the control key and they always work the same in
> every application, unlike Windows. Command-P is the universal hot key to
> print, not paste.

That's another potential issue; make sure the ISP is Mac-friendly and has good techs. If you're using Windows and she has a problem and calls you for help, you may not be able to walk her through the solution.

Paul



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