Please help with doing something simple on Apple Mac

[Elf]

Our Apple Mac is new and the simplest things are driving me mad. For instance, how do you centre text? Just on a normal Word document? I don't seem to have the tool bar thing across the top of the page which I would with a PC. I could really do with that row of very helpful options, do they have that with an Apple Mac? Thank you someone in advance.

You should have a Text Inspector, click on that and then centre text. Can you see it?

It's a blue circle with an I in the middle, top right. Have you got Pages?

Also there are keyboard shortcuts too, but I think you should go meet the Inspector first.

Have you bought and installed Microsoft Office for MAC? I'm guessing you haven't and you are using the Apple wordprocessing programme which I struggled with too at the beginning.

Installing Office is well worth the money because it means you have Word and Excel etc that are familiar and shareable with the rest of the world without the formatting shifting, but you still have the MAC and all its benefits.

Only now do I realise that all the intimidating confusing stuff about computers is more to do with PCs and Microsoft, getting a MAC was the best move I've made.

Someone will probably come along with a better answer, as I am no geek - but I do like my MAC.

Good luck

I love my Mac - they are so much better.

Also I don't have Word, and can usually drop Word documents into Pages.

Have you found the Text Inspector - or is that only on Pages?

If you are working in Word, select 'Formatting Palette' in the 'View' menu and look under 'Alignment and spacing'.

Sorry if that's a really obvious answer. Have never worked in the generic Mac Word-type program.

I'm a complete Mac snob, me, by the way. Wouldn't go near a PC.

If you are working in Word, select 'Formatting Palette' in the 'View' menu and look under 'Alignment and spacing'.

Sorry if that's a really obvious answer. Have never worked in the generic Mac Word-type program.

I'm a complete Mac snob, me, by the way. Wouldn't go near a PC.

Oops.

That rather undermines any technical advice from me, doesn't it?

ahundretimes - you sound more confident on the pages thingy than I ever got, I had to edit a word document full of diagrams and formatting in my first few weeks on a Mac, it drove me CRAZY!!!

I do love my Mac - not sure why I wrote it with capitals, I also love MAC and I have to treat myself a lipstick or something whenever I go through Heathrow!

Hope it goes well Elf

You can follow Bobot, and for the next time drop down the VIEW menu then go to TOOLBARS and add on any tools you want to keep out on your doc as 'normal'. IT should save these additions til next time

TBH I always think any microsoft pg has an inbuilt 'I don't like you, you're not made by bill gates' air to itself but I'm probably just being paranoid!

'boTbot' And looking back I'm not sure my post made any sense at all, sorry its too early for me....

macs ace

we use Open Office for mac now rather than microsoft word/ excel etc

it is a free download

in your face, Bill

Dh has installed Neo Office on our Mac , but I don't know exactly where he got it from - I think it's freeware. Keeps needing patches on it when bits go wrong though -teething troubles. Looks just like Office.

thanks for trying to help everyone. I've just read the posts and then gone back to a document and there is no text inspector or anything and I am getting annoyed with it all. so I think later I will try again and then probably ask more questions. thank you.

Elf,

Have you tried "Command-|" keyboard short cut?

Regards,

Rob...