I’ve been a huge Apple fanboy since the first iPod came out, followed by my purchase of the 3g iPhone in 2008, and the retina MacBook Pro in 2012 as well as the 27″ iMac when they redesigned it in 2012. Unfortunately, my employers in the past have not been up to the trend, and required me to use a PC which I have always hated. I recently had the opportunity to exclusively use a Mac for work purposes. Let me give you some background:
-99% of the work I do is in the cloud – I implement cloud software solutions for businesses and all of the tools we use, EXCEPT Office are cloud-based tools
-Our company is 100% Microsoft Office (no Google docs, pages, etc.)
-Because most of my work is in the web I have a lot of tabs open all the time and sometimes windows as well
I have been struggling with a few issues, and I’m hoping that people who switched from PC’s to Macs have some workarounds or tips that can help make my life easier, because hands down I am already more productive on my Mac.. No more system freezing up in the middle of Zoom meetings, which happened almost every day on my Windows laptop.. No more app delays, smooth scrolling, web pages load MUCH faster on the M1 Air then they did on the i5 laptop.
Issues I am struggling with:
-Full screen – I want to make a window “full screen” without it actually switching to “full screen” mode. I am constantly having to drag the Safari window around to get it the size I want it to be.
-Disappearing windows – often times Safari windows will disappear and I struggle to try and get them to come back into focus on my main monitor
-Switching from laptop (clamshell mode) back to dock – I have the Hyper Dual 4K HDMI hub – for the most part it works great, but often times the windows disappear when plugging back into the hub
-“Right” mouse click actions in Microsoft Office – let’s be honest, the Mac was originally built with a single button mouse, so not a lot of effort has ever been put into this, but there are so many things I can’t right mouse click in Office on a Mac but can on a PC including inserting rows into a table in Word
-In general, everything I do in Office seems like a struggle compared to using it on a PC. Maybe I just need to “unlearn” everything I learned about MS office on the PC and re-learn it on the Mac… Or, should I just suck it up and install parallels desktop w/ Windows and Office on it and edit everything in Windows? LOL
Aside from that, all seems to be good, cloud apps work the same on every web browser, so it’s very easy to switch from one platform to another when it comes to other programs, but when my boss asks me to edit a 120 page Word document I now cringe.. And yes, I do need the collaboration functionality of comments, markup, and revision control so that’s what kind of locks me to using Office unless someone has another solution.
Thank you for reading and any tips and advice you can give to help! I am not adverse to learning keyboard shortcuts BTW, I grew up using WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 (yep, I’m dating myself here)
Source: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/switch-from-windows-to-mac-some-real-world-problems.2329574/