Learning to use a Mac

[annavere]

I have a MacBook Air now, courtesy of my Windows laptop being on its last legs and my mother loving Apple products, so she gave it to me for Christmas. Not being at all tech-savvy, it has taken me this long to actually set it up, which was admittedly fairly straightforward. This is a test post, to try out the new keyboard.

I will be switching over slowly. Lots of bells and whistles. Browser stuff won't be hard to replicate, and I will eventually adapt to the disappearing scroll bar and other oddities.

Naturally, I am concerned for my writing, as this does not come with Wordpad. Everything I write gets backed up on Google Drive as well as an external hard drive, so I can presumably access it, but I need to learn whatever this fancy machine has for baseline writing options.

Anyone else have a Mac? :)

Comments

[brightknightie]

Are you perhaps looking for iOS TextEdit? https://support.apple.com/guide/textedit/welcome/mac

I used to use Mac laptops at work for years, until they switched us non-engineers wholly to Chromebooks several years back (engineers still have Mac or PC or Linux or whatever they need).

At home, well, I'm typing on a PC right now as I eat breakfast before work.

[annavere]

That could be helpful! It says it converts documents from other formats, which could help if importing from Wordpad gives me trouble. Thank you! I will look into it.

[killabeez]

I've been a Mac user since literally 1988, so happy to help. I've never settled on one writing platform; I use Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and Ellipsus. But happy to chat!

[annavere]

I am glad to know I can hit you with random Mac questions in the days to come. :)

[dswdiane]

Good luck. Apple is a total mystery to me. You certainly made this post work.

[annavere]

Thank you for the well wishes. It's a learning process!

[dswdiane]

Love your icon btw. Is that Erin?

[annavere]

That is actually Dr. Cassandra Railly, from the TV version of 12 Monkeys (a truly magnificent time travel show), in which she owned a bookshop and tried to save the world from an apocalypse cult. She does share some physical similarities with Erin, though. :)