well you all know how we like to tout Macs over Windows... sometimes opportunity falls in your lap and you relish the moment.<br><br>I just had one... been trying to convert several people and have from time to time told them how much easier Macs were.<br>Well this AM was a rare moment when someone was stuck in a loop in Windows and called for the Apple cavalry. I don't know WHY this happened but a colleague had a slide in MS PowerPoint he was trying to move from one presentation to a new one. He tried copying and pasting the components but could never get them to work. It allowed him to copy them but not to paste them on a new slide in the new Presentation. SO I asked him if he had them on his jump drive and he said, "of course"... <br>so I went and got my iBook, fired tha motha up, and plugged in the Jump drive... we opened both presentations and I conveniently slid the slide from one Presentation to the new one - BAM !! DONE !! <br>... his mouth hit the floor !! (can you say Kodak moment) ..."you can do that??" , he asked.<br>"all the damm time" I replied... (NOT rocket science to us Mac users!)<br><br>he was SPEECHLESS because the slide had about 12 components and he was trying to cut and paste each... he could only get 1 or 2 to work but the graphic parts would not "paste". {I have NO clue why.}<br><br>I politely reiterated-- "you gotta get free from Windows" ...<br>I also threw in "even MS own programs behave better on a Mac than they do their own OS !"<br><br>We'll see if it does any good.<br><br>David (OFI)

Too bad you didn't have a camera handy.<br><br>

I know... I was pissed.....<br><br>I couldn't get my iPhone out fast enough ! <br><br>David (OFI)

You should tell them that what you did was a one-time only event and that if they needed more Windows support, to call their IT. <br><br>my beer blog

.... call their IT."<br><br>yeah Idiot Technologists.... around here they fix one thing in Windows or the LAN and break 3 more.... they generate a ticket for each job.... <br><br>yes job, not PC ... so it insures "job security"... <br><br>and costs the taxpayers MORE !! <br><br>David (OFI)

That's what I mean. And so hopefully they see the light and get themselves a mac!<br><br>my beer blog

That's Sweet, ain't it?<br><br>I did the same with a long time unconvertible lately.<br><br>The, e-hem, 'DIFFERENCE' had been a soar-spot in our relationship<br>until she came to me asking if I could redo a page previously done in <br>Power Point that she'd been given to display the "Butterfly Release" <br>she and her husband had done at the garden where she volunteers at:<br><br>BEFORE & AFTER<br><br>She's since become a bit more accepting of Mac-Abilities too. <br><br><br>"One Small Step..."<br>ROCK ON <br><br><br><br><br>

Geee I dunno... the "After" gives my stomach "butterflies" <br><br>all kidding aside... yeah the difference is "night and day "...<br><br>same as the differnece between Windows and OS X.<br><br>I can't wait until Leopard arrives and really blows VISTA to Zune and back !! <br><br>David (OFI)