Microsoft Office Live Small Business Community

I've recently handed over the inputting of new list items to the man I built the site for (bobfreedmanarranger.com.)  I use a Windows machine...he uses a Mac.  He couldn't figure out how to make some text bold in the one field I told him he can do that in, so I sent him an image of the screen and explained to him in a way that probably sounded like a kindergarten teacher..."OK, select the text you want bold and click on the little "B" right above the editing box."  He sent me an image from HIS screen...NO RIBBON SHOWS UP ABOVE THE EDIT BOX!"  He tried both Safari and Firefox.  I've now gone to my husbands' Mac and tried it myself...NO RIBBON!  I am still on the Mac writing this post and THERE IS A RIBBON HERE!

Do I need to do anything special to allow Safari / Firefox users access to the formatting toolbar that I take for granted under IE?

Is there any justification at all for the Mac faithful to continue believing their platform is superior?!  (Sorry - I don't mean to offend anyone...especially if you can help me.  I had the very first Apple Lisa - predecessor to the Mac for all you youngsters -  in the city of Boston was on my desk, alongside my dual-floppy PC.  It was great for lots of things the PC hadn't learned to do yet.)  I spent more time trying to figure out how to make my app look the same on Safari and Firefox as it did on IE7 than I spent building the app to begin with!

Thanks...and sorry again for the venting!

-Wendy

I misstated on one thing...He can't even get into OfficeLive using Safari (and neither can I.)  A window comes up saying it is only available on IE or Firefox.  Has that always been the case?

-Wendy

Wendy,

Yes, Office Live has always been like that - it can't be used with Safari or Opera.

A better question to ask would be why Microsoft doesn't provide better support for Mac users, but you probably know the answer to that one already. :)

Some features are not supported on the Mac, even if you use Firefox (which Office Live supports), i.e. activating third-party design tool will not give you a link to your web folder on the Mac.

Royster

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So -- any idea why the formatting toolbar is available under Firefox here in this Discussion Group, but not in the business app?

-Wendy

Becuase they are not the same formatting bar. Visually, they may look very similar, but the implementation is different. You can still use HTML tags in the business app though, i.e. <bold>Title</bold>.  I guess Microsoft's answer would be to buy a Windows PC.:)

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