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Office 365 for mac look7/5/2023 ![]() There’s our Find and Replace! Choose “ Replace…” and the entire screen changes rather dramatically: Not only is this a functional search, but if you click on the magnifying lens icon a second time, it pops up a tiny menu: Look closely on the very top right and you’ll see the magnifying lens along the top blue titlebar. So where the heck is Find and Replace? You can try perusing each and every ribbon, but it never shows up in any obvious place, leaving many users to scratch their heads in confusion.īut this is a Windows interface ported to the Mac so Microsoft does something that no native Mac developer would do: It utilizes the title bar for buttons and capabilities, including, you guessed it, a find function. It’s free to download and read through Project Gutenberg, if you’re intrigued.Ī glance along the top offers the following main ribbons: Home, Insert, Draw, Design, Layout, References, Mailings, Review, View, Tell me. In this instance, I’m doing some formatting on the classic Frederik Pohl sci-fi short story The Tunnel Under the World, as originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction back in 1955. Launch Microsoft Word on your Mac system and it’s a big, bright window with the “ribbon” toolbar along the top that changes depending on what kind of task you seek to accomplish: Let’s check it out! STANDARD FIND AND REPLACE IN WORD It’s confusing, but I believe the logic is that the typical Windows-type interface is accessible, but if you’re already a Mac fanatic, you can access the alternative – more powerful! – search and replace feature. ![]() It turns out that since you’re using the Mac version of Microsoft Word, there are two completely different versions of Find and Replace available. All manageable if you have a bit of patience to figure it all out. While “windowing” is similar across the two, there are definite differences in shortcuts, keystrokes, and even how the mouse or trackpad works. I also have to say that switching operating systems is a big deal too, so props to you for figuring it all out with your migration from Windows to MacOS. As it’s increased in sophistication, however, it’s also gained in complexity, so it’s no wonder you’re having a hard time finding what would seem to be a pretty core feature for the program. Did you know that it was first called Multi-Word Tool and was initially released in 1983? That’s almost 40 years ago at this point, during which time it’s grown quite a bit and gained about a half-million features and capabilities. For this, we can search in the App Store for Feitian and download the app BioPassFIDO2.Microsoft has been developing Word and the rest of the Office suite for quite a while, actually. I have a Feitian K26 USB C FIDO2 (Bio) key which I want to manage on my MacBook. I described these steps in this blog post. To use a FIDO2 security key with your Office 365 account, some setup needs to be done in Azure AD. Let’s have a look in this article, how easy it is to set up our Feitian FIDO2 key to passwordless sign in to our Office 365 account. ![]() I haven’t seen such an application yet from another vendor, but let me know in the comments if other vendors do have such an app for macOS. To overcome this limitation for Mac users, one of the FIDO2 vendors, Feitian, published an application to manage their keys. That support isn’t available in macOS by default. We can add or change a PIN via Windows settings, and also reset the key. ![]() On Windows, we have built-in support to manage a key. The only challenge left for a Mac-only user is how to manage the key. On macOS, we are not able to sign in to the Mac itself by using a FIDO2 key, but by using the Microsoft Edge browser, we’re at least able to use a FIDO2 key to passwordless sign-in to Office 365! With Safari, this is unfortunately still not possible. I described how to use FIDO2 security keys to sign in to Windows itself or use the key to sign in to Office 365/ Azure AD. I have written some articles in the past related to the p asswordless sign-in subject, but that usually described to experience on Windows devices. ![]()
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