Whether we give up on Apple and return to the Microsoft fold remains to be seen. Needless to say, we are now migrating back to the prior iWork version to stem the productivity loss. That is partly why we started to migrate our work from Powerpoint to Keynote, about 10 years ago, and later from Excel and Word to Numbers and Pages.Īpple's novel implementation of dynamic floating pallets increased our productivity over the sort of semi-static floating pallets that characterized Microsoft Office and still do. That is why, as an invention, it was so useful. One must constantly take one's sight off the "ball. With the new fixed inspector, on a 27" Mac screen, one's eyes must move about 12" to the right to select the tool, and then move 12" or more to the left, to see the results of any such action. ![]() Apple's super slick spreadsheet app for Mac A well designed pallet not only reduces the time, motion, and hassle associated with getting work done. The new fixed "inspector" at the right-hand of the screen is not. The floating pallet or "inspector" was an innovation.
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