Using Characters in Mac

In Office 2011 for Mac, you can "show the media browser"

then click the "Symbols"

But you only have very very... I mean very... limited characters in the Symbol browser.

Ok! Here's what you should do if you need more like how I need them. Click on your "input source button"

Then click "Show Character Viewer" and here you go!!! All the characters you need are here:

Ok! Another Thing You CANNOT Do in Word for Mac!

I'm running Word 2011 in Macbook Pro 13" Lion and I use Word with Mathtype a lot. Sometimes when I am editing papers with equations and Word tries to complete its autosave routines, it gives me this error meesage: "The disk is full trying to write to macintosh hd."

Wait a second, I have 750G space and 8G ram in this super laptop and now you are telling me you cannot save! WTF? Why is it so hard to save?

After googling for answers, I found this (link)

So now I have to practice to open the equation for copying instead of directly copying the equation objects. WTF!

Non't Spend Your Time To Reorganize Your Launchpad in Mac

After using Mac (Macbook Pro 13" running in Lion) for a while, you may see couple issues in Launchpad but don't panic!
1. Disappear icons
2. Disappear items (like a blank Launchpad)

All you need to do to reset all theses is to reboot BUT... Here comes the BUT!!!!

All icons and items in Launchpad will be reorganized into default orders. So STOP organizing your apps and items in Launchpad because they will be reordered some day!

Orz...

Move your Equation Editor to Trash and install Mathtype (for Mac)

I was a PC user, now move on to Mac. I write technical articles with lots of math equations so Mathtype has been one of my best friends in my works. When I move on to Mac, I installed Microsoft Word for Mac and Mathtype. Everything works perfectly in the beginning but I then start to find some annoying issues!

List of issues with Mathtype in Word for Mac:
1. When you open a Word file with all the Mathtype equations inside, you may double click on them to edit. However, the double clicking enables the Equation Editor in Word and also converts them to Microsoft equations!! Orz... I tried many different things but they never convert back to Mathtype equations.
2. When you create a Mathtype equation using those Mathtype functions, it sometimes initiate the Equation Editor not the Mathtype editor which is very annoying! Again, even if you successfully create an equation by Mathtype, Word may convert it to Microsoft equation soon and you have the issue #1 again!

Solution:
1. Drop your Equation Editor to trash.
2. Reinstall Mathtype.
3. Everything works perfectly now and you never need to worry about equation editing in Word for Mac anymore!

Nonbreaking space in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011

The hot key for nonbreaking space in Word-Mac is Option+Shift+Space!!

Btw, the hot key for nonbreaking space in Word for PC is Ctrl+Shift+Space.