Wasted a Half Hour This Morning Trying to Figure Out Headers and Toolbox on Microsoft Word 2011 for my Mac

I'm trying to write a book but my creativity was thrown out the window after I replaced my old Word with the 2011 version. Talk about going down a rabbit hole of unnecessary complexity and confusion. I've been on several sites trying to summon the toolbar so I can simply insert page numbers with the # sign. Now I've got to pick up my girls at preschool.

Thanks, Word 2011, for an unproductive morning. I'm going to check out Google Drive.

Comments

[Gary]

Whenever I get a new version of Office (or most other major software programs), I often find too many features changed for no reason. Usually a Google search will tell me how to do what I need to do.

BTW, were you referring to Google Drive or Google Office?

[Angelo]

I can't stand when my work computer is updated by our I.T. department. Gary is right on target---gratuitous changes make things really miserable.

[herculodge]

I've been to Google word processing just recently and don't know if it's Drive or Office, but I see on my bookmarks it says Drive. I should check out Office.

[herculodge]

This YouTube video showed me how . . . finally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9jTNTsetl8

[A. Black]

I am not sure if the following is the case in this particular instance but I have found with Microsoft that often even if the outward appearance of some feature has changed if you know the keystroke sequence to use the feature then its still the same.

[Gary]

I think it's actually called Google Docs. I was mixing it up with OpenOffice.

Here are a bunch of MS Office alternatives.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-microsoft-office-alternatives/