Those who love the UI wouldn’t have it any other way and so, they don’t really care. Wanna theme those windows? No way! As with most things in life, this has two sides of the coin. You can’t change the fonts used or the size. Sure, you can change the selection colour and the size of the dock, but that’s about it. Hence, the purposeful limiting of user customizability. You can only feel at home if you are familiar with the interface. I suppose the mindset is probably something to the effect that any user should be able to use a Mac and feel at home. Of course, the Mac platform has always been about doing things one way.
Or perhaps, it’s tantamount to setting your display resolution to 1024×768 no matter what resolution your panel supports. How can it do this when they’ve purposely crippled the control panel to not allow customization to ones liking in even something as primal as the mouse movement? To me, this is tantamount to fixing the key repeat delay to 5 seconds at a rate of 10 characters per second and purposely not providing a vehicle to change the setting. But to me, something is wrong! The Mac platform is supposed to be providing the best user experience out of all operating systems. Many people have reported this problem and, likewise, equally many people have probably posted to say that nothing is wrong. I came back with the advent of Tiger where it was first reported that the mouse acceleration problem existed.
Somewhere between System 7 and OS X, I stopped using Macs. Back in the days of System 6 (6.1.3 was when I first got my own Mac-a MacSE), the mouse movement was normal. Now before critics slam me for this post, I should point out that this mouse movement wasn’t always a problem. I might add that as good as USB Overdrive is, the movement still doesn’t feel quite right. I struggled long and hard to adapt to the mouse acceleration curve but after a few months, I simply couldn’t handle it anymore and used USB Overdrive to alter the mouse movement behaviour. There are, no doubt, proponents of the movement that will say that this is the proper behaviour and that Apple got it right while everyone else screwed up but I disagree.
APA FORMAT ON MAC PAGES 2015 WINDOWS
The mouse acceleration and movement is simply too erratic and not very smooth compared to the Windows and Linux motions.
APA FORMAT ON MAC PAGES 2015 MAC OS X
Name this something like ‘APA Reference’, ensuring ‘Add to Quick style list’ is also selected, and click ok.Ever since Mac OS X 10.4, Apple did a disservice to the computing community by severely crippling the mouse movement behaviour. The selection will default to the format of the text you have selected (your reference), which is correct. Select a reference that you just formatted by dragging over it with your mouse You’ll likely add / remove references in the process of editing, so it’s best to save the reference style for quick application in the future. That’s it! Your references should be in good shape. Click ok.Į) Set your font to Times New Roman, size 12. This is the amount of space to leave between paragraph blocks. And unlike the rest of your paper they should be single spaced.ĭo NOT add tabs to do this, there’s a better way:Ī) Select all your references by dragging over them with your mouse.ĭ) In Spacing ensure line-spacing is ‘Single’, and enter ‘16pt’ in the field labelled ‘after’. Harvard Educational Review, 33(1) 1-20.ĪPA requires that all lines other than the first be ‘hanging’, that means indenting them by 1/2 inch.
Seeing as I’m usually the dogs-body who ends up fixing APA reference formatting on an almost weekly basis, I thought I’d document it so maybe my wife will learn how (hint hint). If you’re like my wife, you’ll likely start inserting tabs and newlines all over the place, but then if you ever have to edit your references you’ll end up with a mess you’ll have to fix manually, which can be frustrating. If you write a lot of academic papers in the social sciences (like my wife does) you’re likely going to have to manually format some references at one time or another.
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