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When I switched away from MS Office apps to Apple's equivalents, it was such a pain googling for help in "Numbers" and "Pages". The app names are so generic it
by 8ig8 13y ago
When I switched away from MS Office apps to Apple's equivalents, it was such a pain googling for help in "Numbers" and "Pages". The app names are so generic it was frustrating finding relevant results.
How do I "insert page numbers in Pages"?
How do I "round down in Numbers"?
Edit: I guess "Word" is not much better.
- benbou09 13y agoIndeed... How do people google stuff like C or Go ?
- spurgu 13y agoWhen I studied Go I found that searching for "golang" instead worked well.
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoC is a highly famous language, so it's actually really easy. Biggest problem might be to get irrelevant results for C++, in that case you just use search operators and wrap "C" in quotation marks.
- hfsktr 13y agoWith Word and the like you can put 'ms' in front at least. The biggest issue I have when searching (for things I don't know the proper name for) is when punctuation is part of the search. Even with quotes it seems to ignore question marks and exclamation points and it feels really unnatural to type 'exclamation exclamation' for a search.
- seagrass 13y agoWeb search for programmers: http://www.symbolhound.com/ http://www.symbolhound.com/
- 3pt14159 13y agoYeah, but when googling back then you would do msword.
- rbritton 13y agoPrefixing the application's name has usually helped in my searches. For example, "round down in apple numbers". Smaller scale applications I've had more trouble with though: almost any search for help with Sketch returns a ton of results for SketchUp.
- 8ig8 13y agoCoincidently, I was investigating Sketch last week. I ran into the same issue. I ended up using "Sketch App" in my queries with mixed results. Similar to your suggestion, I also tried tacking on "Bohemian" -- as in Bohemian Coding -- the app's developers.