[macvoiceover] Re: Open Office good news, sort of!

Russell,
As some one said earlier, it is a work in progress, but, I think it will save your formatting in tact. 

Keith Reedy


God gives His best to those who leave the Choice with Him.
J Hudson Taylor.

On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:


Hi Keith & all
I briefly tried the Word processor in Open Office, but found VO readin a lot of extra information when arrowing through a document. It says things like "edit text, insertion is at beginning of line" after reading the text of each line. I haven't played with it too much yet so will give it another go. 

Thanks,

Russell
On 11-Aug-09, at 9:32 AM, Keith Reedy wrote:


Hi Russell,
If you want to save the formatting, even though it is a bare to use, you mite want to use the wordprocesser in OO, IMHO. 

Keith Reedy


God gives His best to those who leave the Choice with Him.
J Hudson Taylor.

On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:


Hi Keith,
I hope this is the case! Keith, if I open an MS Word document in Text Edit, can I edit the document, and then save it and preserve the original formatting, or is Text Edit not capable of dealing with some of Words formatting? 

Thanks,

Russell
On 11-Aug-09, at 6:22 AM, Keith Reedy wrote:


Russell,
I really believe that iWork will be improved in SnowLeopard. Just hang in there, we are all hopeing. 

Keith Reedy


God gives His best to those who leave the Choice with Him.
J Hudson Taylor.

On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:02 AM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:


Hi all,
I just downloaded and installed Open Office. I have some good news, and not so good news.
First, the good news... it looks like the spreadsheet application is quite accessible. VO reads the cell coordinates as well as the contents of a cell that you move into. I tried Numbers, in the i"Works suite, and was very disappointed to find that the only way to get the contents of a cell announced is to interact with it, and I don't think the coordinates are read at all! So I was quite excited to see that the Open Office, spreadsheet, at least at first blush, seems to be accessible.
Now, for the not so good news. I tried opening one of my database files created in MS Access, and it wasn't accessible at all. I just got a lot of numbers, interspersed with the words, "jet database" or something to that effect.
I also opened a word document created in MS Word 2007, and for some reason, each time I press the down arrow to read the next line, VO will read the line, and then say things like, "edit text, insertion at beginningof line". This makes it difficult to read a document. Also, VO A doesn't read the document continuously. There may be some settings that need to be changed, and I will play more when time permits! <grin> 

HTH

Russell


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