Hi Donna,Actually, when it comes to Word formatted documents, you have a few options. I use Open Office for my invoice files because the table formatting is beautifully kept, and, in fact, I find working with the files easier than I did in MS Word in Windows. Pages, which is part of the iWork suite from Apple handles Word documents well, as does a free Word Processor, Bean. Then, of course, Text Edit, which is a part of the Mac OS, can do so with .rtf files.
To be honest, I like the multiple solution approach, as I will use a specific application for a specific document type. For example, as I said, my invoice files have me using Open Office for them, and I can easily find the various fields for customer information, item pricing, etc. Open Office also has a spreadsheet program that is as good as Tables, another spreadsheet application accessible on the Mac. I have not used the database part of Open Office yet, but I am told that works well. I don't think every area of Open Office is accessible, but it is certainly easily usable and I have not found anything that has made it difficult to use with VoiceOver. One oddity of it, just because I know it will come up, is how it handles documents with paragraphs and sections. It seems to consider them separate text areas, so it take s a little practice and getting used to to attain a flow in using it. I'd try it out and see for yourself how you find it.
Take Care John Panarese On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hi John,I'm wriiting this in follow up to your post to this list re switching to a Mac. You mention that you use Open Office. How do you find it in terms of the Word Processing? One lingering concern I have about the Mac is that Iwork a lot with Word Docs for my job, so the fact that MS Office isn'taccessible has worried me. Do you use Open Office for Word Processing? Are you able to work easily with Word docs, and exchange those docs with others?Are there any aspects of Open Office that are not accessible? Thanks for any info you can provide. Best, DonnaClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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