That "fair job" is what confuses me. I'd love to know just what Word/Jaws will do that Pages/VO will not, and why people love one over the other. I had to teach someone Word a few months ago, and I had to learn it myself at the same time... It was awful! The ribbon was hard to navigate, changing fonts was confusing and tedious, and something as simple as adding a header was downright arduous.
By contrast, I can insert a header and footer in about two seconds in Pages, and it took me only a minute to successfully insert a footnote, even though I've never done that before. VO even jumped right to the footnote text, and announced when it encountered the footnote in my document with a special sound and the words "footnote 1". I've never used either Word or Pages for heavy lifting, so to speak, but my relatively brief intros to both seem to indicate that pages is laid out sensibly and is easy to use, where Word is tedious and confusing. Maybe it's just me. Again, I'm asking on behalf of someone who asked me on Twitter, not for myself. Thanks! On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > it'll probably do fine for your limited needs. as far as format checking, you > can set VO to announce format changes and use that to format check the > document. I just bought pages after being a die hard MS word/JAWS user. I > still am, but I'm looking into Pages and it looks like it'll do a fair job > for word processing. > > On Mar 21, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Someone on Twitter was asking me about getting a Mac for college. One >> concern was word-processing, and whether Pages and Voiceover is good enough >> for papers, resumes, that sort of thing. I don't use Pages much, so I can't >> answer accurately, but I know people on here do. So, how is Pages (the >> Mavericks version) compared with, say, Jaws or NVDA with MS Office? What can >> you *not* do? What is easier? >> >> I've used Pages some, and I love that the header, body, and footer are all >> separate areas visible at once. However, I've not gone beyond a basic, blank >> template, except to look at a flyer layout and get very confused. I have no >> need for page headers, numbering, inserting tables or images, and other >> advanced features. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
