Thanks for this analysis. I need to try Word again on my MBP. I have Office 360, or is that 365? I can never keep that one in my head. Anyway, I tried Word initially and couldn’t get the VO cursor out of the header.
I wasn’t making any progress with Excel either an d I use it daily for what I consider mini data bases, i.e., spreadsheets that are laid out as tables and that can be sorted and parsed like a database. I do like Outlook mail on the Mac but need to use it more often as it’s not exactly intuitive. The other thing I do is to access our network drive much like you would with windows Explorer, which is what I use now to do so. I just exchange files on that drive and draw from it current versions of my spreadsheets which are updated each night. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com > On Aug 10, 2016, at 7:11 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have recently made the switch myself. I don’t use Excel regularly but I do > use Word. The good news is that all of the familiar formatting tools and > tricks are available on the Mac version. The Bad news is you may have > trouble figuring out how to get at them. On the one hand Microsoft may be > applauded for recognizing that Mac users who are used to the way it works > will expect the same behavior from any program running on it. On the other > hand, those of us who are used to the way it works in Windows and have > perhaps customized it to our way of working will have a harder time making > the adjustment. What I miss most are the shortcuts I used. The Ribbon on > the Mac is not quite the same and doesn’t have the same level of hotkey > access. You do get some of the navigation that’s more familiar, but I have > had a very annoying problem with losing Voiceover focus when going from page > to page and especially after performing some function that required going to > the ribbon. VO lands in the header region of the document and does not keep > your place when you get back to the body. Maybe there is something a more > experienced Mac user can tell me that would help with that. Still I find it > more familiar and straightforward to use than Pages, though that may be due > to lack of familiarity with Pages. Having said all of that, I am still glad > to have left Windows behind and have no plans for going back. Now in a > couple of weeks when I need to do another outline, that may test my resolve. > >> On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:03 PM, Jenine Stanley <dragonwalke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I’d like to hear experiences using the current versions, Office 2016, of >> Word and Excel with El Capitan. 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