Hi, Erik, I owe you, and everyone else on the list an apology. The message I sent to you was intended to be private, but it obviously wasn't.
It looks to me like I will keep having to Use Office under Windows since professionally, it still has some accessible features that I need and can't seem to get on a Mac program. Kindest regards to everyone, Mike On 3,Aug,2010, at 4:44 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi there, > > I saw it and cheered in the hopes that some one would come up with a better > answer than I have. > > I use open office to do my books and company paperwork. I have to say, that > calc rocks my world, but I only half-assed get along with writer. I'd love > to dig into it and make it my full time word processer, but to be honest, I > can't get past that each line in a seperate edit box thing. Based on earlier > reports from the mac visionaries group, this is the way it is, period, and I > just cant settle in and get comfortable with it. > > Sorry I don't have better news for you. I really wish some one had come out > with updated info on a fix, but as you saw, no one has had better luck than > we have. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > Check out my first ever podcast tutorial, Learn braille using the braille box. > Visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com and click podcasts to read more and > subscribe. > > On 2010-08-03, at 9:41 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > >> Hello Erik, >> >> You may have missed this note but then again, maybe not. I sent the >> following to the Macvisionaries List but didn't get any real helpful >> responses. I'm not trying to badger you at all, but you may have missed my >> note and you may have some thoughts. I would be curious to know if you have >> the same issues when using Open Office. >> >> I wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> I am running the latest version of Open Office and am having an annoying >> problem reading documents. >> >> Whenever I arrow up or down through a document, VO will make a soft clicking >> sound, say "edit Text" and then read the text on that particular line. >> Whenever I try to interact with the document, I am only permitted to >> interact with the line that I am currently on. >> >> Is there a way to change the behavior of either VO or Open Office to make >> listening to text easier as I arrow through it, or is this something with >> which one must live when using Open Office and VoiceOver? Are there any >> "must settings" in the View menu options that need to be taken into >> consideration? >> >> Thanks and best regards, >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
