Den 07-03-2012 20:56, Eugenia Firth skrev:
Hi guys.
I have this friend who recently decided not to switch to a Mac. She
decided to get a Windows desktop, and she has Jaws 13 in it. So be@
this post is Mac related since my question for her is not, let me
relay my experiences this weekend trying to help her set something in
Excel.
I had set up a file for her to use for doing invoicing. She is going
to start working doing braille proofreading with one of my customers,
and she asked me for help. I created her some examples, and the most
important one to talk about here is Excel file I exported for her from
Numbers.
She called me on Sunday night to help her get an invoice turned in by
the next day. Neither of us knew we were going to have the trouble we
had.
Sighted people had never complained that they couldn't read any Excel
files I sent them, so I didn't expect any trouble. Jaws utterly
refused to read the file I gave her. Thinking that Jaws wasn't using
the proper configuration file under Jaws 13, we went looking for it.
We never found it, although I think it's there. We gave up on the
example file, and we called up Excel from the desktop, and Jaws
started reading the thing just fine. We then typed up everything from
scratch and saved the file. But, when she went back to read what she
had saved, nothing.
I ended up retyping her information again from my Mac, exporting the
file, and sending it to her so she could turn it in. She bought Office
2010 downloaded from Microsoft. Does anybody know if they did
something weird to it so it can't read these days with Jaws? I am so
glad I got rid of that thing. She was so frustrated that I didn't even
try to tell her how to set up Jaws to announce column and row
headings. It's so much easier to set that in Numbers by using the
header cokumns and header rows. She will be very grateful if any of
you guys knows something she can try. She wants do this thing once a
week. Since Office 2010 doesn't work on the Mac for us, I am
suspicious that when Jaws was updated, the configuration file doesn't
always work any more.
Regards,
Gigi
On Mar 7, 2012, at 5:44 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi,
I don't have answers to all of your questions, but I have both
Utorrent and adobe digital editions on my mac and they work great.
As far as your wifi, have you been doing your updates for mac OS? If
not, then I suggest you do them and see if that fixes your problem.
That should help with facebook as well. As far as facebook goes, I
have an account but really no interest in the thing. I had to teach
it to a client last month though, so I know they are rolling out a
new profile page. It's possible that things aren't working for you
because we're giving you instructions using the old look, and you've
been upgraded to the new one.
Then again, it's entirely possible the mac just isn't for you.
Personally, I want to self-mutilate every time I boot a windows
machine. I'll never go back, even with nvda being free and
effective. Windows performance is just painful.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
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On 2012-03-07, at 4:21 AM, Rahul Bajaj wrote:
Hi friends,
I don't post often here, but I regularly check all the posts.
I have a question.
I purchased my MacBook last July, so I've had it for more than 9 months.
A few months ago, I installed Windows on my Mac with the help of
Bootcamp.
So, the issue is that I'm always tempted to use Windows instead of
the Mac.
This is because of the following reasons:
1. On many occasions, I get an error message saying that my Internet
connection is not working properly.
If I try using Windows for using the Internet at the very same time,
then it works perfectly.
And, even on the Mac, the Internet starts working perfectly after
sometime, without me having to do anything.
2. I still haven't been able to figure out an easy and effective way
of using Facebook on the Mac, and I use Facebook a lot, so this is a
major issue for me.
Even most of the methods that are known to work with VO don't work for
me, so I often end up getting frustrated because of this.
3. As you all must be aware, there is no way of reading captchas on
the Mac with VO.
4. I read books by downloading them through Utorrent with the help of
Adobe Reader on Windows.
I haven't yet been able to successfully download Utorrent on my Mac.
And I haven't yet found any decent application for reading books on
the Mac.
So, those are my main concerns.
I'd love to use the Mac like all of you, but I somehow can't find a
way to deal with these problems.
And I just don't find any major reasons for using the Mac instead of
Windows.
I mean, people say that it's far better than Windows and all, but I
haven't been able to find even one accessible feature that is
available on the Mac, but not on Windows.
So, please do share your views and suggestions.
Cheers,
Rahul
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Hi,
If it is a new computer preloaded with the Office starter edition, a
very much scaled down Office version and in some way also with adds, and
you have to pay to update to the real Office suite. For some reason MS
has changed the application names jaws uses to load settings, this
causes jaws to load default scripts wich can work in Word but not at all
in Excel.
I am about to put the observation to FS.
Claus
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