Hi Brian Some people on this list of said that they like the program called tables. I have not used it myself because I am been able to work around the problems that we've discussed. I can see that if you use numbers for hours a day, it would be a definite problem. I don't know if I would call numbers and excel inaccessible, but I would call them difficult to use these days If you have large files. Gigi
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 23, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have had several problems with numbers since the mountain lion > updated, and emailed apple accessibility a few weeks back. I never > heard anything as I did express my disappointment with how poor an > apple product like numbers worked with VO. I finally heard back from > Apple and they said Numbers hasn't been updated in several years to > reflect the changes in operating systems, and they currently can't say > when numbers will be updated. Very frustrating and disappointing. I > think Apple should place a disclaimer on the product, as it is very > misleading. I work with large spreadsheets, so would love to hear > about some alternative options since I feel both numbers and excel are > pretty non accessible. > > On Nov 18, 6:56 am, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear Listers, >> >> I've searched the archives of googlegroups for the answer but failed to find >> one. >> >> My spreadsheet is now over 100 rows long and it is growing. Increasingly, >> Numbers has become extremely sluggish, so much so that it is driving me mad. >> The constant "busy busy" message, the sluggishness with which I can move >> from cell to cell is making me think that I won't be able to use Numbers any >> more for the purpose of working with long spreadsheet tables. Is there >> another solution? Does anyone else experience the same issue? I've switched >> off autocomplete text in cells and it has initially improved the issue but >> the longer my spreadsheet becomes, the more impossible it is to use Numbers. >> I've tried Tables application but it is even worse so I have to ditch it. >> Also, with my spreadsheet having so many rows, it takes ages to arrow up and >> down the columns to get to the end of the table in order to enter more data. >> Adn And again, when arrowing up and down, Numbers is very slow and >> eventually Voiceover gets stuck on one particular cell and keeps repeating >> its content over and over again unless I arrow up and down very very slowly. >> >> I'd welcome any suggestions. I'd be reluctant to have to install Fusion but >> if this is the only option, I may have to. But then I'd have to buy Ms >> Office which is very expensive. >> >> In case it helps, I run Mountain Lion on Macbook Air, 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 >> Duo, 4GB RAM, 256 GB solid drive. Does Numbers perform better on newer >> machines? I understand I can't add more RAM to my macbook air. It's late >> 2010 and I have the maximum RAM possible. >> >> Many thanks for any suggestions >> >> Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
