RE: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-11 Thread Simon A Fogarty
:48 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Microsoft word on the Mac. Hello Mr. Carlson, yes that is correct let me explain. When you have office 365 you have the choice of either using the web version of an application or the version of the application that you actually install. Or

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-10 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Hello David. I did actually have problems using the word application on the Mac yesterday as I was trying to update my CV. I was also trying to use the Braille display with it but I found that voice-over was not always tracking what the speech said I E I don’t know if there is a braill e cursor

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-10 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Hello Maurice, Have you tried working with tables in a Word document on the mac side? It used to be impossible so I was wondering whether you had any experience of tables in Word on the mac. Another word processing app on the Mac, Nisus Writer, was very promising but for the tables again. It

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread Dave Carlson
Morris, Okay, thanks. I have an Office 365 subscription, but the actual apps are installed on my Mac. They would just be updated automatically from the internet. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is important for all me

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
I also have a stand alone version which I bought late last fall. I don't know if it's still available or not. But I paid a one-time fee, thus avoiding the whole subscription thing. Cheers, Donna > On Apr 9, 2020, at 9:48 PM, maurice mines wrote: > > Hello Mr. Carlson, yes that is correct let m

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread maurice mines
Hello Mr. Carlson, yes that is correct let me explain. When you have office 365 you have the choice of either using the web version of an application or the version of the application that you actually install. Or at least that’s the way it was initially. These days I believe it is only the appl

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread Dave Carlson
Morris, You say your version is not the on line version? So you mean you are not using Office 365? Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread maurice mines
Hello, I use Microsoft Word for the Mac practically on a daily basis. The ways that I’ve made it work for me, is by first going to that ribbon. I stop interacting with it then I get to the point where it will show me the text that’s currently in the document. I interact with that and I’m able to

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
How is the issue of accessibility of Tables in Word on mac? That used to be a major stumbling block as it has been on all the other ones on the Mac platforms apart from Pages. Andrew > On 7 Apr 2020, at 21:43, 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Just had a play with Microsoft w

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread Dave Carlson
Kawal, I still have some issues with MS-Word on the Mac, and wonder if you can share some of the adjustments you made to help? Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread Julie Rattray
Yes I find when using word on the Mac that it is less responsive and it does not always respond to commands to move by para etc so I typically still use pages but do use word for a couple of things - normally sharing files to one drive for collaborative working with peers. Interestingly I find t

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-09 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
I did have to play with the NAV keys And Ihad to turn them off because it wasn’t showing me what I had typed. And I agree it’s okay but it is slightly not as great as what it might be on windows. But a vast improvement > On 8 Apr 2020, at 10:48 am, 'Devin Prater' via MacVisionaries > wrote: >

Re: Microsoft word on the Mac.

2020-04-08 Thread 'Devin Prater' via MacVisionaries
Do you have the problem where arrowing around a document in Word for Mac is sluggish? This is with quick navigation off. > On Apr 7, 2020, at 3:43 PM, 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Just had a play with Microsoft word on the Mac and that is better also. So > if anyone want

Re: Microsoft Word on the mac does not want to read more than a few pages out of a long document

2015-08-12 Thread 'Eleanor Roberts' via MacVisionaries
Hi all Just a note which is probably stating the obvious, but if you're having trouble with Microsoft Word or any part of the Microsoft sweet then please please feed it back to them! I have!! The only way they'll listen to us and improve their accessibility for us is if as many people as pos

Re: Microsoft Word on the mac does not want to read more than a few pages out of a long document

2015-08-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The problem I get is that the further down the document I go the more flaky VoiceOver becomes, and it stops indicating paragraph and line breaks properly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Microsoft Word on the mac does not want to read more than a few pages out of a long document

2015-08-12 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Krister, Thank you for confirming this. I think it's fair to say that I've given Microsoft Office a good chance on the mac but I find it difficult to justify subscribing to Office365 any longer. I shall have to pull the plug on this and just stick to Pages and office on the Windows side I

Re: Microsoft Word on the mac does not want to read more than a few pages out of a long document

2015-08-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, What i’m going to say now will not help you in the least and for that i’m sorry. However, I can partly confirm the behaviour you see, only i can’t read anything but some changes in attributes such as font, style etc if i’m lucky, apart from that, nada, nothing, zero and zilch. I don’t know w