Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
You can also try open office, it's free and works fairly well. On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jim Barbour wrote: > I don't believe any of the Microsoft programs written for the mac are > accessible using voiceover. The mac equivalents - pages, numbers, etc - > are accessible, but you need to figu

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jim and everyone, I use iWork09 to open and modify MS Office documents all the time, and then export them to their Office equivalents again. There are one or two problems such as incompatible fonts and tables in Word documents that have to be pasted into Numbers documents to be read and e

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
First, Microsoft Office is not accessible on the Mac, as far as I can tell. However, you can partition your harddrive using BootCamp, so that you can install Windows on one of the partitions, if you absolutely must use Windows software. Second, pdf files are very readable on the Mac, using Prev

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Jim Barbour
I don't believe any of the Microsoft programs written for the mac are accessible using voiceover. The mac equivalents - pages, numbers, etc - are accessible, but you need to figure out if they generate documents that you can share with those using Microsoft products. That is probably what I'd pa

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Kimberly thurman
I would recommend a slow transition. Get a Mac. Keep using your PC, and slowly begin to perform tasks on the Mac that you once performed in windows. Just my opinion. On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:39 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > Well, I hate to say this but, if you don't want to learn completely knew w

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread heather kd5cbl
Well, I hate to say this but, if you don't want to learn completely knew ways of doing things, that is a problem. The mac is not lie a windows PC and yes it has simular programs but they are not accessed like a windows program. They are just as productive and are easy after you learn them. I