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
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Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread heather kd5cbl
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the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Matthew J
hay all: Well it is that time that I start considering a laptop solution and the mac is becoming ever more attractive for taking places and working. What I'd like to see however, is how productive the mac can be in comparison to windows machines. I have mys ystems with office 2007/10 down to a