Re: After upgrading to Catalina there's no sound when pasting an attachment into body of email

2020-03-10 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
In Sierra, there’s a sound when I paste an attachment into the body of an email message and Voiceover indeed announces the name of the attachment. In Catalina neither occurs. Andrew > On 9 Mar 2020, at 22:55, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't recall there being o

Word Processors recommendation

2020-03-10 Thread Eric Caron
Working on getting my Mac in a stronger working order. I have not updated the operating system as my current Microsoft app is 34 bit and I don’t have a clue where the registration info is. I purchased my copy many years ago and had a difficult time getting it installed. I accidentally selecte

Re: Word Processors recommendation

2020-03-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Pages, Keynote and Numbers are all totally accessible. If you plan on sharing a document created in Pages with someone who is a Microsoft Office user, then you'll still need to export it to a Word document (.DOCX). Pages is an Apple product, not a Microsoft product and thus I doubt that t

Re: Word Processors recommendation

2020-03-10 Thread Eric Caron
> On Mar 10, 2020, at 3:48 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > > Hi Tim and others, > > My current computer only version of Microsoft Word application seems to > have some glitches. The longer my documents are the more issues that seem to > crop up. Mostly focus issues. > > Pages being an Apple

Re: Word Processors recommendation

2020-03-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I use Pages and TextEdit. I forgot to mention TextEdit before. It can open and save to Word, although you can't do as fancy of formatting as in Word or Pages. Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 10,

Re: Word Processors recommendation

2020-03-10 Thread Bradford Snyder
Hi Eric, Pages, Numbers and Keynote are all very nice apps and are very accessible with VoiceOver, but the majority of the world uses MS Office, so unless you want to constantly swim upstream, MS Office is the way to go. I have been using Office 365 on both my Macs for 5 years and have found it

Re: Word Processors recommendation

2020-03-10 Thread Bradford Snyder
Text Edit is a nice option but it is pretty basic. I have also experienced issues with MS Word documents loosing certain types of formatting, such as numbering and other formatting options that are not supported by Text Edit. - Brad - On Mar 10, 2020, at 13:13, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionari

backblaze and voiceover

2020-03-10 Thread jean parker
Hello All: I am considering purchasing Backblaze and have some questions. I am a bit hesitant because they do not publish a customer support phone number and they don't say anything about accessibility on their web site. Thus, I would like to hear from the group about your experiences as follow

Re: backblaze and voiceover

2020-03-10 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Jean, Years ago I started using Carbon Copy Cloner. At the time it was free. Then it moved to a payed model. I’ve been using it ever sense. It is accessible. It makes a bootable copy on a external drive. I have only once had to use it to completely restore my hard drive

Re: Word Processors recommendation

2020-03-10 Thread Eric Caron
Thanks folks, This has been very helpful. My documents tend to be pretty simple, though they can get long. Text edit seemed to handle reading and saving back as a doc file. Also, Pages seems pretty responsive and I seem to be finding my way around pretty well. I was origina