Hi ScottActually, I didn't notice that because I always turn this feature off. I actually find it more annoying than helpful in most cases, personal preference.
On Jan 7, 2009, at 15:41, Scott Howell wrote:
Now that makes good sense. Hey, did you notice that if you type a misspelled word, you don't hear the ping from VO letting you know of the error? I wonder about this. I get this with Text Edit, Mail and so forth and yes, Open Office as well. Very curious. Maybe the incorrect word is highlighted/underlined, etc. in these apps and not in iWork. I can't recall how VO picks up on this, but there is obviously something that isn't happening in Pages. Not a big deal, probably an option to configure, it just occurred to me.Scott Howell s.how...@verizon.net On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:Hi ThereThe best thing you can do is try them both out for yourself and decide which you prefer. Personally, after playing around quite a bit with both, I prefer iWork 9 for a number of reasons. It's stable, something that Openoffice 3 has not been for me at least on the Mac side. You can read and edit tables in documents, something that up until now we haven't been able to do at all on the Mac. Highlighting text works correctly, since the document doesn't get subdivided into separate text areas like Openoffice sometimes does. I can read Powerpoints with Keynote, whereas if I tried this with Openoffice it would go into an infinite busy loop. A couple of downsides to iWork are that, while it can read Office open XML documents (.docx, .xlsx, and .pptx) files, it cannot save in them. It will, however, save to the normal office formats. There is also no opendocument support (Openoffice's default format) so if you need that you'll still need Openoffice installed. Some of the issues with Openoffice may be due to my setup, as there are a lot of people who seem to really like it and use it extensively. But for me it just never worked quite right. Download them both and try them out. Stick with whichever one you like. Of course, even if iWork is installed you don't need to remove Openoffice if you want both of them.On Jan 7, 2009, at 05:43, E.J. Zufelt wrote:Good morning,From a usability and accessibility perspective, is there a reason to preferiWork 9 over OpenOffice 3? Thanks, EverettThe major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.--Douglas Adams
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