Another possibility , if you need to work in Word documents natively, is iTest Pro. You can get it in the Mac app store. Frank
-----Original Message----- From: 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 8:45 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com> wrote: > You do get some of the navigation that’s more familiar, but I have > had a very annoying problem with losing Voiceover focus when going from page > to page and especially after performing some function that required going to > the ribbon. I've experienced this in Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac. When moving to a new page, sometimes focus jumps to the start of the current page instead of continuing to the next page. I've encountered other annoying focus issues as well. However, I haven't tested the latest update to find out what improvements have been made. Also, there's no way that I know of to find out the style of the current paragraph. Comments and change tracking are awkward to use, at best. I don't normally use a word processor to write or edit documents; instead, I write in a text editor, which can be done just as easily regardless of operating system. However, when I do need to deal with MS-Word documents - especially with comments, change tracking, styles etc. (as is usually the situation at the moment), it's best done on a Microsoft Windows machine. Microsoft applications are most accessible in their home environment, as one might say. The keyboard commands are also very useful, including those associated with the ribbon under Windows. The Windows 10 machine at work is fairly stable at the moment, so I can work on it productively. How long this stability will last remains to be seen, of course. I really notice the lack of keyboard shortcuts on both Mac and GNOME compared with Microsoft Windows; but if you want keyboard commands that let you work very efficiently, then text-mode Linux still wins that contest, with Emacs or Vim as text editors. I still have a lot to learn about the PowerShell command line interface under Windows. Mac and Linux share the same command line shell and have similar utilities. If you truly need many of the features of Microsoft Word and Excel, I think you're best on Windows for now, but you might be able to run it in a virtual machine on a Mac. If you don't need all of those features, then perhaps Pages and Numbers will meet your needs. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
