Hi Chad, Let's not forget TextEdit, the work processor that comes with the Mac. The price is right, it comes with every Mac, and will do what most people want; letters, notes, short papers, etc.
I use Mail exclusively so no need for Microsoft Office. Tom Frank vermont...@gmail.com On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:18 AM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi Chad, > On 17 Mar 2010, at 01:14, Chad Rohr wrote: >> I am going to be getting a Macbook soon and I wondered if Office 2008 is >> accessible? >> If not, what is something that will work and is accessible for the Mac > > Office 2008 is not, although the soon to be released 2010 is rumoured to be. > I would not use it though personally. There are at least three options that i > know of for Mac so far: > > 1. Apple's own IWork '09 which is Apple's version of Office. This is very > accessible, although ti does have a few qwerks which hopefully, Apple will > work out. I have not used this much, so I can't give you much detail beyond > this. I do plan to look more deeply into this application though. IWork can > open and save Word files, although there are a few issues with this at the > moment apparently. > > 2. Nisus Writer (Express & Pro) I have used both of these applications quite > extensively. They are quite accessible, but still need some work. Saying > that, they are perfectly usable for most types of document creation, > including some academic documents which use conventions such as footnotes and > endnotes. Also, the developers are very responsive and receptive to > suggestions and feedback. They can also open and save doc files and their > default file format is RTF. > > You can find them at: http://www.nisus.com & http://www.nisus.com/pro > > 3. Open Office - this is the open source office suite. Like MS Office and > IWork, it has word processing, spreadsheet and presentation abilities. There > has been some discussion on the list recently about an issue with the word > processor where there seems to be text boxes all over the place. As well as > being open source, this application is totally free. I think there is also > support for reading and creating doc files. > > You can get it at: http://www.openoffice.org > > 4. PageHand - This word processor is a little different. For one thing.it has > quite a novel way of dealing with the numerous options that are common in > most word processors. It prefers to sue a sidebar option that is very > accessible instead of menus, although menus do still exist. It's native file > format is PDF, and as far as I know cannot save into anything else, although > it can read doc and RTF etc. Bare in mind, that this application is not yet > at v. 2.0. The developer is very responsive and always receptive and open to > any suggestions and feedback - especially where language support and > accessibility are concerned. > > You can get it from: http://www.pagehand.com > > HTH > TC > James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny >> Hello, >> I am going to be getting a Macbook soon and I wondered if Office 2008 is >> accessible? >> If not, what is something that will work and is accessible for the Mac >> Thanks >> Chad >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature >> database 4950 (20100316) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email >> tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
