Thanks for your responses, Backy and Anne. Hot spots are one area I haven't dealt with in Voice Over yet. I've only been using this for about a month so far. I've used Open / Libre Office quite a bit in Linux and I have had Office experience over on that other platform <sigh>. I just haven't heard really good feedback about office work on the Mac. I thought Open Office was supposed to be a strong contender at one time; did that die off? I hear the price for iWork is not too bad though.
Any more ideas? On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:39:45AM +0100, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Steve, > > I'm about to have a firestorm land on my head for saying this, but Pages > works just fine for me, except for tracking changes, which I never have to do > anyway. > > To use Pages efficiently, you need a thorough knowledge of VoiceOver. Make > sure that the mouse cursor is set to ignore the other cursors or you'll have > stability problems. > > It's necessary to be familiar with Hotspots so that you can keep track of > styles. > > Pages is for word processing, not for reading for pleasure. TextEdit works > much better for that. > > I can't compare Pages to Word on a PC because I've never used a PC. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > > On 23 Feb 2012, at 01:58, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > What are people using these days for office productivity like word > > processing, spreadsheets, etc.? I am aware of iWork but I thought Open > > Office or probably now, Libreoffice would be even better. Which of > > these solutions ore most accessible now days. I heard some old > > podcasts recently where Open Office was supposed to be really good but > > then Oracle came along and who knows now. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.