Hi, I was under the impression that Office did not work with VO. Is this not correct? Max. On 29/10/2013, at 5:09 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello Tim, > > Yes, the old iWork was still there after the update to Mavericks, but my > problem is that I have to teach iWork and anyone getting a new Mac will have > the new versions of the applications. I’ve reported all the problems I’ve > found so far using the facility from within Pages and directly to > Accessibility. > > I’ve been defending iWork as a viable alternative to MS Office ever since it > became accessible with iWork09, but as it stands, I can no longer do that. > iWork is no longer a serious office suite for anyone running a business. > > Even just a few days after the release of the new versions of the apps, there > were hundreds of criticisms on the Apple discussion boards. > > I hope Apple takes note and does something about it quickly before they lose > a lot of customers. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > > On 29 Oct 2013, at 00:02, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Anne, >> >> I was reading up on some Pages issues and you’re not alone in your >> frustration with Mail Merge fields and such. I noticed that when upgrading >> from iWork 09 to the new Pages and such that my old version of iWork 09 >> remained on my Mac in my Applications folder. Yours should have done the >> same since you were running from a older CD install of iWork. If you didn’t >> already get rid of it, you are able to run the Pages 4.3 in Mavericks as >> well and the Mail Merge functionality is still there. If not, you should >> still be able to re-install it from your original CD then have both usable >> copies of Pages. Not the best way of running things but may help with some >> of the lost features that you were accustomed to. Beyond that, it appears >> that quite a number of people have been letting Apple know their >> disappointment with these feature losses and maybe they will re-instate them >> in a future update. >> >> Later… >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> I’m going through my teaching materials for Pages and finding problems. The >>> latest one is that we can no longer modify the date style in a document >>> using a contextual menu. Pages takes the date style from System >>> preferences/Language&Region/Advanced where it uses the Full version of the >>> date. We can copy whatever style of date we like into that field, but this >>> is really irritating as, speaking for myself, I don’t always want to use >>> the same format. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> -- >>> 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
