working with MS word documents.

2013-06-22 Thread Shaun Oliver
Hi all, can someone point me in teh right direction as to teh best solution for working with MS word documents from within my mac? given that I deal with people that insist on using a certain other operating system with it's accompanying office package, I need some level of compatibility and int

Re: New to OS X: How do I open a new Finder window?

2013-06-22 Thread Gordon Smith
David I think you will find that Command+N opens a new finder window. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1

Re: VoiceOver and IOS7.

2013-06-22 Thread Gordon Smith
iOS7 is strictly off limits for this group. As a registered developer myself, it would be very wrong of me to encourage speculation regarding either iOS7 or Mavericks. Apple announced Mavericks at the WWC but all the same it is not something we encourage for discussion or speculation on list.

Re: working with MS word documents.

2013-06-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Shaun, I use Pages to handle MS Word documents. This works fine unless there are lots of text boxes which do not display correctly in Pages when they come from Word. There can also be problems with missing fonts, but this is true even if you have Office for Mac and can also be true betwee

Re: working with MS word documents.

2013-06-22 Thread David Griffith
> Personally in terms of reading word documents I find that nothing really > beats TextEdit as I find most other word processors will only read a page at > a time. I had bought Nisus Writer Pro as I heard that it was the best option for compatible document editing but I have actually used Fusio

Re: At Sign Using BrailleNote Apex

2013-06-22 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Josh Excuse my ignorance but how do you add dot 7? My keyboard only has the standard 6 Btaille keyboard. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of A

Re: At Sign Using BrailleNote Apex

2013-06-22 Thread Josh Gregory
No problem, go to the options menu By pressing the space key and o at the same time, or I guess what is more commonly known as the O chord, go to keyboard settings and go to use six or eight dot computer braille. From here, select eight dot By pressing dots 1-2-5. Sent from my iPhone On Jun

help with safari

2013-06-22 Thread Margaret Booth
Can someone please give me the shortcut key to move back web pages, move forward web pages. I have tried pressing backspace to move back a web page but it doesn't work. Margaret <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-ac

navigating around tables on web page

2013-06-22 Thread Margaret Booth
Can someone please tell me how to navigate through a table on a web page using VO in Safari. Thanks for all of your help. Margaret <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messa

Re: help with safari

2013-06-22 Thread Gordon Keen
Hi Here's a useful link that may help, I have it bookmarked for easy reference: http://www.applevis.com/guides/voiceover-keyboard-shortcuts-mac-os-x On 22 Jun 2013, at 13:38, Margaret Booth wrote: HTH G >From Bridgerule in glorious Devon, England. > Can someone please give me the shortcut key

Re: iTunes 11

2013-06-22 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Sarah Actually I have the sidebar visible. Lynne helped me out of the frustration I was in. Although I'm still a little frustrated by certain aspects of iTunes 11. For instance, when I search for an album the only way I found to display its track info was to add it to Up Next. Now, even

sd vs hd movies/tv shows

2013-06-22 Thread Joe Quinn
how do i downlado/play the sd or hd versions ofmy tv shows/movies in the cloud? got a mac running mountain lion 10.8.4 and ituens 11.04 or whatever the latest version is and i can only download/pay the hd versions, i know if you go into the iTunes store ands look up your item you can download th

Re: At Sign Using BrailleNote Apex

2013-06-22 Thread Gordon Smith
I should have figured that out for myself, Josh. Sorry I was so dense on this one. BTW, are you aware that you can do a full reset to factory defaults with the Apex? I won't waffle on about it here but I tried it and it worked fine. Still having problems with getting the Apex online but that

Questions regarding Nisus Writer Pro

2013-06-22 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi, after trying arround for a few days to format a document (Vitae Cursus) with Latex I have to say, that a simple text processing programm for the Mac would be really nice :-). I used Latex some times in the past to write normal texts and letters and that worked fine, but for a document whi

Re: Questions regarding Nisus Writer Pro

2013-06-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Christian, You can do everything you mentioned in Pages. You can calculate the position of any item on the page using the Metrics inspector, and you can create and manipulate tables. You just have to set Floating in the Wrap inspector while you work on the table, then set it back to Inlin

Re: At Sign Using BrailleNote Apex

2013-06-22 Thread Josh Gregory
We can get you set up for a list with this particular notetaker if you want. But you seem as if you're set so that's good. And yes, I am. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 22, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: > I should have figured that out for myself, Josh. Sorry I was so dense on > this one

messages going in spam folder

2013-06-22 Thread Bill Deatherage
Hello, I signed up to an e-mail list and the messages I am getting back is going into the spam folder. first of all, I thought I wasn't getting anything from the list but when I started looking in to it I found the messages were in my spam folder. I am using my Ipad or my Iphone to get my e-ma

Error When Updating Text Expander for OSX

2013-06-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! When I launch Text Expander I'm told that an update is available so I click on the "Update" button. Text Expander then displays a dialogue saying there's an error updating, has anyone else seen this. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79

pges

2013-06-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yes, must have another look at Pages at some stage, a considerable time has elapsed since I've had a good play with Apples Word Processing app. I've been happily using Nisus Writer Pro though I don't use it for creating tables and the like, in the past if I've wanted to include tables in a docum