Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Sadam ahmed
Hi Anne and all, I now have managed to open one of the documents the .doc. File however I am still struggling to open the .docx document. As Anne points out clearly Pages can work with these file formats despite what AppleCare tell me which I frankly find extraordinary that the software can't

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Sadam Ahmed
email and then we may be able to give > more advice. > > > David Griffith > > -Original Message- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of sadam ahmed > Sent: 09 March 2013 15:57 > To: Mac OSX &

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Esther
> - Original Message - From: "sadam ahmed" > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:57 AM > Subject: Re: Pages questions. > > >> Hi David and Anne, >> >> thanks for your individual responses t

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Where do you get the idea that docx files cannot be opened with pages? I'm currently working on just such a file in Pages, and do so regularly. I suspect it all depends on the complexity of the file. I'm dealing with fairly straightforward stuff and rarely have any problems othe

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Josh Gregory
m ahmed" > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:57 AM > Subject: Re: Pages questions. > > >> Hi David and Anne, >> >> thanks for your individual responses to my issue it's most appreciated. >> >&

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Phil Halton
to work fine in Pages. - Original Message - From: "sadam ahmed" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:57 AM Subject: Re: Pages questions. Hi David and Anne, thanks for your individual responses to my issue it's most appr

RE: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread David Griffith
Griffith -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of sadam ahmed Sent: 09 March 2013 15:57 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Pages questions. Hi David and Anne, thanks for your individual responses t

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Sarah k Alawami
s. >> >> David Griffith >> >> -Original Message- >> From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net >> [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of sadam ahmed >> Sent: 09 March 2013 13:18 >> To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility >>

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread sadam ahmed
d > Sent: 09 March 2013 13:18 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Pages questions. > > Hi all, > > I recently purchased Pages for the Mac. > > My question is while am I not able to open word97/2004 documents? > > I have contacted both the Pag

RE: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread David Griffith
To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Pages questions. Hi all, I recently purchased Pages for the Mac. My question is while am I not able to open word97/2004 documents? I have contacted both the Pages team and AppleCare about this issue they have been unhelpful. Thanks for any ans

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, I can't test this with Word 97 documents created on a PC, but with those created on a Mac, it works fine. Anything earlier, however, doesn't open with Pages. Cheers, Anne On 9 Mar 2013, at 14:18, sadam ahmed wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently purchased Pages for the Mac. > > My ques

Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread sadam ahmed
Hi all, I recently purchased Pages for the Mac. My question is while am I not able to open word97/2004 documents? I have contacted both the Pages team and AppleCare about this issue they have been unhelpful. Thanks for any answers regarding this. kind regards, MR. Sadam Ahmed. Diploma o

RE: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Cathy
Hi Danny, (flushing with embarrassment> Oh I know I should use the help file. My husband told me the same thing. But I have been having trouble with that as well. when I had my husband come in to show me how to use the help in Pages, he couldn't figure it out either. But I will try the voiceover he

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Danny Noonan
Firstly, don't take this the wrong way but a lot of your questions will be answered by going through the help that is built into voiceover on the mac. There is a section spesifically on editing text that has lots of mac keyboard commands like what your looking for along with lots of other inform

RE: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Cathy
Hello, I wanted to thank all who have answered my questions on Pages. Anne thanks for the answers to all my questions specifically. Andrea, your description of the insertion pointer was so on target for me. now, after reading your notes on how it works with the example you mentioned, the light bul

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Bryan Jones
I've written numerous college papers using Pages on my Mac. The way I learned to do this was by taking Anne & Archie Robertson's lessons via Skype. For more details on their excellent lessons, you can read my review on the Applevis site or email them directly, educat...@cecimac.org. Cheers, Bry

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Josh Gregory
Sweet! I'm going to need both, I think. Thanks very much. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:11 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Josh, > > In my previous message, I failed to mention that you can indeed write college > papers using Pages. I have templates for both APA and MLA formats.

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Josh Gregory
Hi there, thanks very much. That seems a bit steep when you look at it at first, but when you consider that Microsoft Word is about $200, it puts it into perspective how cheap It really is. LOL. I will definitely be getting that, and probably keynote as well. That could come in handy if I really

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Andrea Breier
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RE: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Cathy
Hi Josh, We just purchased pages and it is indeed $20 from the Apple store. Just having come from windows I figured I should get pages because I never liked notepad which was the default text editing program. Maybe text edit will work well enough for me. I don't know, I suppose I will now check i

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Josh, In my previous message, I failed to mention that you can indeed write college papers using Pages. I have templates for both APA and MLA formats. Around $20 sounds right for Pages, but I wouldn't know for sure as I'm in France so prices are in euros. I've been using Pages as a profe

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Josh Gregory
Thanks very much. I've heard things about it, both good and bad, so what did to get some feedback from users that seem to use it on a regular basis. I don't mean to sound… Rude, but was just saying. I think it's $20, am I correct? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2013, at 5:04 AM, Anne Robertson

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Josh, Pages is an advanced word-processing application. However, if all you want in the way of formatting is bold, italic, indentation and so on, TextEdit would be good enough. In Pages, you can use the templates that are provided, or create your own templates including placeholder text.

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Cathy, My responses are below. Cheers, Anne On 2 Jan 2013, at 06:51, Cathy wrote: > > > 1. I am in pages and have created a new document. I now want to save it. I > press command-D to save and interact with the text to create the file name. > then I stop interacting with that and move

Re: pages questions

2013-01-01 Thread Sarah k Alawami
My answer is below your quoted text. On Jan 1, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Cathy wrote: > 3. Oh yes, that brings up a third question. when I am inserting text, I > can't figure out how that works either. Sometimes it will insert at the end > of a word, sometimes after the character I intend for it to inse

Re: pages questions

2013-01-01 Thread Devin Prater
Italicizing is advanced? I thought you could do that even in the mail program. Yes, you can. Now, indenting, I'm not sure. you can center a text, but I'm not sure about other indentations. Yes, you can press the tab key to indent, but that might be the most advanced thing you can do regu

Re: pages questions

2013-01-01 Thread Josh Gregory
I've got a couple questions as well. Can this program be used to write college papers, is it accessible to Voiceover, and Does it provide support for advanced formatting options, such as italicizing and indenting? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > There

Re: pages questions

2013-01-01 Thread Devin Prater
There should be a list view. Interact with that and you can choose the location. On Jan 1, 2013, at 11:51 PM, Cathy wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a number of questions regarding using this program. > > > > 1. I am in pages and have created a new document. I now want to save it. I > press com

pages questions

2013-01-01 Thread Cathy
Hello all, I have a number of questions regarding using this program. 1. I am in pages and have created a new document. I now want to save it. I press command-D to save and interact with the text to create the file name. then I stop interacting with that and move to the button to choose where