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
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 t
This sounds exactly like what happened with Final Cut Pro. they dumbed it down
to a more consumer grade product, angered a bunch of power users, Apple AFAIK
put back some of the features. I wonder if iWork has to go through the same
cycle? You'd think Apple would have learned from previous mista
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 direct
Hello Steve,
Yes, I’d have thought Apple would have learned from their mistakes with Final
Cut Pro, too. They’ve landed me with a nice mess to sort out, bringing my
teaching materials up to date. I’m starting to feel like throwing in the towel.
iWork is no longer a competitor for MS Office.
Ch
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 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 ne
MS Office does not work with VO. Many people say they can’t use a Mac because
there’s no acceptable alternative to MS Office that’s accessible. And now, I
have to agree that iWork is no longer up to the job. In reality, iWork no
longer exists. There are just three stand-alone applications: Pages
I think that they will fix a lot of issues, or so I hope, because I am sure
that these reports are not just coming from the accessibility side. If you see
it carefully, there are not so many things to do, just bring back the behavior
with all kinds of fields, dates and hot keys. So it is not tha
