Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
ynote > or do i need to instal all of them? > - Original Message - > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:26 PM > Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> You expect me to summaries the features of Pages

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
2009 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > You expect me to summaries the features of Pages in one email message? > We'll be here all night , what I've discovered so far is some > very excellent auto-correct features, we've discussed the "Auto > N

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2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
OK, Will do. Thanks, Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > As I said earlier, many things I haven't even explored yet so have fun > and please let us

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:26 AM > Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> You expect me to summaries the features of Pages in one email >> message? >> We'll be here all night , what I've

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Ah, I'll take a look at those resources. Thanks. Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:26 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > You expect me to summaries the features of Pages in one email message

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
st started using it > so I'm > not that familiar with it. > Thanks, > Jeffrey > - Original Message - > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:19 AM > Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > >> &g

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
es. I wonder how well the new 1.3.1 > of Pro > will work under Snow Leopard when it comes out of beta. > > Thanks for the suggestions > - Original Message - > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:46 PM > Subject: Re: Wor

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2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Cool. What kinds of features does it offer? I just started using it so I'm not that familiar with it. Thanks, Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > Pages c

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2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
- > From: "Dane Trethowan" > To: > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:50 AM > Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> Yes, Pages is the name of the Word Processing package in Iwork 9. >> >> >> On 04/09/2009, at 10:50 PM,

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2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
That's really good to hear. Thank you Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Shockley" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > Hi, > The iWork Suite seems to be pritty accessible from what I can tell. It

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2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > I use a combination of Open office and Pages - the latter is very nice > indeed I'm told under Snow Leopard though I haven't had the chance to > try that for myse

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2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Yep, it seems to be a nice little program, from what I can tell. - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:50 AM Subject: Re: Word processing on Mac OS X > > Yes, Pages is the name of the Word Processing package in Iwork 9. >

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2009-09-04 Thread william lomas
There is also a demo of pages as part of IWork On 4 Sep 2009, at 13:46, Dane Trethowan wrote: > > I use a combination of Open office and Pages - the latter is very nice > indeed I'm told under Snow Leopard though I haven't had the chance to > try that for myself yet -. > > Another word processin

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
aries" > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:40 AM > Subject: Word processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> Hi folks, >> >> What are folks on the list using for Word Processing please? >> Although I >> don't need it right at the moemnt, I would like the

Re: Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
. HTH, Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "James & Nash" To: "Mac visionaries" Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:40 AM Subject: Word processing on Mac OS X > > Hi folks, > > What are folks on the list using for Word Processing please? Although I >

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2009-09-04 Thread Dane Trethowan
I use a combination of Open office and Pages - the latter is very nice indeed I'm told under Snow Leopard though I haven't had the chance to try that for myself yet -. Another word processing package -available on its own - which is super! to use is Nisus Writer Pro, very accessible and packed

Word processing on Mac OS X

2009-09-04 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, What are folks on the list using for Word Processing please? Although I don't need it right at the moemnt, I would like the ability to use footnotes and endnotes as well as tables of contents. Latex is great for academic writing nbut sometimes when there's an error and the file will

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-08 Thread James & Nash
sage - >> From: "Mike Arrigo" >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:16 AM >> Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X >> >> >>> >>> Text edit comes with the mac, and it works well, the newest version >>> of >>>

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-08 Thread william lomas
; Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:16 AM > Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> Text edit comes with the mac, and it works well, the newest version >> of >> pages is also very accessible. >> On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:48 PM, James & Nash wrote

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2009-07-08 Thread James & Nash
Thanks Mike - Original Message - From: "Mike Arrigo" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:16 AM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > Text edit comes with the mac, and it works well, the newest version of > pages is also very accessible. > On Jul 7, 2

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2009-07-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
Text edit comes with the mac, and it works well, the newest version of pages is also very accessible. On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:48 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Does anyone use Pages or Nisus Writer Pro on Mac OS X or indeed any > other > Mac word processor please? If so, what is the a

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2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
ot;Barry Hadder" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:38 PM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > Well I don't think that this is just a Voiceover list and you are the > one who started the "Word Processing on Mac OS10" discussion. Which I > think is

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2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
can't remember. I think the work around for this problem is to put braces around the faulty ligatures. Thanks James - Original Message - From: "Barry Hadder" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:25 PM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > You don't hav

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2009-07-07 Thread Barry Hadder
; them. > > Take care > > James > - Original Message - > From: "Barry Hadder" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:14 PM > Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> I use latex my self, but I haven't found a good

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Barry Hadder
gt; a 700MB program with all the packages etc. Could I not just use the > command > line as I do under Windows once I've installed TEX Live or something? > > Thanks > > James > - Original Message - > From: "Justin Harford" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July

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2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
Nisus >>> version. >>> >>> Take care >>> >>> James >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "Simon Cavendish" >>> To: >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:03 PM >>> Subject: Re: Word Processing on

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
thing? Thanks James - Original Message - From: "Justin Harford" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:48 PM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > If you use LaTeX you are doing quite well. LaTeX is far nicer under > Mac OS X than Windows. > > Justin >

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2009-07-07 Thread Barry Hadder
like. >> >> Although i use Latex for writing, it is always grat to use a word >> processor >> like Nisus. When i get my new Mac I will look at the new Nisus >> version. >> >> Take care >> >> James >> - Original Message - >> Fro

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2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
ndish" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > Dear Rostislava, > > The major problems I have encountered trying to use Nisus Writer Pro > is a lack of certainty in formatting. I would not know for instance > when I was inserti

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2009-07-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Nisus > version. > > Take care > > James > - Original Message - > From: "Simon Cavendish" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:03 PM > Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> Dear James, >> >> I have been following var

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Koumanova Rostislava
hi, i use bold, underline in text edit. for eg. i write my document and then i spell check and format by selecting and performing bold , underline ecc. i handle a lot of tables using open office. it does not read heading of the colum or row and i have a little tip for this. if i have to fill t

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
James > - Original Message - > From: "Simon Cavendish" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:03 PM > Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > >> >> Dear James, >> >> I have been following various posts on this list but to date I >

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2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
Thank you. It certainly does. Can I suggest that you check out Nisus Writer too? Got to: www.nisus.com Thanks james - Original Message - From: "Koumanova Rostislava" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:10 PM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > hi, > i us

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
my new Mac I will look at the new Nisus version. Take care James - Original Message - From: "Simon Cavendish" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:03 PM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > Dear James, > > I have been following various posts on this list

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2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
To: Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X > > HI, > James: > > Pages and Open Office 3.x are accessible, though neither has tables > support yet. I have heard that the other one you mentioned is > accessible too. > > Regards, > Ale

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Rostislava, The major problems I have encountered trying to use Nisus Writer Pro is a lack of certainty in formatting. I would not know for instance when I was inserting bullets or other features. When toggling attributes like bold or udnerline, i do not know whether i toggle them on

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Koumanova Rostislava
hi, what are your needs? since i swich to mac i never needed to turn back. open office is very similar to ms office at least it has everything in the menu format. rk Il giorno 07/lug/09, alle ore 22:03, Simon Cavendish ha scritto: > > Dear James, > > I have been following various posts on thi

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Barry Hadder
I recommend OpenOffice. With Writer you have access to bullets and tables. With those two things, you can make a pretty decent technical document. Just a note about the tables: You might not think that you can do anything with Them at first, but it does work. However, Text presented in a t

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Koumanova Rostislava
hi, i use text edit allways , pages and open office. text edit is not a simple note editor and is very potential, eg. saves tables, links ecc iwork is as great as word ... and it is useful to open doc from moffice and insert formatting such as header or foot nottes. i love it's comment c

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear James, I have been following various posts on this list but to date I haven't heard anything reassuring about Pages or Iworks that would persuade me that I could ditch Ms Office under Windows. However, I know that some people have used Pages and other applications with a degree of su

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Jurgensen
HI, James: Pages and Open Office 3.x are accessible, though neither has tables support yet. I have heard that the other one you mentioned is accessible too. Regards, Alex, On 7-Jul-09, at 12:48 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Does anyone use Pages or Nisus Writer Pro on Mac OS X

Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, Does anyone use Pages or Nisus Writer Pro on Mac OS X or indeed any other Mac word processor please? If so, what is the acce3ssibility of each with VO? Thanks James --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G