We just upgraded to Office 365 from Thunderbird email client and Office 2010. I don't do much with Word, but with O365 I didn't need to uninstall anything. Just got a Microsoft account, bought the O365 home with 5 connections and so far it's running pretty smoothly. I've never used Outlook, so I kept Tbird. After a few days (I'll read the FS tutorial on Outlook I bought recently) I can do everyday stuff like send, receive, forward, etc. Bottom line, I've not found Office 2016 (which I downloaded) much different than 2010-especially for Excel which I constantly use. I even see some benefits to Outlook over Thunderbird. The exchange server we had to get with O365 works faster and more reliably than our former server of the POP variety. So..kicking and screaming I upgraded and survived with a growing smile on my face.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 9:36 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Have to get new MS office suite Hey Wayne. I just upgraded from office 2010 32-bit to 2016 64-bit. I used 2016 before at my old work and found that it worked really well with jAWS 18 except for the semi-usual jAWS crashes, which I recently discovered seem less of an issue if you stick to good ole' Eloquence. I do find that certain things, like the spell-check, seems to work better in 2016. I would upgrade to 2016 because it's the latest non-365 version and will continue to be supported for quite some time. I made a backup of my outlook data using the export feature. In the end, even though I had to uninstall Office completely in order to install the new version, those files were retained in my data folders and so I did not end up needing to use the backup. The same should be true for you, but just backup the folders anyway, just in case. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of wayne smith Sent: July 12, 2018 8:28 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Have to get new MS office suite Well, it is here. I am getting notices from Microsoft that my MS Office 2007 is no longer supported. I have basic needs and do not want to have to relearn everything again if I don't have to. I can upgrade through my school to something less than 365. I could use some advice as to which MS Office is most constant with the older version. I have used 2010 and it worked reasonable well. I Have Windows 7 and JAWS 15 but I do have upgrades to current versions that I have not used. Any thoughts would be appreciated. On a related note I currently have my emails sent to my MS Outlook 2007. If I upgrade will the folders that I have created automatically export to say Outlook 2016? Thanks for any help, Wayne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
