What features have you discovered to turn off, and why? -----Original Message----- From: Bill Belew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 3:26 PM To: 'Petty, Richard'; 'Kenneth Son'; 'Gw Info' Subject: RE: office 2013
I've had better luck with Office 2013 than what Richard describes and I expect that the access will improve. The ribbon is a little overwhelming at first, but it does provide keystroke access to many useful features. The one biggest problem so far for me is the spell checker. It gives you a list of suggestions and various options for change, ignore, etc., but I couldn't find any way to read the text including the misspelled word. There may be keystrokes I haven't found, but it looks like they really need to work on the spell checker. I have found Outlook 2013 to work very well, once you turn off certain features. It is necessary to get the Outlook Enhanced app setup and working. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Petty, Richard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:10 AM To: Kenneth Son; Gw Info Subject: RE: office 2013 I returned to Office 2010 after attempting to use Office 2013. Others may have had better experiences than I and more time to work on resolving issues... There were a number of problems, large and small, that caused me to go back to 2010. I found that messages in the list view would not voice consistently when arrowing through the list, but I understand other users did not have this problem. The autocomplete feature for addresses either doesn't work or works differently in Outlook 2013. For me, it only completed after using the enter key, which makes it much less useful, in my judgment. I found it difficult to use message virtualization and had to rely on opening Internet Explorer to view many messages. I was unable to make Excel voice at all, but I can't imagine that it's truly unusable; there may have been a solution I just didn't find before I removed Office 2013. All this took place about a month ago and there may have been improvements since then. Word worked well enough. Just be prepared to learn new keystrokes and to have to look in different places for common functions. All that's aggravating, but something we'll just need to get used to as long as Microsoft continues to change the ribbon. It's also worth noting there are fewer advantages to upgrading than I expected. I especially needed better PDF support, but when Word does import PDFs, it imports them, more or less, as unformatted documents. I think Microsoft sees this as a feature, not a fault, but there's little advantage, for me at least, if there's not some attempt at providing a formatted document. As far as the Outlook calendar and the Window-Eyes calendar app, they work well in Office 2013. I did not try Access. If you do make the transition, I hope things go well. Richard Petty ILRU at TIRR Memorial Hermann (713) 797-7122 -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Son [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:40 AM To: Gw Info Subject: office 2013 Hello to the list. How usable is the office 2013 program with Window-Eyes? For example can I use some kind of command to read the word in context when I am spell checking? Does spell checking even work with Window-Eyes? Is the access program usable as well as excel? Just how in general does Office 2013 work with Window-Eyes? How does the calendar work in Office 2013 outlook? These questions have to do with the desktop bersion of Office 2013 how ever I would be interested to know how this works with other versions of Office 2013 such as office 365 or this in the cloud program thing. Kenneth Son. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. 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