Listers,

I need your experienced help.  I am doing a course and one of the ways I am 
being tested is my tutor sending to all the students a Word documents which has 
tables.  The document is formatted as a word document.  It has a number of 
questions and related conditions to it in some kind of a text box and then a 
table into which I have to type in "yes, no, or maybe" answers.  I opened it in 
Pages, and I could access the table into which to write the "yes, no, maybe" 
answers, but there was no way of knowing which row corresponded to which 
question/condition in the textbox.  It was a mess with voiceover and it took me 
two hours to work out what was what.  I tried to convert it into rtf to see 
whether I can read all the relevant bits of the assignment but I couldn't since 
rtf reported the table as embedded file.  I converted it into text but much of 
the content of the file was missing.  I finally converted it to pdf and I was 
able to read the questions/conditions text box but of course I couldn't write 
the answers into the table provided because the table wasn't reported and 
anyway you cant write new content in preview.  I then attempted Ms Word in 
Windows 7 in my virtual machine but that wasn't much help because I couldn't 
read the textbox with the all relevant questions/conditions. 

So my question to you is, is there a way of confidently reading textboxes and 
their content in Pages or in any other way?  I reported the difficulties to my 
tutor and he said he would try and send the assignments like this to me in an 
editable pdf form but I don't think I can actually access and edit any editable 
pdfs with voiceover.  Is there a way around it/  This time, I managed to submit 
my assignment after hours of trying but I don't fancy doing it every time.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Andrew

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