Hello Andrew
I use pages all the time with Microsoft Word documents that I've converted. If 
this file is not sensitive, I would be willing to take a look at the blank file 
and see if I can figure out something. If you would like contact me off list 
and I will see what I can do.
Gigi

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> On Apr 3, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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