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
Sent from my iPhone > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
