Hello Barry, Although in Pages images won’t overflow text, they will fall off the edge of the page! It’s always important to check the X and Y coordinates and the size of the image.
The current version of Word is lacking in many ways. I feel as though I’m wading through mud when using it, whereas in Pages, I’m swimming through clear water. Of course, I’m unfamiliar with Word and know Pages very well, which probably makes a difference, but there are so many things I don’t like about Office in general, such as Cmd-w not closing Preferences and combo boxes not working. Neither can I read straight through a document sentence by sentence. I have to stop interacting with one page and interact with the next to carry on. The only real plus is that it talks to Contacts, which the new Pages still doesn’t do – unless there’s some way of scripting this. Cheers, Anne > On 23 Apr 2015, at 01:04, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had to use Word 97 in a technical writing class at it was a complete > nightmare. Things have definitely come a long way from where they were. > With Pages, it would have been a breez. > > As far as I know, images or other objects will not overlap text. You can set > them to move with text, or to have text flow around them in the arrange pain > of the formatter. And, just incase you weren’t aware, you can interact with > an image in the layout area and resize it with it’s handles. > > It’s worth noting that from what I’ve been able to tell, you can’t do any of > this in the current Word 2016 preview with Voiceover. > > On Apr 21, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi all. This might be a rather lengthy email, so I hope you don’t mind > reading a longer piece than you’re used to getting, lol. > So our class was given the task of creating a sort of project of anatomy. We > were to make a cover page, a table of contents, and make a description and > add pictures of systems of the body. Each system had to be on its own page. > That seemed easy, and it turned out to be. I started up pages, created the > document, and started to work. I first made the cover page, with my name and > the title on it. Then, after searching through the menus, I found “page > break, command+enter.” So I pressed command enter. Nothing. (the enter key > beside the apostrophe, that is.) I tried it several times, then I went to the > keyboard help, voiceover k. I tried the enter on the numbed, and it said > “enter.” So, I tried that and it worked. I suppose fn+command+return would do > it on the macbook. Anyways, the new page was inserted and I went through the > menu bar and found the way to create a table of contents. When it was > created, I for some reason was able to move it, but didn’t mess with that. So > I started on the systems, saving images to the downloads folder, copying and > pasting them into pages at the position where I wanted them, moving to the > point where the error ding was heard, then leaving them alone. I was the only > blind person that was able to find and add images to the project on my own. > The other two used Windows, and had to ask for help. I set the titles of each > page to headings, and just saved as a Word file, had it printed, and there it > is. All in all, I was very happy with the accessibility pages offered, but do > wish moving images was a little more understandable. I’d rather know if the > image overlaps text or not than some obscure coordinates. > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > Barry Hadder > bhad...@gmail.com > > > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
