I use Word on the Mac just because I’m more familiar with it, having used it on Windows for nearly 20 years. You have to make some adjustments for apple keystrokes, but it is usable. Item chooser is a good way to get to the ribbon controls. Some of them you work with by VO-shift-M and other’s you just have to interact with, but hints do say when you need the extra step. One extremely annoying problem I had was that when switching to and from the app or sometimes even using functions within the app, the document would jump back up to the top. I finally discovered that Word is best used with cursor tracking turned off. The down side is that sometimes VO will not be where you want it for context related options like correcting spelling or grammar, but you can use the VO to Keyboard focus hotkey, which I still forget the sequence for, to get it in sync or briefly turn cursor tracking back on. I tried setting up an activity to turn it off when in word, but it caused my computer to hang when waking up from sleep. It’s disconcerting when some things don’t work as expected because tracking is off, but it beats running Windows.
To the original question, I can’t compare apples to apples (forgive the bad pun) since I never installed the Mac version of Outlook, but that one will come down to personal preference provided accessibility remains constant. Outlook is the king of ways to organize and flag your mail. At work where I’m forced to used Windows, I employ these features to manage my inbox as a to-do list so that I don’t have to flip to different screens to manage my day. Mac Mail can’t touch that. However, overall I prefer Mac mail at home for it’s unified inbox since I have multiple email accounts. A combination of reminders and a service called followupthen.com keeps my home life on task. > On Apr 9, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > Thank you. This is really helpful and good to know. I'm hoping I can just > install Word, and not have to deal with the whole office suite, but I am not > sure about that yet. > > Just curious, is there anyone on list who has experience with both using Word > for the Mac, and running Word in Windows using Fusion? Which gives the > better experience in Word? That's obviously another option. I have no > interest in polluting my Mac by putting Windows on it, but if there is a good > reason to, I would consider it. > Cheers, > Donna > >> On Apr 8, 2017, at 4:42 PM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Donna, >> >> I have certainly used Word 2016 on the Macintosh with no major issues. I >> have not tried anything complex however. Office 2016 has both Macintosh >> style menus and also a ribbon, I believe there are more options embedded in >> the ribbon, though the ribbon is not as keyboard interactive as it is on >> Windows. You have to interact with the ribbon, select the category from the >> top row, then move down and interact one more time to get to all the >> controls there. I expect that one could use the item chooser in two quickly >> get to a ribbon item, but I have only tried that in Outlook where even in my >> 2016 15 inch Mac Book Pro I escape out of the item chooser before it brings >> up a list of items because it is too slow.. (500 messages in inbox) >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan Cohn >> >> >> >>> On Apr 8, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> On a related note, can anyone give me the current status of Office, >>> specifically Word, on the Mac? I'm looking at some contract work that >>> would require me to use Word, so trying to figure out whether to do it on a >>> PC, or whether I could just use my Mac. >>> Cheers, >>> Donna >>>> On Apr 8, 2017, at 7:31 AM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries >>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> David Diamond <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> wrote: >>>>> MY fault. I should have looked at the group I was responding too. >>>>> However, I have outlook 2016 on my IPhone and, do find it a lot easier to >>>>> use then the apple mail app. >>>> >>>> I find that it conveniently separates mailing list messages from messages >>>> addressed directly to me, and it does so automatically. The notifications >>>> it >>>> creates on the lock screen are also useful. 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