It helps. The reason being that when it is on, Word has a tendency to jump back to the top of the document in certain situations. I’ve seen it happen when moving from page to page, switching back to Word from another application, and sometimes when performing other tasks within Word. With cursor tracking off, this doesn’t happen, and you are able to navigate the ribbon and choose formatting options while also moving the physical cursor through your document. It’s actually something I find cleaner than Pages, though part of that may be that I’m not that familiar with Pages. To get around the problem where the VO cursor may not bee where you need it to be for context menus or spelling corrections, use the VO-shift-F4 key sequence to bring the VO cursor to the keyboard focus. (I don’t know but the FN key may be involved too on a laptop.) You will want to turn cursor tracking back on for file dialogs or when switching to other apps. I tried setting up an activity as was suggested, but on my machine it seemed to cause problems. The machine would hang up on waking from sleep so badly that the only way to get control back was to force the computer to power off. I thought something else was causing that, but when I removed the activity things went back to normal.
I have also found that after some use, Voiceover reading in Word may become unpredictable, reading only parts of lines and not necessarily the line you’re on. I’ve only noticed this when working with multilevel outlines. The only fix I have found for this is to save your work and restart Word. > On Apr 21, 2017, at 7:45 PM, Maurice Mines <[email protected]> wrote: > > So that my mother standing here, you need to turn cursor tracking off in the > VoiceOver settings and order for word 2016 to work properly right? I'm > running this on a bed 2015 MacBook Pro. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 21, 2017, at 7:37 PM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I have used MS Word 2016 for basic document editing with no major issues. >> When reading a document that had a lot of tables, word did not work very >> well. One suggestion that I have read and agree with is that it works much >> better with cursor tracking turned off. This does mean you have to be >> careful about some VO commands since they expect the mouse to be hovering >> over the VO cursor. (specifically click and contextual menus.) >> The dialog that comes up when Word first starts is a bit annoying and better >> to be turned off in my opinion. This can be done in the settings. >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan Cohn >> >> >> >>> On Apr 21, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Maurice Mines <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Good evening, I am wondering what's the status of the current version of >>> words level of accessibility. Recently re-install office 2016, and I'm >>> finding word to be pretty much unusable. Did Microsoft go back on their >>> accessibility improvements that were done last year? Any ideas? 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