There were strange cursor movement issues in reading and editing documents with earlier versions of Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac, but they’ve been largely fixed in recent Office 365 versions. I don’t know whether those fixes made it to the stand-alone version, though.
From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Date: Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 19:51 To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: My conclusions after a day of messing around with Word Hi Jason, It sounds like we're experiencing the same difficulty associating comments with their place in the text. I'm kind of relieved by that - I was starting to wonder about what you had said about 365 getting major accessibility updates, that perhaps Office 2016 did not get. I don't know what to make of the cursor movement issue. But every time I try to read a comment, it seems to jump to the end of the document. It may well be the result of something I'm doing, but I haven't been able to figure out what. I do what is described in the document you sent me the link to: that is VO-arrow over to the comment. But I'm only seeing the first line of the comment. When I try and arrow down to see the rest of it, that's when the cursor takes off. Cheers, Donna On Jul 29, 2018, at 6:20 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Using the Office 365 version of Microsoft Word for Mac, I’m not finding that the cursor jumps around unexpectedly. I can read comments, but I’m not sure how to move to the place in the text associated with a comment. VO-J doesn’t achieve the desired result. From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Date: Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 16:46 To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: My conclusions after a day of messing around with Word Hi John, I can't share a work document. I'll try and create a document and share it so that you can see what I mean. It's really crazy. Every time I try to read a comment, the comment doesn't correspond to the place where I last was in the text. For some reason I also keep randomly being moved around in the document, for example, it jumps to the end, even though I did not make it do that. I really don't understand at all how this could be usable. My plan is just to use Pages, and then re-export to word. I'll just have to check and make sure all fonts an formatting stick. Thanks, Donna On Jul 29, 2018, at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: Donna, I don't know if I will have time to play with this, but if you have a document that you can share on Dropbox or equivalent where you were having troubles withcomments/change information then perhaps somebody on list can review. I can't imagine the best solution for you would be to use pages to review updates and then do actual changes in Word. Take Care, Jonathan Cohn On Jul 28, 2018, at 11:17 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: I read this. It didn't help. If you know of something I'm missing, please let me know. Cheers, Donna On Jul 28, 2018, at 7:34 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: For the use of comments in Microsoft Word for Mac with VoiceOver, Microsoft's official guide is at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-a-screen-reader-to-add-read-and-delete-comments-in-word-c4648d50-4f7b-4795-b487-9e3141a5a596 On 7/28/18, 18:12, "Sarai Bucciarelli" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> wrote: Maybe I'm thinking of track changes. LOL. Sarai D Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli -----Original Message----- From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2018 5:10 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: My conclusions after a day of messing around with Word No actually if you’re using word and windows, Jaws shows you what text the comments are associated with. It’s definitely easier to follow in windows the native on the Mac. Cheers, Donna Sent from my iPhone On Jul 28, 2018, at 4:55 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi: Just note the same issues with comments is also in the Windows version of Word. Microsoft has done a wonderful job with accessibility. Sarai D Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli -----Original Message----- From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2018 4:41 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: My conclusions after a day of messing around with Word Hi all, So, I've spent most of the day playing around with Word for Mac, and have come to the conclusion that I prefer Pages. I agree with those who said Word is very accessible. Microsoft has done a pretty good job with this. But for my purposes, Pages works better. A major factor in my decision is that, while you can see changes and comments in Word, you can't tell what text they are linked to. 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