Thanks for this Anne. Seems kind of cumbersome, but at least it's an option. Cheers, Donna On May 25, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello Dónal, > > To access a table inside a file in Pages, you have to highlight it, copy it > to the clipboard, then paste it into a Numbers document. The table shows up > in Pages as a space, but it copies over to Numbers perfectly well. > > You can copy the table back the same way. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On May 25, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > >> Anne, (et al) Just a quick question. I've imported some documents recently >> that pages couldn't handle. It seems that where there are tables in a word >> doc, VO doesn't read them. Has anyone else encountered this? Apart from >> this anomaly though accessing word files is fine. >> >> Dónal >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson >> Sent: 25 May 2010 07:11 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: VO and Microsoft Word Docs >> >> Hello Cathy, >> >> I work on doc files all the time using Pages, which is part of iWork09. I >> find that Pages keeps almost all the formatting intact. >> >> TextEdit will also open doc files, so it all depends on what you want to do >> with them. For just reading, TextEdit is the simplest and cheapest solution >> since it comes with your Mac. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On May 25, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Catherine Kudlick wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I'm new to the group and to Macs, and find that VO doesn't work at all in >>> doc files. Is there something I'm missing? Is there a work-around? What >>> do folks do in such a doc-based world? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Cathy K. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
