Thanks for that tip. I wish I'd thought of this when I was in school struggling 
through a table intensive class!
Olivia
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower", Steve Jobs

On May 25, 2010, at 6:02 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:

> 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.
>>>> 
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