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. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. > -- 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.
