I don't use Writer for the reasons you have stated, though I find Calc great for all my spreadsheet needs. I'm still getting by with Text Edit for text work as I don't create fancy documents, but there are free word processors, so I just mix and match.
Cheers Dave On 4 Dec 2010, at 14:26, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hello, > Lately Openoffice has been recommended as accessible and working fairly well > so i thought i'd give it another spin, and this is what grumpy old me has > found. After my findings, i will post some questions. > Writing is no problem in Writer, which i use the most, in fact i haven't been > into the other apps in the suite, because i don't really know how to handle > them, Reading in writer, however, is a totally different matter. > You can't use VOs read all command, that just doesn't work, either you hear > one sentence or word then it stops or you hear nothing. > The problem that always has been in OOO, where you for every new line being > typed get a separate edit box, or so Vo believes, is still there. > When i tried to select text, nothing was spoken to indicate that text had > been selected at all. Either i do something wrong, or the functionality with > telling if something is selected just isn't there in VO. > I don't know if it is me who don't give the program a fair chance or what it > is, but i find Openoffice not workable, at least not writer, so i wonder, how > do people do to go around the program? Do you read text with the arrows or > the voiceover commands? When i read with arrows, the text got repeated 2 > times, very anoying. > Does anyone have any tips that can be useful in dealing with Openoffice? > Any help would be appreciated since i really want to learn the beast if i am > to demonstrate it to others. > /Krister > > -- > 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.
