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I tried OO a couple of years back when I was having trouble working on a common document with a sighted friend who was using Word on a fairly old Windows OS and wasn't all that tech minded. It worked well for that purpose, although I preferred Text Edit as a much simpler way of going about things. I tried to use a more recent version and I then found all the problems with text blocks to which some of you have referred. Can't speak about tables. I would say two things about OO. Maybe we all should report this difficulty and at least you can do a word count in OO, which I have never been able to find in Text Edit. Best A On Aug 23, 3:08 pm, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > Just finished downloading Libre Office and it still has the table > problem. I insert a new 2 by 2 table and as I navigate the cells they > are all announced as "Edit Text" so there is no way to know which row of > column I'm in. Well, there is the trick I posted about a while back of > setting a live region in the region at the bottom of the page which does > give the letter/number position inside the table, but I shouldn't have > to do that. > > I tried VO-A on a document and it only read the first paragraph. I could > VO-down and read each paragraph as a block but not the whole document. I > was able to position my cursor at the beginning of a paragraph and > shift-down to select it and a couple paragraphs after that which I could > then cut, move somewhere else and paste, so that seemed to work ok. It > also announced every blank line between paragraphs as "Edit Text" which > is kind of verbose. Would rather have it just say "blank". > > CB > > On 8/23/11 5:35 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > When i tried Openoffice i found a couple of show stoppers: > > the paragraphs or even new lines were presented as separate edit boxes > > making it impossible to read using the "say all" command vo+a. I couldn't > > select long blocks of text to delete, move or otherwise manipulate, thereby > > making this function practically useless. This is in the openoffice word > > processor. Since others can use it, it would be nice to know what in the > > world i do wrong, or if there's some setting somewhere i need to change. I > > definitely prefer Pages for word processing, though i mostly do simple text > > writing, so textedit is enough for me. > > /Krister > > > 22 aug 2011 kl. 19:05 skrev Chris Blouch: > > >> While I only played with it a bit in the word processor I found table > >> navigation was difficult because it wouldn't announce what row or column I > >> was in or at least what heading I was under. Lots of the other stuff > >> worked decently. It's free so why not just download it and give it a whirl? > > >> CB > > >> On 8/21/11 4:21 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> I heard that OpenOffice will work with vo. What limitations are there to > >>> this support? In Windows, OO is all but unuseable, and I wonder if vo > >>> will run into any problems of which I should be aware before I try it. > >>> TIA. Oh, I am not willing to spend money on Pages or any of the others, > >>> especially since I now have my mac set to dual boot with Win7 and I have > >>> an MS Office installation I can put on if I need it. Of course, though, > >>> I want to do as much as possible in mac. > > >>> Have a great day, > >>> Alex (msg sent from BrailleNote > >>> [email protected];http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > >> -- > >> 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 > >> athttp://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.
