Hello Garth, When you're used to Windows, everything on the Mac seems awkward. I've never used Windows, so everything on the Mac seems normal to me.
I use iWork all the time in my job as a translator. In general, it's simple enough to use once you understand it. There are some problems, however. The main one is tables in Pages. You have to create tables in Numbers then paste them into Pages. There's a command to make them visible in Pages, but editing them destroys their formatting, so all editing of tables has to be done in Numbers. As for headings, styles, changing fonts, etc., all that's perfectly straightforward. The other major problem with iWork, which I hope will be fixed in the next release, is that VoiceOver does not have access to important formatting information such as the colour of highlighting on specific pieces of text. I have to use TextEdit to detect these passages when I'm told only to translate the parts highlighted in yellow, for example. So, if you're creating your own documents, Pages works fine, but if you're working with other people on a document, things aren't quite so simple, but they are doable. Cheers, Anne On 31 Aug 2011, at 05:22, Garth Humphreys wrote: > Hi All > > I have been looking at getting one of the new MBA for a couple of weeks now > and a thanks to those who have chimed in with my previous questions. Mostly > I will not be using the Air for much word processing and the simple text > editor will suit most of my needs. Having said this when I have been playing > with Pages and Numbers on the Airs in my local Apple store I am finding it > not very intuitive and it seems like you need to do a lot of complicated key > strokes to achieve anything more than simple editing. I know this is > probably mostly due to the fact that I am not by any stretch of the > imagination an expert on the Mac or Voice Over. > > But I also wonder if it is at least partly because iWork with VO is not > really up to scratch. from a productivity perspective.If I am just writing a > simple document it seems fine but once I try creating a document with some > Headings at different levels and headers and footers etc, it starts to seem > really complicated and just a lot of work arounds. > > As I said I haven't even bought my MBA yet and it is just lucky that my > workplace is right near an Apple store so I have had a fair bit of time to go > and play around. > > When I have seen other people on the list ask about doing complex document > editing the main response seems to be that you can run Windows in boot camp > or fusion. > > I guess I want to know whether iWork is not up to scratch or is it just that > I don't know how to use it? > > Are there any people on the list who do use the Mac for complex document > creation, and I use the word complex loosely? > > As I said at the beginning of this, I won't be using my Mac for much more > than simple document creation, I will still be using Windows for real work, > however I find the lack of VO support for the productivity applications a > bit disturbing. > > Garth > > -- > 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.
