Hi Anne. I agree that Pages and Numbers work just fine. In fact, I like them better than Word and Excel. Numbers accepts Excel formulas, but in many cases, you can use tyhe function of Insert plus Function. I love that. The other thing is that VoiceOver is not as complicated as, say, Jaws to set up the talking of the rows and columns.
I did, however, have trouble Pages on tables because, although I although I got my columns of different widths to work within Pages, I found that if I exported the file to Word, the width of the columns got changed. In my case, I'm just not going to worry about it because I have a work around. If I had been just using Pages, things would have been just fine, and maybe I just don't know what I'm doing. I think my tables would have worked find also if I had been printing them. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 8, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Steve, > > On 8 Apr 2012, at 11:02, Steve Holmes wrote: >> I hear about Pages >> and Numbers but I understand they are rather limitted and table >> manipulation is practically impossible from what I have read here > > I'm so tired of repeating myself, but I use Pages all the time in my capacity > as a professional translator. Any tables I find in a document I copy into > Numbers so that I keep the formatting correct. I manipulate the table in > Numbers, then copy it back into Pages. It doesn't take long and works fine. > > Like any decent office suite, iWork takes time to learn and people just > haven't got the patience. > > Yes, there are problems with the iWork suite. A group of VO commands doesn't > function such as looking for next colour change so I compensate for this by > using TextEdit to read my source document, but I have no trouble formatting > in Pages. > > I do think it's about time Apple brought out a new version of iWork. The > current one is 3 years old and I'm afraid when they do, it's going to be more > like the IOS version but I'll just have to wait and see. > > Anyway, to finish with iWork for the Mac, Keynote is also perfectly > manageable for a totally blind person. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > -- > 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.
