Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread Timothy J. Meloy
Pages will open word documents. Key note is used for power point presentations. HTH TJ On Feb 1, 2013, at 2:58 AM, George Cham george.c...@outlook.com wrote: Hi Ann, Will pages and keynote open Microsoft word documents ? George, Sent from my iPad On 01/02/2013, at 6:24 PM, Anne

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello George, You can open MS Word documents with TextEdit or Pages. I work with Word documents all the time as a freelance translator and I use Pages since it keeps most of the formatting correct. The only problems I have are with missing fonts and a few anomlies in the way text boxes and

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread George Cham
Thanks, so if pages opens word documents, does it open excel as well? And if microsoft office is not required, does the Mac come with an email program? George, Sent from my iPad On 01/02/2013, at 8:00 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello George, You can open MS Word

Re: thoughts braille touch or IOS

2013-02-01 Thread chris h (sky)
Sounds like you haven't got the one with the keyboard. BrailleTouch allows you to type with all six dots, unlike other Brailling apps. On 01/02/2013 02:22, Glenn wrote: I wonder if Braille Touch is that stupid app I bought that has you press weird combinations for the letters. I have one app,

RE: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread David Griffith
The Mac comes with Text Edit for free which is a respectable basic word processor and Mail which is a good email program. It does not, as far as I am aware have a free spreadsheet solution. Personally I would counsel that if you are a heavy Office user then at the very least you will have a

Re: Read to go issue

2013-02-01 Thread Ian Harrison
Thanks - I will be updating soon. I was wondering whether it occurs when the files are zipped prior to transfer in itunes. Regards Ian On 01 February 2013, at 05:48, Sarah k Alawami wrote: Are you using ios 6.0.1? if so there was an update to ios that fixed this issue. If voice over comes on

Re: proximity sensor?

2013-02-01 Thread Gordon, Lynne Tracy
Hello all This thread has absolutely no relevance to the topics of this group. Please do not continue this discussion. If you wish too, please take it off list. This group is an Apple discussion forum, not a mobility or other non-Apple group. Your compliance with group policy would be greatly

itunes match question

2013-02-01 Thread william lomas
hi to all if i want to use itunes match and i import new songs to go in to the cloud directly in to itunes i assume those imported songs will still take up room on the macbook air hard drive? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread Phil Halton
I believe Pages will open word documents with the .doc extension, but the newer .docx extension that is created by word 2010 is not handled by Pages. - Original Message - From: Timothy J. Meloy tme...@fuse.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Friday,

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, I'm currently working in Pages on a .docx document. Perhaps Pages doesn't handle all the features of .docx but it certainly does open the documents. Cheers, Anne On 1 Feb 2013, at 15:31, Phil Halton philh...@comcast.net wrote: I believe Pages will open word documents with the

Re: another transmit problem (sorry)

2013-02-01 Thread Travis Siegel
If you're not absolutely stuck on a gui ftp program, you can try the ftp client that comes with osx. Simply open your terminal app (it's located in the utilities folder under applications) then just type ftp server where server is the address of the ftp server you want to connect to.

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread Danny Noonan
The free iText express will open and save the newer word documents. I think it keeps most formatting as well. Danny Sent from my iPhone On 02/02/2013, at 1:31 AM, Phil Halton philh...@comcast.net wrote: I believe Pages will open word documents with the .doc extension, but the newer .docx

Microsoft Office for Mac! accessibility input.

2013-02-01 Thread Sean Murphy
All, I saw the below post on another email list and thought anyone here who wishes to improve the accessibility of MS Office, might want to give their feedback. he person I'm dealing with is Sara. She asked me to ask if you could give examples. For example lack of labeling,