Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-11 Thread Jonathan Cohn
ednesday, August 10, 2016 7:11 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac > > I have recently made the switch myself. I don’t use Excel regularly but I > do use Word. The good news is that all of the familiar formatting tools > and tricks are ava

Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-11 Thread Jonathan Cohn
lf Of Larry Thacker Jr. > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 7:11 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac > > I have recently made the switch myself. I don’t use Excel regularly but I > do use Word. The good news is that a

Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-11 Thread Scott Granados
Hi Jenine, I use office 2016 on the Mac and it works well. The outlook works very well and word / xl work as you’d expect at least for this limited user. I still prefer pages and numbers to do these tasks but if your work insists on the office products you should be fine. Also, it’s office

RE: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-11 Thread Frank Ventura
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com> wrote: > You do get some of the navigation that’s more familiar, but I have > had a very annoying problem with losing Voiceover focus when going from page > to page and e

RE: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-11 Thread Frank Ventura
Jr. Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 7:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac I have recently made the switch myself. I don’t use Excel regularly but I do use Word. The good news is that all of the familiar formatting tools and tricks

Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-10 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Larry Thacker Jr. wrote: > You do get some of the navigation that’s more familiar, but I have > had a very annoying problem with losing Voiceover focus when going from page > to page and especially after performing some function that required going to > the ribbon.

Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-10 Thread Jenine Stanley
Thanks for this analysis. I need to try Word again on my MBP. I have Office 360, or is that 365? I can never keep that one in my head. Anyway, I tried Word initially and couldn’t get the VO cursor out of the header. I wasn’t making any progress with Excel either an d I use it daily for what I

Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-10 Thread Larry Thacker Jr.
I have recently made the switch myself. I don’t use Excel regularly but I do use Word. The good news is that all of the familiar formatting tools and tricks are available on the Mac version. The Bad news is you may have trouble figuring out how to get at them. On the one hand Microsoft may

Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

2016-08-10 Thread Jenine Stanley
I’d like to hear experiences using the current versions, Office 2016, of Word and Excel with El Capitan. I’m considering switching over to a Mac for work and those are the programs I use most often. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com -- The following information is important for all