I should point out of course that Office 365 isn't for everyone.
If you're just going to use Office on a particular platform - say
Windows or Mac - then you're probably better off just bying a
"Stand-alone" office product on a CD or through a download and be done
with it.
If you're planning to use Office across platforms as I do then the 365
subscription ins incredibly and obviously convenient, put Office on your
devices, link up to your Microsoft account, subscribe and that's it! all
your documents in the one place ready for you to work on anywhere at any
time and your choice of device depending on your circumstnaces.
On 2/05/2016 5:13 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
You know, this would have been much better posted to Mac Access. That
group seems to be much devoid of life these days but that may be for a
number of reasons. Many people probably think the group is no longer
available, not correct, of course.
But yes, it’s nice to know that Microsoft is now adhering to Apple’s
accessibility guidelines which were, as you may or may not be aware,
were made much more stringent with the release of El Capitan and iOS9.
There are still some developers who are not in compliance, that is
true. “Megabit” Playout software, for one. But on the whole things
are improving across the board on Apple’s platform which is, as you
rightly point out, most gratifying. 100% Accessibility would be a
most desirable circumstance, of course. But I doubt we will ever see
that anywhere. However, no harm in hoping. As a result of your post
I will go and revive Office 365 on my Mac, as I do have a live
subscription.
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On 1 May 2016, at 10:22, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Everyone!
I’m using Microsoft Word for the Mac as part of Office 2016 to write a
couple of documents and the Word experience just keeps getting better
for the Mac.
I much prefer to use the Mac version of Word these days compared to
the Windows PC as the Mac menu system is there as well as the ribbon
though even if Microsoft had chosen not to include a menu system then
the ribbon would still be easily accessible.
Somehow the Word ribbon makes more sense to me on a Mac than it does
on the Windows PC and looks far better presented onscreen, that could
be of course purely because I’m so used to navigating the screen on a
Mac as a matter of course anyway.
I’m extremely pleased to find that Microsoft have fixed the bug in
Word where numbering wasn’t announced when cursoring through a list in
a document, Word also reports when the user is entering into or
exiting out of lists and so on.
As list members will know I’m also fond of Word on the iPad.
I hope Microsoft continue with the good work and its really about time
we had access to the worlds most popular Word Processing package
across platforms.
And yes, we have Google Docs too! I’ve not explored Google Docs on the
iPhone for quite some time but last time I was able to use it
satisfactorily. Google Docs is perfectly accessible on Android
devices and accessible on a Windows PC through the Window-Eyes Screen
Reader and Google Chrome, I know there are Mac users who also use
Google Docs through Chrome.
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