[Trainer-talk] Spreadsheets and presentations with the Mac

[Matt Diemert]

Agreed, 
I had a customer a year or so ago who insisted on getting a mac. He was doing computer programming, for windows. He fought my recommendation of a windows based PC all the way to the top, but when it was all said and done, the state agreed with my point of view that he was entering a field that was extremely windows based, and this made it necessary to have a windows based computer with appropriate access technology. 
 
Warm Regards:
Matt Diemert
 May 11, 2012, at 8:40 AM, nancy coffman wrote:

> A consideration is what peers in his profession use. I think a mac in a pc dominated business gets complicated. 
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> nancy coffman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Diemert <mcdiemert at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Trainer-talk] Spreadsheets and presentations with the Mac
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> Chip, any time I recommend a Mac for a client, I base the recommendation heavily on what they need to accomplish with there computing needs. 
> Recently, I had a professor, who wanted to lecture from the classroom, and used the zoom utility in conjunction with voiceover, so I knew she'd have access to office for mac, as well as the iWork suite of applications.
> As it stands iWork is extremely accessible but can definitely lack some power features of the Office suite. Unfortunately, office for mac is currently not accessible with Voiceover. 
> If your client needs basic word, access, as well as access to spread sheets and presentations, then the Mac would likely be ok. If they need advanced access to things such as creating tables and creating formulas in Excel, then ultimately, I still am able to accomplish these tasks easier on a PC. 
>   Regards:
> Matt Diemert
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> On May 10, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Chip Johnson wrote:
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>> Hello Trainers,
>> 
>> One of my students would like me to recommend a Mac for him. My main concern
>> is whether he will be able to format documents, do spreadsheets and create
>> presentations as well as he can with Office and the PC. Does iWork function
>> well with VoiceOver? How well does Office for Mac work with VoiceOver? I
>> want him to have the same level of access and flexibility he would have with
>> Office and Windows. I have thought about a dual-boot system but this would
>> increase the cost of the equipment dramatically. Your thoughts?
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