Hi all, I'm looking for some advice on using mac os in a home office. I have used windows for many years, and have only in the last year or so started to use a mac laptop.

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I would consider myself a power user on windows, whereas I am intermediate at best on mac - realistically, more like beginner.I haven't used the mac os very much at all in that time, mostly bootcamping my macbook air with windows 10. I have used OSX just long enough to know there a couple things I really like about it, and a couple things that might just be deal breakers. I am setting up a home office, and will be doing a significant amount of work from home, and I am considering mac os for my work needs.

I have used pages and numbers a bit, but haven't been impressed. I've also downloaded ms office and have been even less impressed with word and excel. My spreadsheet needs will be fairly light, but I would need to at least make small sheets with basic formulas. I have done all this and more with jaws, but would really like to consolidate my computing on the mac platform if possible. I love the simplicity of having all my stuff immediately on my phone and IPad.

Any advice is really appreciated, especialy from anyone who has extensive experience on mac and windows. Should I just bite the bullet and stay with windows 10? It's got a lot going for it, especially with narrator support getting better to resolve jaws and NVDA crashes. Thanks b Forum: • User Options • or to post comments. In March of last year, I switched over to Mac for my home PC.

I work voluntarily for some non-profit organizations. This requires that I use office applications, but not to the extent that I would if I had to do all of my work on the Mac. I love the Mac. I even find myself trying to use Voiceover commands on the Windows machine I have for work because they just come naturally to me even though most of my day is spent in Windows. Having said all of that, I am not sure I could transition to Mac for all of my office needs.

It is doable I think. It may even be that with more exposure to Pages I would find it a fine replacement for Word, but I have stayed with the familiar, working with files I know everyone can use and not being concerned that converting to and from Pages might introduce errors. However, Word on the Mac has some quirks. The most annoying and actually not limited to Word is the tendancy to jump away from the part of the document you are working on if you switch away or even sometimes when using other functions in the program. Mac os x high sierra final by techsviewer for amda. I have to remember to keep cursor tracking turned off while editing word files and then remember that I need to turn it on for other functions to work as I expect. I tried setting this up to be automatic but it caused my computer to hang.

Voiceover doesn't handle complex documents that well, and only reads with the cursor keys if you keep the view in print layout. Excel is a bigger problem. Maybe I just don't know how to work with it, but I finally gave up.

Thankfully, Numbers works fine for the level of spreadsheet editing I need and I've not yet had any trouble exporting to Excel format when necessary. Bottom line, if I had to spend 8 hours a day working in office apps, sadly I must report that I might have to go back to Windows. However, I am not the long-time user you are seeking, so the best I can say is that you may not find the transition an easy one, but I'll concede that there may be methods for an accomplished Mac user to function well in office applications. One final note though, I never see good answers to the spreadsheet woes people have brought up since I've been paying attention. • or to post comments #2 thanks Submitted by roxtar on 8 September, 2017.