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Newbie struggling with new iMac - Help!!!

By Kerry, 28 February, 2015

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Hi All,

Firstly about me i am in the UK so we may have terminology issues, I am Registered Severely Visually Imp (Legally Blind?) My Acuity is Left - 3/60 Right - Perceives Light Only and I have severely reduced field in both eyes <5 degrees.

I recently took the rather brave (?) step of swicthing from PC to Mac and I am now attempting to drive a 27" iMac with with a LogicKeyboard Low Vision Apple Keyboard.

Functionally all is good, I chickened out and have Office 2011 for Mac installed as i need some familiarity to what i am used to. there are however a few things that I could use some advice with.

Changing the default menu font size - the only way i have found of doing this is to reduce the Display resolution which makes it clearer but surely there is a way of increasing the font size of the application menus.

Highlighting text - now this may be a Mac newbie thing but when i highlight text to copy / paste it there is no evidence of the highlighting (colour inversion that I was used to on the PC) Also I have just found with Twitter that hyperlinks and Hashtags when composing a tweet appear invisible, they may be a similar colour to the background but my contrast perception is fairly poor so they just ain't there, how can i cghange the default colour schemes.

The only other gripe I have at the moment is that the Phone book on my iPhone 6+ doesn't seem to be synchronising with my Outlook Address book, any thoughts?

Thanks for taking the time to get thsi far.

Regards

Kerry

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Hi,

By Justin

7 years 11 months ago

Hi,
Welcome to applevis! First off, in regards to office for mac, I wouldn't have a clue as to using it since it wasn't usable with VoiceOve, or at least it wasn't when I tried using it a few years back.
The iPhone contacts thing can only be done with iTunes or iCloud as far as I know.
Thats al I have, in reguards to the mac, congrats on getting one, and you'll definitely enjoy it once you get things figured out. There's a learning curve, but once that is figured out, it should be smooth sailing from that point onwards.
Take care!

it's ok with Microsoft's account

By Berty

7 years 11 months ago

Hi Kerry. First of all, if you have properly configure your OutLook account, go in to iPhone's settings >> Mail, Contacts, calendar >> "Your OutLook account", then turn on the contacts.

Secondly, go to your contacts >> Groups and Check all Outlook and it will sync automatically.

That/s only what I've got for you. Hope that's helps.

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