[blindkid] FW: [nabs-l] MORE Help with PowerPoint everyone,

[Carrie Gilmer]

More FYI:

 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Harry Hogue
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:23 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

Makes sense.... Thanks!
 
Harry


--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10:27 PM

Hi all,

The reason I suggested RTF is because I don't think you can move by
character or word in the slide show viewer. Correct me if I'm wrong?
Also sometimes JAWS gets tripped  up on a picture or graphic and it's
hard to move to the rest of the text.
Yes, JAWS works well for creating presentations and the
context-sensitive help is also very good. If you want to learn how
PowerPoint slides are laid out and how to navigate before starting to
build your own presentation, I'd recommend finding someone else's
presentation to read as an example and hitting insert-F1 in each slide
to hear the context-sensitive information about where you are, how to
get from one object to another, etc. That's how I learned to use it.
The only thing I really need sighted help for is if I am selecting
pictures or putting multiple pictures in one slide (to make sure they
don't go on top of each other, are both visible, etc.)

Arielle

On 10/29/08, Harry Hogue <harryhogue at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your help, Arielle! I'll do that!
> Did you say JAWS works for creating slideshows?  I'll have to do that
for a
> final project in one of my classes this semester, so that's good to
know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Harry
>