[blindlaw] Multi Column Word Documents with a Screen Reader

Mon Feb 23 17:57:26 UTC 2015

One man's opinion -- When working in columns, excel is far easier to use
than WORD when using a screen reader.

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From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marc
Grossman via blindlaw
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Subject: [blindlaw] Multi Column Word Documents with a Screen Reader

I am taking a class on Discovery and pre-trial preparation. We have a 100
page deposition transcript that we need to summarize. The instructor has
asked us to prepare a multi-column document with the following information.

Column one: page and line number from the deposition transcript Column two:
summary of the witness testimony Column three: my comments or interpretation

I am using Microsoft Word 2010 on a Windows machine with a screen reader. I
have figured out how to open the dialogue box to create the document with
multiple columns. However, I cannot figure out how to know which column I am
currently typing in or how to move from column to column.

1.       Am I better off creating a table and inserting the text into
different cells?

2.       Am I better off using Microsoft Excel?

Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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