[blindLaw] reading word documents with multiple text columns

[Angie Matney]

Laura, I'm interested to see others' responses. What I sometimes do is to use the read-by-sentence commands, alt+ up or down arrow, rather than just using the arrows to read the document. You can also turn on quick keys (insert + z) and read by paragraph (p to advance to the next paragraph, shipt+ p to go to the previous paragraph). These are the only two ways  I know of for  dealing with columns without changing the document. Maybe others have some good ideas. 

Best, 

Angie
 

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> On Aug 16, 2019, at 7:20 AM, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As some of you may know, if you download opinions from Westlaw in Word
> format, the text displays as two columns on the page.  For reasons
> that are unavoidable, I sometimes need to work with these documents.
> I also need to cite to them as they are displayed, so converting is
> yet again not an option.  Neitehr is going to Westlaw itself and
> reading the opinion directly or via another format.  I can do that if
> all I need is the info; I can't if I need to cite it.
> 
> When I try reading these documents with Jaws, it will just read
> straight down the column instead of going back up to the top of the
> page to read the other column.  Does anyone know of a setting I can
> change so that Jaws will recognize and read these documents correctly?
> 
> Thanks,
> Laura
> 
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