[blindLaw] Turning off track changes

[Michal Nowicki]

Rahul,

Turning Track Changes on or off has no effect on previously-made changes that have not been accepted or rejected. If you don't want JAWS to announce Track Changes that were made before you turned off the feature, do one of the following from within that document:
1. If you want to see the original text, change the document markup to "original."
2. If you want to see a clean version of the proposed changes (as if you accepted all changes, but without actually accepting them, switch to "no markup."
3. When you are ready for JAWS to report all changes again, switch to "all markup."
4. All these options are available in a list through which you can navigate with up and down arrow after pressing alt r t d.

JAWS recognizes these changes and responds accordingly.

I hope this helps.

Michal

-----Original Message-----
From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Shannon Dillon via BlindLaw
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 2:45 PM
To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Shannon Dillon <shannonldillon at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Turning off track changes

Hi Rahul,

Are you saying that once you press control+shift+E to turn off track changes, the screenreader continues to identify changes you make as revisions? I think that is what you are saying but wanted to confirm.
I'm in JAWS 2020.2008.24 and do not have this problem. Once I turn off track changes, my computer does not identify when I have made revisions except for parts of the document where track changes was turned on when I made revisions.

I'm in office 365 and Windows 10. So my version of office is different from yours.

If you update does it help?

Shannon



On 12/9/20, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Word 16, JAWS version 2020.2006.12, on a Windows 10 machine. I 
> have been facing the following problem in the last few days. Even 
> after I turn of track changes, by pressing control+shift+e, JAWS 
> continues to announce the revisions made. It will say 'revision', 
> 'deleted', etc. So it does not register the command. Even though it 
> does say 'track changes off' when I press the keystroke.
>
> Why could this be happening? Is there an alternative way to turn off 
> track changes? I often have to make some changes in track and others 
> not. So this bug prevents me from doing that.
>
> Rahul
>
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