[Blindtlk] Microsoft Word, or JAWS question...

justin williams justin.williams2 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 02:52:43 UTC 2015


True.
Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews via blindtlk
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 9:51 PM
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Cc: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com>
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Microsoft Word, or JAWS question...

That assumes that he is using JAWS, which isn't universal.

Dave

At 08:18 PM 12/8/2015, you wrote:
>Insert f2 for settings center, then use shift control d for default.  
>Type in ribbon, then it should pull up use virtual ribbon, and give you 
>the option to check it.  Then just hit enter, or just tab to okay. 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindtlk
>[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of James Kelm via 
>blindtlk Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 9:14 PM To: Blind Talk 
>Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> Cc: James Kelm 
><jameskelm at earthlink.net> Subject: Re:
>[Blindtlk] Microsoft Word, or JAWS question... 
>Howdy...  Just out of curiosity, is there such a easy setting in Word 
>that will change the Ribbon set up to the old XP style?  Maybe I am the 
>only one, but I got so use to Windows's regular menus, and now have 
>just never completely made friends with the Ribbon style.  Maybe I'm 
>just an old guy that doesn't like change, but I hate Ribbons!  LOLL 
>James -----Original Message-----
>From: justin williams via blindtlk Sent: 
>Tuesday, December 08, 2015 7:46 PM To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List' Cc: 
>justin williams Subject:
>Re: [Blindtlk] Microsoft Word, or JAWS question... Go to alt f, then 
>hit the letter t for options, then arrow down to display. Uncheck 
>anything that is related to reading paragraph markers, or space 
>markers. Justin -----Original
>Message----- From: blindtlk
>[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones via 
>blindtlk Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 8:43 PM To: Blind Talk 
>Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> Cc: Judy Jones 
><sonshines59 at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Microsoft Word, or JAWS 
>question... I also use Windows 7 with Word 2010 at work, same thing 
>happened quite a while ago, but have not had the time to trouble-shoot.  
>I think it may be in the Views Tab, maybe Show Markup, but not sure 
>about those.  I also would appreciate advice. Judy -----Original 
>Message----- From: James Kelm via blindtlk Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 
>2015 2:08 PM
>To: Blind Talk Cc: James Kelm Subject: 
>[Blindtlk] Microsoft Word, or JAWS question... 
>Hello everyone.  I hope that you will be able to help me correct an 
>issue that is driving me
>crazy!     I am using Windows 7, Word 2010, and 
>JAWS Professional.  Everything has been working wonderfully, and I have 
>been going smoothly.  Last night I shut down my computer, and then of 
>course this morning booted back up once I was back at work.  But I do 
>not know if I accidently checked something, unchecked something, or did 
>some other little thing that I was not aware of. No one else has access 
>to my computer, unless evil little elves broke into my office last 
>night, and messed with my computer
>and then ran away laughing!  LOLL     The 
>problem doesn’t seem to be in any other program other than MS Word. 
>But everything reads fine when I do a read all command.  But when I 
>either navigate word by word or letter by letter, JAWS is now suddenly 
>saying “space marker” at every space, and “paragraph marker” at 
>every paragraph. It use to simply say “blank”, if it was on a empty 
>line, and space if I was going letter by letter, or word by word.  But 
>now it seems to be speaking all of the “"format markings, which is 
>confusing, and
>far more information than I need.     Does 
>anyone know how I can get JAWS to not give all of the additional 
>information? James _______________________________________________ 
>blindtlk

         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org


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