[BlindTlk] MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint tutorials-please

Mon Aug 10 14:22:04 UTC 2020

Heather, how would you go about it if you did not have the experience of window eyes before you switch to NVDA? I have some experience with jaws, but not even close to proficient. Are use magnification and limited speech until hi I was not really able to use magnification anymore. Are used capital MAGIC with speech but that was about eight years ago now. I’ve mostly relied on my iPhone since then.
Thanks for any advice Heather you can give me. Please others, chime in!

Please, no one suggest that I go to a training center. I’ve done that. I just really struggled with software and computers in general and when you don’t have the technology to practice away from the center you don’t become as proficient. I just finally after four yrears obtain laptop. 

Ericka Nelson

> On Aug 9, 2020, at 11:34 PM, Heather Field via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I’ve been using NVDA for a year or more now and it’s really great.
> It’s come a long way since it was first released.
> I used Window-eyes until forced to use JAWS when the company was bought out. 
> But, it was an awful experience.
> I found JAWS difficult to learn and fairly unstable on my computer, which is very powerful and fast. The constant crashes and reboots drove me absolutely crazy.
> The last straw came when I realised the high cost of renewing a subscription every year. So, I decided to try NVDA.
> 
> I was worried that NVDA would not be up to the standard I required of a screen-reader in my professional work. But I’ve found it to be wonderful, extremely intuitive, and very stable. I am really pleased with it. I can’t imagine ever going back to JAWS. There are some video tutorials available on the NVDA website but you have to buy them.
> 
> However, There is a list of keyboard commands, available to read or download from their website and I’ve found that  to be enough to get me through and Haven’t needed to buy tutorials.
> NVDA is free to download, so I would encourage you to download it try it out. If it doesn’t work for you no worries.
> If you really like it, then you can make a donation. That’s what I did.
> Hope this helps.
> Warmly,
> Heather Field
> 
> From: Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk
> Sent: Sunday, 9 August 2020 10:55 PM
> To: Ericka via BlindTlk
> Cc: Jude DaShiell
> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint tutorials-please
> 
> It's donationware which means donate if you like it.  The screen reader
> may have its official list on groups.io or freelists.org.  I haven't
> used it for about 8 years having abandoned windows in 2013 for Linux.
> 
>> On Sun, 9 Aug 2020, Ericka via BlindTlk wrote:
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>> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 18:25:01
>> From: Ericka via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Ericka <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint tutorials-please
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>> I know nothing anput NVDA except it is donation and from Australia.
>> 
>> Ericka Nelson
>> 
>>>> On Aug 9, 2020, at 5:18 PM, Vickie via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can you tell me how to get on the NVDA list?  I use word 2007, with windows 10.  However, NVDA doesn?t speak the fields, so I can edit, for my budget. I use a table in Word 2007, and after adding a line to my budget, I need to go to the bottom and change the line numbers, which are in a field box.  The field opens up, like it did on my windows 7 machine, but I can?t change the line numbers because NVDA doesn?t speak what?s in the field.  So, I need help with that. So if anyone knows about that, I?d appreciate it, or how to ask NVDA how to do it.  I know it?s not common to use word 2007 with windows 10, but I paid for it and feel I should be able to use it.  It works well, except for that issue.
>>> Vickie R in Arizona
>>> 
>>> From: Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2020 2:59 PM
>>> To: soloman s via BlindTlk
>>> Cc: Jude DaShiell ; soloman s
>>> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint tutorials-please
>>> 
>>> Microsoft isn't like Linux and the accessible materials available for
>>> money are not written for nvda.  It could be writing on the nvda lists
>>> might get some of those tutorials made available though.  They're
>>> certainly needed given the jaws price tag.  It's got that bad the only
>>> time a child accesses or learns jaws is when they're insured of
>>> employment.
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, soloman s via BlindTlk wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:38:09
>>>> From: soloman s via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>>> Cc: soloman s <teachsolo at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: [BlindTlk] MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint tutorials-please
>>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> I solicit your help in finding good free textbooks/tutorials for
>>>> effectively using MS Office products especially Word, Excel and
>>>> PowerPoint with NVDA.
>>>> I'll be thank if you could direct me to sources where I can
>>>> download/view the same.
>>>> Hope to hearing from you at the earliest.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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