[gui-talk] Office 2010 Difficulty

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Thu Mar 3 16:23:20 UTC 2011


Thank you.  I did and all is well.

Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone


On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:24, Ted Shelly <tshelly at optonline.net> wrote:

> Is your computer a laptop with a touch-pad style mouse interface?  Sometimes
> static charges or accidently touching the pad causes random mouse behavior.
> Consider disabling it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 2:19 PM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Office 2010 Difficulty
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm having a frustrating time with one aspect of Office 2010.  I'm using a
> HP 64-bit machine running Windows 7 and the latest version of JAWS 12.  The
> problem is this:  when using Outlook to compose or reply to a message or
> when composing a document in Word, I begin to type and suddenly find myself
> in either a new message, a new Word document or a dialog such as "find and
> replace".  It's as if when typing, the cursor is being moved around and
> lands in other fields.  This happens especially when I am typing quickly
> (over 120 wpm).  I don't know if this is a JAWS problem or an Office 2010
> problem.  I initially thought it was the former but I started a document,
> unloaded JAWS and kept typing and eventually ended up in another field
> anyway so it may be a Windows 7 problem or one with my machine.
> 
> Also, occasionally Outlook or another program becomes unresponsive for a few
> seconds.  JAWS still talks but it takes a while for the program to wake up.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered these problems and, if so, what was the
> solution?  And saying "get Window-eyes" isn't the answer I'm looking for as
> this may not even be a screen-reader problem although I wonder.
> 
> T I A!
> 
> Mike Freeman
> sent from my iPhone
> 
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