[nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

[Harry Hogue]

Thanks for your help, Arielle! I'll do that!
Did you say JAWS works for creating slideshows?  I'll have to do that for a final project in one of my classes this semester, so that's good to know.
 
Thanks!
 
Harry
 

--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 7:10 PM

Hi Harry,

If you want to do detailed review of a slide's text the easiest thing
to do is to save the presentation as an RTF (outline) file and then
open it in MS-Word. Open the PowerPoint, go to File, Save As, and
under "Save as Type" select "Outline/RTF" (or something
along those
lines). Name the file and open it in Word. This is also handy if you
need to review lecture notes written in PowerPoint in more detail.

In my experience JFW is OK for creating PowerPoint presentations but
not so great for reviewing them.

Arielle

On 10/29/08, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> First you should be talking to them, not us, secondly sometimes it
> helps to press F5 before reviewing slides.
>
> Dave
>
> At 09:45 PM 10/27/2008, you wrote:
>>
>>Call for help here!  Freedom Scientific goes on and on about how
>>useable Powerpoint is with JAWS... well I need to see it!  I have
>>powerpoints that my French teacher has been sending me, and I need
>>to be able to review the lsides in detail -- character-by-character,
>>wor-by-word, etc... because they're mostly in French... and also I
>>have a Braille display so having them so I could review them with
>>the Braille display would be the ideal thing.  Not too much to ask,
>>I odn't think.  I have tried insert A, but all that does is read
the
>>slide... not let me review it in detail like I need to... an if you
>>can't do that, then Freedom Scientific is seriously missing the
>>mark, since sighted people have that option.  I rest my case.  I'll
>>complain about FS another day.
>>
>>I can send anyone the powerpoint that I'm working with if they want
>>to give it a whirl for themselves.
>>Thanks for the help, guys.
>>
>>Harry
>>
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