[nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi all,

The reason I suggested RTF is because I don't think you can move by
character or word in the slide show viewer. Correct me if I'm wrong?
Also sometimes JAWS gets tripped  up on a picture or graphic and it's
hard to move to the rest of the text.
Yes, JAWS works well for creating presentations and the
context-sensitive help is also very good. If you want to learn how
PowerPoint slides are laid out and how to navigate before starting to
build your own presentation, I'd recommend finding someone else's
presentation to read as an example and hitting insert-F1 in each slide
to hear the context-sensitive information about where you are, how to
get from one object to another, etc. That's how I learned to use it.
The only thing I really need sighted help for is if I am selecting
pictures or putting multiple pictures in one slide (to make sure they
don't go on top of each other, are both visible, etc.)

Arielle

On 10/29/08, Harry Hogue <harryhogue at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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