[nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

[Harry Hogue]

Thanks, that makes it really readable!
 
Harry


--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Brice Smith <brsmith2424 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Brice Smith <brsmith2424 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, 9:35 PM

I've used powerpoints extensively, and another super easy way to read
them is to go to the slide show and view the powerpoint as a
slideshow. For Office 2007, after you open the file, arrow right until
you hear slides, press tab once to hear "slide show,"and press enter.
You move through slides with the space bar and the backspace. Of
course, you can always save the presentation as an RTF file, but it's
just as easy to activate a slideshow and read through the presentation
that way.
I rarely save to RTF, because often, depending on how the presentation
was made, it is hard to determine which slide contains what
information and the document becomes somewhat confusing to read.

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