[nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

[Maria Kristic]

To review a PowerPoint, I move in to the text box as if I'm going to edit
it. So, if I open a presentation in PowerPoint 2003 with the Slide
Thumbnails area active, I hit F6 to move to the Slide Area. I'm focused on
the first slide by default, so I TAB until JAWS has indicated that I'm in a
text box of some sort or in the body placeholder, and if I hear that it has
text because JAWS begins to read it, I hit CTRL to silence JAWS, then hit
ENTER to move in to the body/text area as if I'm going to edit it. I can now
move character by character or however I like. When I'm done, I hit ESC,
then TAB over to any other text areas and do the same, or hit PAGE DOWN to
move to the next slide while in the Slide area.

I've also used JAWS to independently create PPT presentations, and, like
Arielle, I just had a sighted person help me deal with picture insertion in
terms of making sure that the positioning was good and such.

HTH,
Maria
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-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Arielle Silverman
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:27 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

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