[nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

[Maria Kristic]

Just to let you know, you should be able to just press F5 after opening a
PowerPoint presentation, and it'll run as a slide show. I just looked up the
shortcut to see if it was available in Office 2007, since I have 2003, and
it is. Also, I can move character by character when reading the slide as I
am running a slide show, and I personally haven't had issues with JAWS not
reading past certain items--this is currently with Office 2003, though, and
I can't speak to Office 2007 from personal experience. BTW, if anyone has a
PACMate Omni here and hasn't yet tried it, running a slide show in PPT
Mobile pretty much works the same way--SPACE and BACKSPACE move you forward
and backward, respectively, through slides, and the slides are presented in
the Virtual Viewer.

Cheers,
Maria
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-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Brice Smith
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:36 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

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