[nabs-l] Setting formatting options with Jaws and Microsoft Word

[Katie Wang]

Hi, all,
  I agree that headers and footnotes are annoying-- I usually ask
someone sighted to check that everything is in the right place before
I hand in a formal paper-- so any tips about how to do this accurately
and independently would be much appreciated. As for Rachel's question
about reading comments, I usually just navigate through the document
like I normally would, And JAWS will read the comment when
encountering one in the text. this is a bit slow and tedious with long
documents, but I found it much more useful than reading the comments
by themselves.
   Katie

On 12/6/10, Rachel Becker <Rachel at beckerconsultants.com> wrote:
> While we're on the subject of formatting in MS word, I am having a problem
> with the footnotes for my paper not appearing on the right pages. Has anyone
> else had this problem? Does anyone have a solution? Also, if you have a
> document with comments inserted into it is there a way to read the document
> and the comments at the same time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
> Behalf Of Anita Adkins
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 12:07 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Setting formatting options with Jaws and Microsoft
> Word
>
>
> Hey,
>
> Sorry I can't give too much help with this, but I agree this is a headache.
> If you put the header on, I notice that the document seems unreadable.
> However, if you close it and reopen it, you can tell it has worked, and/or
> if you alt+tabbed out of it and into a different document, you can also
> access the document again.  What I mean is that when I first did this for
> one of my classes, I thought I could no longer access the text in the
> document, but once I left the document and returned, I could then read the
> text.  I'm sure you are also aware that alt+delete will tell you exactly how
> far in your cursor is sitting from the left, and so this can tell you how
> far in a header might start.  insert+f tells you the font and paragraphing
> and such as well.  I would go find my document and play for you, but right
> now, I am so extremely busy that I do not have time.  Anita
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liz Bottner" <liziswhatis at hotmail.com>
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> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:47 AM
> Subject: [nabs-l] Setting formatting options with Jaws and Microsoft Word
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>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm wondering if any of you have had success in setting formatting options
>> with Microsoft Word and Jaws? I'm using Word2007. Specifically, I am
>> wanting
>> to add a running header on the document with text and a page number. I can
>> navigate to the header and footer options area, but once there, it isn't
>> looking like it is very accessible. I'm using Jaws 11. Any tips or tricks
>> would be fantastic! As someone who is completely blind, formatting is my
>> nemesis. The keystrokes aren't the problem, it's making sure it has done
>> what you want it to do.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, and take care,
>>
>>
>>
>> Liz
>>
>>
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