[nfbcs] Learning Windows 7

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

With Word and Excel, you will need to get used to the ribbon instead of the menu bar.  I put it off for a long time but finally had to do it.  It is a pain, but one can manage it with a little work.  Many shortcuts work 
the same, but if you used menus to get places, you will find that to be different.  What I would suggest, though, is that you just take the time at the beginning to find things you commonly used to do on the 
ribbon and that you make a chart of how to get there with the accellerator keys.  If you do that, you will find it isn't as bad as it first seems.  In addition, I find Microsoft Office's help to be kind of a pain, but if you 
learn to use that you will find out where things are pretty well.  The trick is to take notes somewhere so you don't have to go through all the trouble repeatedly, and over time you'll get good at just using new 
keystrokes to get where you need to go.  There is also a quick access toolbar that is something you can add commands you use often that can help.  Finally, while many keystrokes change, ALT-F still brings 
up something that is similar to the old file menu, although other such keystrokes do not work.  When you get there, some of us can probably help.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:57:22 -0400, Tracy Carcione wrote:

>Thanks Curtis, and everyone else.  Sounds like I don't need to worry much 
>about Windows 7.  We are also moving to Word 2010, so now I'm worried about 
>that.
>I suppose the same places have tutorials for Word, and I believe I saw some 
>stuff on NBP as well.
>Tracy

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Curtis Chong" <curtischong at earthlink.net>
>To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 2:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Learning Windows 7


>> Dear Tracy:
>>
>> I'm not sure if an earlier reply from me reached you because I did not see 
>> it bounced back to me as a post on the NFBCS mailing list.  Nevertheless, 
>> here is what I was trying to say.
>>
>> First, Windows 7 is not all that difficult to learn.  Far more difficult 
>> for people is the transition from Office 2003 to Office 2007, 2010, or 
>> 2013.
>>
>> Windows 7 in and of itself is remarkably similar to Windows XP in terms of 
>> the Windows Desktop and the Run dialog, both of which I use just about 
>> every day.  The Start Menu is something like a rather sophisticated search 
>> engine for your system.  For example, when you press the Windows key, you 
>> are placed in an edit box into which you can type a search term like 
>> "word" or "internet".  The former search term brings up items like 
>> Microsoft Word or WordPad.  The latter brings up an item like "Internet 
>> Explorer".  You arrow down to the item you want and press Enter.
>>
>> To get to the All Programs List after entering the Start Menu, simply 
>> press Up Arrow to get to All programs, and press Right Arrow to open it. 
>> Then continue navigating with Up Arrow.
>>
>> Access Technology Institute (www.blindtraining.com) has a number of 
>> tutorials for Windows 7 depending on the screen reader you use (JAWS or 
>> Window-Eyes).  But each tutorial costs $80.
>>
>> Tech Vision (www.yourtechvision.com) also has information about Windows 7, 
>> and its prices are somewhat less.
>>
>> I can tell you that I've been using Windows 7 for more than two years now, 
>> and it works very well indeed--far better than Windows 8.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> Curtis Chong
>>
>>
>>
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