[stylist] Using Track Changes In MS Word

Tue May 27 12:28:04 UTC 2014

Hi Ashley,
If you type ALT, followed by R, followed by T, followed by D, you land on a combo box. It says Final, show markup. This means that Word is showing the changes you are making now, plus the ones someone before you made. If you arrow this box down until it says "Final," and press ENTER, you will see only the changes you made. It will look as if Track Changes is turned off. But, with JAWS, as soon as I make a change and then review it, it disappears, this is why I like to use NVDA. NVDA does not flake out after I read the changes I make, and the messages it uses to tell me about the changes when Track Changes is on, and I tell it to show editor revisions in its Document dialog are short and sweet. 

Another thing I like to do when I modify documents others make, when possible, is to delete and insert whole phrases. This way, if I want to compare insertions and deletions, and hear the changes, the verbalizations are much easier to read, and make more sense. I also try to insert and delete whole words, rather than parts of words. Neither of these is always practical to do, but when I am able to do it like this, it is easier to read the changes.

Thanks.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett via stylist
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 7:51 PM
To: Bridgit Pollpeter; Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Using Track Changes In MS Word

I hate track changes too. glad its not just me.  it makes the writing sound 
jumbled when attempting to read with jaws then; when I try to use jaws by 
getting a list of comments, I cannot tell what comment goes with what line 
of text. So, I resort to sighted help; they can see the comments to the side 
and its clear to a   sighted reader what the comment is refering to.

I much prefer another way and if I can work with someone doing this, I do 
so. for instance, if they place ** by their comments and some indicator to 
end their comment, it works better.

JMO

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Pollpeter via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:01 PM
To: 'Homme, James' ; 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] Using Track Changes In MS Word

I hate track changes and find it often changes the formatting on my end.
I've only had to work with track changes once before, when I worked for
a PR firm, but I really hated it.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme,
James via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:16 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] Using Track Changes In MS Word

Hi,
I forget if I said this before, so please forgive me if I did. When I
turn Track Changes on in Microsoft word, because I'm collaborating with
someone to make changes to documents, I have found that NVDA is much
easier for me to work with than JAWS is, because right after I make a
change with JAWS, the text I just changed seems to disappear. I have to
get out of Word and back in again by using ALT+TAB. With NVDA, though,
the text does not disappear. Also, NVDA has shorter messages that speak
the changes as I read through documents. I can stay right in my document
and keep editing. This makes me more efficient.

There is a trade off, though. It takes longer to find my place sometimes
with NVDA, because it can't read from cursor to beginning or end of
line, read the current sentence, and reliably read by paragraph. For
making changes that involve Track  changes, though, I usually read
line-by-line, so the short-comings are somewhat off-set.

Thanks.

Jim

Thanks.

Jim

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