[blindkid] FW: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

[Carrie Gilmer]

Because I know many sighted students are now doing Power Points in
elementary school, and more teachers and presenters are using it... I
thought it might be helpful to forward a discussion on access to reading it
from the Student list. So here it is FYI:

 
 
Carrie Gilmer, President
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
Home Phone: 763-784-8590
carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
www.nfb.org/nopbc

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Harry Hogue
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:01 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,

Thanks, that makes it really readable!
 
Harry


--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Brice Smith <brsmith2424 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Brice Smith <brsmith2424 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Help with PowerPoint everyone,
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 9:35 PM

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
On 10/28/08, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Harry,
>
> If you want to do detailed review of a slide's text the easiest thing
> to do is to save the presentation as an RTF (outline) file and then
> open it in MS-Word. Open the PowerPoint, go to File, Save As, and
> under "Save as Type" select "Outline/RTF" (or
something along those
> lines). Name the file and open it in Word. This is also handy if you
> need to review lecture notes written in PowerPoint in more detail.
>
> In my experience JFW is OK for creating PowerPoint presentations but
> not so great for reviewing them.
>
> Arielle
>