Hi Edward, at the risk of sounding like one of those who automatically comes to the defense of GW (my screen reader right or wrong), I have to say that I spend a lot of my job working in the Word object model, and unless you're using the mouse and reading the text from the window, that's got to be what they're doing as well when in Word.
I wanted to point out that this model offers no way to determine the text on the current line. that's because a "line" is a variable display unit, depending upon the particular printer being used (if it's in print layout view), or the particular monitor and resolution if in normal view. So, Word just doesn't deal with it. I think normally WE is reading off the windows text, but some time back they switched over from within Word to using it's object model, and I'd bet there's a problem now that they did that. I'll look at adding this to my MS Word macro. I would have to select the text to the beginning (or end) of the line for a fraction of a second, capture it, and unselect it. this could be a problem if you're already selecting text, or if you're in a table, so maybe I can't do it in those situations; I'll have to think about it. You can always send this in to the support address and hope they can fix it. I'll post something on the list if I'm able to do something with this. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Edward Marquette [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: MS Word and the line at the cursor All: Wondering if anyone has found a work-around in Window-Eyes and MS Word 2003 for reading to the right and left of the cursor. Here's what I mean: I've set Alt left arrow and alt right arrow (not on the number pad) to read to the left and the right of the cursor. I've done this across several, if not all, my set files. Inside Outlook, this works like a charm. Inside Word, however, it is a bust. Window-Eyes appears not to know where the cursor actually is. It invariably reads a number of characters to the left of the actual cursor position. I think this must be a bug because if I route the mouse to the cursor and then read from the right of the mouse pointer, all is well. Perhaps I should just write a script here. Anyone else seen this or figured out a convenient solution. Again, this is MS Word 2003 and WE 7.1. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
