Hi,
I tried to send this post to the list yesterday, but it wouldn't go
through for some strange reason. So, I copy/pasted it into this
message. You'll find it below:
Hello fellow Window-eyes users,
Does anybody know how to select a portion of text within a word 2007
document, and
delete (just that particular portion of text alone), without disturbing
any other
part of the document? In word 2003, with a document opened, I tried
selecting text,
by holding down the control and shift keys, while pressing right arrow,
then pressing
the delete key. Doing it this way, worked. But when I tried to do this
same thing
at school, while I was in a dialogue like looking box, that allows you
to type in
information to create a cover page, using word 2007, it wouldn't work.
Word 2007
wouldn't let me select and delete text in the manner to which I've
described above.
For those of you who have word 2007, to get to the dialogue box I'm
refering to,
do the following:
1. With a blank word 2007 document opened, press alt to bring up the
file menu, (sorry,
I mean ribbon), I'm not familliar with the jargon this version uses,
and press right
arrow until you hear insert.
2. Arrow down, until you hear Window-eyes say something to the effect
of "Pages and
cover page ETC, ETC," it says a lot of stuff and I can't remember it
all right now,
but anyway, you press enter on this, and then you'll be placed into a
list box sort
of menu, that has such things as alphabet, conservitive, ETC, there are
fifteen different
choices. I select conservitive.
3. Next, the dialogue like looking box I mentioned above, will come up.
When I hit
tab once, Window-eyes says, "r1c1 company name." If you press tab
again, you'll hear
"R1c2 document title" tab a third time, and you'll hear "document sub
title" Hope
your getting the idea. As you tab through this, typing in whatever you
want, you'll
eventually come to a field, that asks you to type in the abstract of
the document,
and it goes on to explain what an abstract is. If an abstract is
anything like what
I think it is, its sort of like the thesis of the document, where you
explain about
what your report will be discussing. For the cover page I'm going to be
typing for
class, this (abstract) is not needed, but I know that if an abstract
was required,
this is where I'd type it. So, now, here's where things get tricky. I
have to get
rid of the little paragraph, that talks about what an abstract is. My
professor did
it, simply by clicking on something with the physical mouse. I've heard
that we can
use the mouse with Window-eyes, but I'm more (keyboard) oriented. I'd
feel more comfortable
if I could do this from the keyboard. Any assistance would be
appreciated. By the
way, somebody mentioned to me something about an audio tutorial
regarding the word
2007 ribbon, I think it was KathyAnn. I got the tutorial, but with
school and everything
else going on, I just haven't had a chance to really sit down and
listen to it yet.
Mike
Rochester, NY.
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