You can try setting your zoom to 75%. If that doesn't help, try these steps. Configuring the Display of Microsoft Word and XP
Before launching into the use of Microsoft Word on your computer, you are going to want to make sure that the display is configured correctly. The screen readers have files which allow for information to be echoed from the screen. In order for the associated screen reader commands to function properly, it is important that the display be properly configured. This is easily accomplished through a couple of dialogs located in the menus of Microsoft Word. The configuration exercise will give you practice in accessing a variety of Windows controls as well as the menus of Microsoft Word. If you follow these instructions, you won't get lost and can't hurt your computer or Word application. If you get nervous and want to quit at any time, pressing the ESCAPE KEY will stop Word from making any changes to the application. Follow along with me as we configure the display of Microsoft Word. Trust me, it is easier than you think! When Microsoft Word 2000/XP is installed on a computer, it displays its toolbars as one entity. This is something which drives the screen readers to distraction. They won't perform certain tasks properly because the display is not set properly. The first thing you need to do is configure the toolbars of Microsoft Word so the standard and formatting toolbars reside on separate rows. The menus of Microsoft Word can also be troublesome. By default, they are configured to show only a few commands and, after a few seconds, they will expand to display the rest of the options available. This can cause the screen reader to lose focus. By disabling the option to show he most recently used commands first, Microsoft Word displays the menus normally and the screen readers breathe a sigh of relief. The first step is to configure the options that cause the toolbars and menus to behave so oddly. To accomplish this, we will access an option within the tools menu and open a dialog. By unchecking to "check boxes," the toolbars and menus of Microsoft Word are configured to display their contents properly. To configure the toolbars and menus of Microsoft Word, follow these steps: List of 4 items . Open the tools menu . Cursor down to customize and press enter. This will open a customize dialog with three property sheets. Property sheets are like pages of a notebook which contain options for a particular aspect of an application. The property sheet you need to access is the "options" property sheet. This property sheet is easily accessed with a shortcut key. . Press ALT - O to access the "options" property sheet. . Once the focus of the cursor is on the options property sheet, the TAB KEY will cycle the focus of the cursor among the options on the sheet. list end Word 2000 List of 5 items . Press the TAB KEY one time until you hear "Standard and formatting toolbars share one row. If you did not hear the option spoken, or wish to repeat it, the screen readers offer this option. -- Window-Eyes users press CTRL - SHIFT - N to hear the field name repeated. -- JFW users, press INSERT - TAB to hear the current field repeated. . The control associated with the toolbars is a checkbox. Use the spacebar to toggle the selection of the checkbox off. This checkbox should be unchecked. . Press the TAB KEY one more time to access the "menus show recently used commands first" option. . Once again, press the spacebar to uncheck this checkbox. . Press ENTER to save your changes. list end The dialog will close and the changes will be saved to the configurations for Microsoft Word. Word XP List of 5 items . Press the TAB KEY one time until you hear "Show Standard and Formatting Toolbars on One Row." If you did not hear the option spoken, or wish to repeat it, the screen readers offer this option. -- Window-Eyes users press CTRL - SHIFT - N to hear the field name repeated. -- JFW users, press INSERT - TAB to hear the current field repeated. . The control associated with the toolbars is a checkbox. Use the spacebar to toggle the selection of the checkbox on. This checkbox should be checked. . Press the TAB KEY one more time to access the "Always Show Full Menus" option. . Once again, press the spacebar to check this checkbox. . Press ENTER to save your changes. list end The dialog will close and the changes will be saved to the configurations for Microsoft Word. The View Menu Once you have completed the configuration of your toolbars, you will want to check a few other things in the view menu of Microsoft Word. When certain actions are taken in Microsoft Word, the view can easily be switched to one which will display pages as they will be printed rather than a view which presents the text in a normal fashion without a graphical page view or in a web layout. The view should always be "normal." In addition, you will want to make sure that only the standard and formatting toolbars are displayed. When actions are taken on a document, toolbars can also pop into view, you will need to know how to enable and disable the toolbars in order to maintain the display of the application. All of these options are located in the view menu of Microsoft Word. In order to enable or disable an option within the view menu, you will need to press enter on the option. When enter is pressed, the menu is closed and the focus returned to the document. You will need to re-enter the view menu to enable or disable each item. After opening the view menu with the ALT - V keyboard command, the first option you should check is the view. It should be set to "normal" which is the first option in the view menu. If you hear "normal checked" when entering the view menu, you know that the option is enabled and all is well. If you just hear "normal," press enter on the option to enable it and return to the view menu with ALT - V. Within the view menu is a ruler option. This should be checked as well. With the ruler enabled, the screen reader's configuration or set files will function properly. If the ruler is not checked, press enter on the option and then return to the view menu with ALT - V. Finally, it is time to check the toolbars of the application. Only two toolbars should be enabled. The toolbars which should be enabled or "checked" are the standard and formatting toolbars. To check the status of the toolbars, open the view menu with ALT - V and press enter on the toolbars option. This will open a submenu. Use the arrow keys to listen to the options within the toolbars submenu. If anything other than the standard and formatting toolbars are "checked," press enter on the option to disable the toolbar. Each time you enable or disable a toolbar, the focus of the cursor will be returned to the document window, you will need to press the ALT - V keyboard command to return to the view menu. By enabling the formatting and standard toolbar, placing the view in normal, and enabling the ruler, you have configured Microsoft Word to work at peak efficiency with your screen reader. If, at any time, you find that a document does not seem to be reading properly, you may return to the view menu and check to be sure that normal is checked. Many times a document will automatically revert to another view. Placing the view back on normal can correct many errors which might be occurring. ----- Original Message ----- From: Corey Cook To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:23 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws and msword hello all, I am sure I hadthis info on my old computer, but I have lost it. I need to know how to configure ms word 2002 so that will correctly work with jaws 5.10 I think it has something to do with zoom. any help on getting it configured would be great. 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