Hello Adrian, I tried each of the choices that you listed below and none of them worked. If I go into Review and tab to Thesaurus and hit enter or spacebar it closes and takes me back to the document. I just tried alt-r and r and it closed the menu. Shift F7 did nothing at all. It sounds like there is something else going on here. I used the Thesaurus a couple of weeks ago and it did bring up synonyms. This may mean a call to Microsoft support because I have no more hair to pull out. Great suggestions but...
Wayne -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 5:13 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word Review It might help to clarify something, at least to the extent I understand it. When you press the application key or right mouse button then y, a list of synonyms appears that you can go through with the down arrow. At the bottom of that list is the word "thesaurus," which points the way to a bigger source of thesaurus entries. I haven't mastered this second option, but it leads to a combo box with Bing, English, Spanish and other options. You can also get to this thesaurus option by pressing alt-r, then r, or by pressing shift-F7. I do know that shift-F7 works in Word 2007 because I have a note about it going back to that version. However, neither of these last two options brings up the automatic synonyms list that you get with the first (applications/right mouse key) option. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 5:54 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word Review Hi, I have Word 2007 at work but in Spanish, so as Synonyms word in Spanish has no y letter at all, access key used in Spanish may not correspond to the one used English. Moreover, in the Review tab in English Microsoft uses the term “thesaurus”, which is not also used in Spanish. I'll try to check the Microsoft Language Portal, but full UI translations requires an MSDN subscription which is not free, and searching with the & symbol is difficult in the query web UI. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 5:36 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word Review Hi, Fernando. In his original message, Wayne says he is using Word 2007. I would have thought the applications key/y method worked in that version, but maybe not. Does anyone using Word 2007 have the answer? -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 4:12 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word Review Hi Wayne, You were explained many different ways to getting synonyms. Regarding word definitions, the Insights (Smart Lookup in other languages) feature is available since Word 2013, not in prior versions. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of wayne smith Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 1:10 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] MS Word Review Hello all- I am using Windows 7 64bit with MS Word 2007. I have a word in the document that I would like a definition or synonym for. I highlighted the word, Opened the Review menu and tabbed to the Thesaurus since I could not find a Definition button. I pressed spacebar on the Thesaurus and it throws me back into the document instead of giving me a synonym. How can I get the Thesaurus to work? Thanks in advance, Wayne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/