I have only recently began using Office 2007. So far, I have only used Word and Outlook. The familiar dropdown menus have been replaced by something called ribbons. They are basically two rows of radio buttons. Some of them correspond roughly to options that you know from the old dropdown menus, and some are different. However, there are key commands that you can use to directly access options, but there is some learning and memorization involved. Doing things in office 2007 is different, but it is accessible with JAWS. An dy
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joanne Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] which Microsoft suites are most Jaws accessible? I was looking around for free trials of some of the Microsoft suites such as Office 2007 Standard and Office 2007 for Home and Student, etc. I did try to install one of these and kept getting a "cannot proceed with install" error, so don't know what's going on there. But what I'm also wondering is, I would like to eventually own a very simple version of, say, Office, as I may need Microsoft Word sometimes. I use Word Pad now for most things, but am just thinking I probably need one of these Office versions in case I need Word or in case my daughter needs to use Power Point or something else for school when her computer isn't working. The Home and Student 2007 looks to be the least expensive, but since I'm getting this install error I don't know if it is practical and accessible for Jaws users. My sighted friend says the menus are different on this version of Office so didn't know how Jaws would respond. Just wondering what some of you thought and which of these products might be the simplest to use. Thanks. Joanne 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/
