Hello Mike, I do not have a system with Word 2002 on it, but here are a few thoughts.
When you save the file just use the name "normal" (without the quotes of course, but also without the period and D O T). Use tab key to the files of type and press enter key on the choice for document templates. The period and the DOT will be added to the file name by the program. Use Alt+I to move to the Save In box and browse to the folder where the normal.DOT is located. In Word 2003 the path is c:\documents and settings\UserName\application data\Microsoft\templates. The choice for the templates folder needs to be in the Look In box so that the template you are saving will overwrite the normal.DOT file in the list of items for that folder. You can find out where your normal.DOT is located by going under the tools menu, choosing options, and using CTRL+tab key until you get to the file locations page tab. A list of file types will be shown but the full path is not shown until you use the modify button. When you use the Modify button, you might need to go to the templates choice and use left arrow key to follow the path in reverse order. You might also want to check to make sure there is no normal.DOT in the Word startup folder. In Word 2003, the path is c:\document and settings\user name\application data\Microsoft\Word\Startup. (If I remember right). The normal.DOT used by Word is the one that is in the location pointed to for user templates in the file location shown in the options. You probably will want to save your original normal.DOT as normal.OLD in case you need to restore the original settings. I am quite sure that using the SaveAs should work, although, I suppose you could try using the Save All command as well. I hope you get it working. Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike & Barbara In Arcadia Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 1:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Saving as Normal.Dot, was Removing links Hi Brian; I have tried to save a Word template as a, Normal.dot, several times but, it keeps reverting back to prior settings. What i'm doing is opening a new Word Doc, document 1, making the settings the way I would like them to be each time I open a new Word doc, from the save as type list, I save it as, Document Template (*.dot), & name it, Normal.dot Am I not naming , saving, or what correctly? I have tried making changes to the Normal.dot file in my templates folder in Documents & Settings but, it still the reverts back to the old settings after a short while. I am running Office / Word 2002 & Jaws 10, 11, 12. All help will be greatly appreciated in getting this little issue resolved. Thanks much. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Lee To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Removing links Hello Wayne, When in Microsoft Word, you can use Alt+CTRL+V to bring up the "paste special" list of choices. Use up arrow to the choice for unformatted text and press enter key. This should paste your information without hyperlinks. If by chance you are using Alt+CTRL+V for something else such as the volume control, in Word 2010 you can apply a keystroke to the "keep text only" function. If using Word 2010 do the following if you want to apply a keystroke to the "keep text only" function: 1. Press Alt+F to use the File button and then press T to open the options dialog. 2. Press C while focus is in the categories list to move to the "customize ribbon" choice. 3. Use tab key to the "customize" button and press spacebar. 4. In the resulting categories list press the letter A until "all commands" is selected. 5. Use tab key to the list of all commands, which might take a couple seconds to populate. 6. Press the letter P and then use a page down key about six times and arrow down to the "paste text only choice. 7. Use tab key to move to the box where you can type in a new shortcut key. I use Alt+Shift+T. 8. Use tab key again to move to the combo box where you choose the template to save your changes. If you save changes in the normal.DOTM template then the keystroke will apply in any new document where you use the applied keystroke. If you want it only for the current document then use down arrow in this combo box and make the appropriate choice. 9. Use tab key to the "assign" button and press spacebar. 10. Use tab key to the "close" button and use spacebar. 11. Use tab key to the OK button and use spacebar. Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of wayne smith Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 6:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Removing links Sorry for the headache. I wanted to paste an online text doc with links built in to every other word into an MS Word doc and make all the links disappear without taking out the associated word. I may resort to retyping the text. Wayne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Ferrin Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 01:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Removing links I've followed the entire thing and I got lost myself. David Ferrin I've reached the age where 'happy hour' is a nap. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Removing links Wow did this thread take a strange turn. I was trying to help out Wayne, who was trying to cut and paste without the word link showing up in his document. Wayne is using JAWS 11, so I was restricting my experiments to that. Then folks said that it could be done, so I wanted to know how, since I wasn't able to figure out how to do it, which you can't, as I already knew. So, I wasn't trying to make it stop saying link for myself, I was trying to help out someone else. As for why you would want it to stop saying link? Well, most of the time it doesn't matter, but there are many web pages, take a look at any wikipedia article, where every other word is a link, and it is quite distracting to read it with every third word being link. So, even though I might not want to turn it off all the time, it would be nice to turn it off some of the time. I do turn off the stating start and end list announcements as I find that not terribly useful most of the time. The fact that you can do it in JAWS 12, is great, and I will do that, but Wayne was working in JAWS 11 so I was going that route. Lastly, I am not even sure that suppressing JAWS from speaking the word link would prevent it from showing up in the cut and paste. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. 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