You can use Office 2007 fine with Jaws 11. The ribbon interface is a bit of
a learning curve, remembering the hotkeys for everything is helpful. With
Jaws 12, they have a virtual ribbon feature which makes Office 2007 a lot
less taxing.
Every copy of Win 7 now has Office 2010 on it. Stephen Greeley of Freedom
Scientific posted an explanation on this list as to why the basic version of
Office 2010, which runs in the cloud server, doesn't work with Jaws. He
also posted the work-around if you want to run Office 2010, but since you
have MsOffice 2007, that probably won't be of importance to you.
It turns out that Microsoft has 2 versions of their Office 2010 trial
software. One version is a full stand-alone version and the other
version is a virtualized Click and Run version which runs on remote
servers.
When you are running the virtualized version JAWS is unable to load the
JAWS settings for the Office apps because Microsoft is not reporting the
correct executable to JAWS and part of Office is actually running on a
remote server.
However there is a solution.
You can find out more about this issue from the following link.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/click-to-run-switch-to-usin
g-a-full-office-edition-HA101850538.aspx?queryid=1824aef35e174fd4adb8a2a
398b1170f&respos=2
I'll give you the steps for downloading the full non-Click and Run
version which will work just fine with JAWS.
The issue is that when you download the Microsoft Office 2010
Home/Student Trial Edition you initially have the option to install the
Run now Click and run version. This version downloads a small installer
which sets up a virtual environment and the actual Office runs on a
remote machine from a Microsoft server. This version of the
Home/Student Trial Edition cannot be used with JAWS as JAWS has no way
to associate the correct JAWS settings with the various Office apps.
For example if you start Excel and do JAWSKey+q JAWS will report that
the default settings are loaded. The application currently being used
is excel.exe. The default settings are loaded instead of the Excel
2010 settings because Excel is actually being run by the virtual host
CVH.exe and so Office is not reporting to JAWS the correct executable
name.
If you start Microsoft Word 2010 Home/Student Trial and do a JAWSKey+q
then JAWS will report that Microsoft 2007 settings are loaded. Again
Office is not reporting the application information in such a way that
JAWS can correctly load the JAWS settings for Microsoft Word 2010. The
same is true for PowerPoint 2010Home/Student Edition Click and Run
version. .
The solution is to uninstall the Click and Run version of Microsoft
Home/Student edition 2010 and instead download the full stand-alone
version of the trial edition.
Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
Steve
Lansing, MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "susan wojtecki" <susan.wojte...@gmail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] questions about JAWS and Windows 7
Steve,
What do you mean by the basic office program that you get with Windows?
What exactly does it include? i assume this is another of Microsoft's
efforts to help us do our computing tasks well? Anyway, I'm not sure what
George meant about Office 2007 being buggy with JAWS 11 but imagine it has
to do with the ribbon interface, which hopefully JAWS 12 will make easier.
My husband is already using Office 2007 so I will hopefully be able to
install a copy on his license. I feel i'm going to have a lot to learn at
one time and it's hard to anticipate how difficult it will be from other
people's reports of problems. Oh well, one day at a time I guess. I've
been anticipating this transition for about a year and have finally
decided to take the plunge now that I have the money saved rather than
wait for this PC to die completely.
Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <k...@sbcglobal.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] questions about JAWS and Windows 7
Aaaaah. Don't believe everything you read.
Office 2007 works fine with either Jaws 11 or 12 on a Win 7 machine. The
Office 2010 programs that you install also should work, but the basic
version of Office 2010 that you get with every Win 7 pc won't work very
well because it is an ad-based free version that uses a web browser, so
Jaws can't script it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorge Paez" <computertechjorgep...@gmail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] questions about JAWS and Windows 7
Office 2010.
20007 I found a bit buggy with JFW 11.
On May 19, 2011, at 7:29 PM, susan wojtecki wrote:
Hi everyone, Sorry I was not more precise with the subject line.
I have a couple of miscellaneous questions regarding migrating to a new
machine with Windows 7. Firstly, I am jumping from JAWS 8.0 to 12.0 and
assume that I will need to do the authorization prior to a clean
install, right? I will not have access to the classic startup or
whatever it's called since I am only getting the Home premium version,
but are there any configuration changes I should make so that JAWS and
Windows will play well together? Also, does the Windows setup include
some version of IE or do I have to get this elsewhere, and if so what
steps are involved? I also need to decide whether to go with internet
Explorer 8 or 9 and office 2007 or 2010 and would like opinions on
which email clients people favor, keeping in mind that I'm used to
Outlook Express and have had no real chance to work with Windows Mail
or Thunderbird and am somewhat leaning away from Outlook. I think those
are all the questions for now, but there may be a few others before I'm
done, smile. Many thanks for all assistance.
Susan
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