You probably have a program group for Office 2013 branching off your start menu (sorry I have no direct experience with Win 8). You can either create an Office shortcut for your desktop, or a Word shortcut for your desktop. It may not sound like much, but it'll save you time and keystrokes in the long run.
Ted -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of dacia.l...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:54 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] questions about Word 2013 Hi, How do you start the desktop version of Word? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 17, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Michael Boyd <mike....@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the File tab, arrow down to options, and select General. Tab on down until > you find Show the start screen when this program opens, and uncheck this box. > Now select OK and now the back stage view will not come up when you open > Word, just a blank document. > > As for more blind friendly versions of Word, I know that the web app is not > very accessible, but the desktop versions should be equally accessible. > > On saving, I, again, open the file tab, and arrow to Save to save changes to > a previously saved document. Or, to save a new document and assign it a name, > press enter on the Save As option, and it will say saving features, go down > to computer, and you will get an edit field to type in the name that you want > to give to the document. Then, simply tab down to the Save button and press > enter. If you do not want to save the document to the default folder, usually > the Documents folder, then in the edit field, type in the path to where you > want the document saved, such as: c:\archives\document name. > > Mike > mike....@comcast.net > > sss > > -----Original Message----- From: Dacia Cole > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 6:18 PM > To: jaws-users-list > Subject: [JAWS-Users] questions about Word 2013 > > Hi, > > I have several questions about Word 2013. I am using windows 8.1 and > JAWS 16. How do I set it so it will open a document without having me > hit enter on the backstage view when I just want a new document > opened? Also, it says is the word app is there a more blind friendly > version? Also, having trouble saving as, it brings up a save > features dialogue box and am not sure what to do. > > thanks, > > Dacia > > 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/
