Yes, it's a proper form of text formatting where Word puts extra visual
space between paragraphs, and a smaller space between lines within the
paragraph. It's defined as pts, which stands for points. In the paragraph
dialogue, you will see points above and points below. The number varies with
font choice. Note that in days of yore, people used to put two returns
between paragraphs to add that wanted blank white space. But that can end up
causing blank lines where you don't want them, as in at the top of a page.
So, the blank space you are seeing is created by Word, and Jaws would indeed
recognize a blank space if you were to press the return key multiple times.
Hope that helps.
Jean
-----Original Message-----
From: Annette Carr
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 6:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws not recognizing blank lines in Word
Hi Norma,
Do you know if this blank line that you are not detecting is only occurring
between paragraphs? If so, then there is a setting that is telling Word to
either automatically insert an extra blank line after a hard Return, or the
setting might have something to do with the height of that blank line
between paragraphs.
I can never remember where these changes reside, so you can start by looking
in places like the paragraph settings, or in the style settings.
Good Luck! These things drive me crazy!
Annette
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of The Iowa Gal
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 8:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws not recognizing blank lines in Word
Hi list,
I'm using Word 2010 with Jaws 16.0.4468. I had a sighted person proofread a
document and they are seeing blank lines in the document which I cannot
detect using Jaws. For example, with Jaws I read
This is line 5 of the document.
This is line 6 of the page.
So, of course, I assume there is no blank line between the 2 lines of text.
But the sighted person says there is a blank line there, that is what he
sees.
Forgive my frustration, but how in the hell am I supposed to create
documents like this? I hope this is just a setting I need to adjust, but it
seems so fundamental that a mere setting wouldn't cover something so
critical to composition.
I'm hoping someone can enlighten me. Meanwhile, I'm off for a mental health
break. Or breakdown, whatever comes first. <smile>
Thanks,
Norma
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