Hi David, In Microsoft Word, the program checks spelling and grammar as you write, and to a visual person, it looks like scribbled underlines.
In essence, when a person makes a spelling or grammar error during the composition of a document, Word visually underlines it with a coloured scribbly line underneath the word or phrase it thinks is misspelled or grammatically incorrect. These scribbled lines appear red for spelling mistakes, and green for grammatical errors. These lines are SmartTags, and when a sighted person right clicks on the line with the mouse button, it gives the person the opportunity to correct the error, without doing a full spelling and grammar check. It's quite handy, and if you have sounds installed, and the checkbox checked to show feedback with sound, you will actually hear the line being drawn. As I said, it's more of a sighted thing, however, I believe that there are keyboard shortcuts that allow a blind individual to use the SmartTag features also, I just can't remember what they are. When Jaws reads the document, it will announce SmartTags when reading, unless you set Jaws to ignore SmartTags. Victor P.S. I believe Jaws has information on SmartTags in their online help about Word, so you can read more on there. Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
