Are you at textbooks online tutorials? Or are they actual braille books?
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 6, 2016, at 7:43 PM, Ann Byrne <[email protected]> wrote: > > CathyAnne Murtha sells textbookss for both Powerpoint 2010 and 2013. > At 05:56 PM 2/6/2016, you wrote: >> A sighted friend has produced several large power point files in version >> 10. He says that version 13 does not display the files the same as version >> 10. Also, many of the techniques  he used in version 10 produce different >> results in version 13 and the other way round too. >> >> I read somewhere that there is supposed to be a setting in 13 to make it act >> like 10 but haven’t been able to find it. >> >> Tony >> >> >> From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 5:25 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: PowerPoint 2013 vs. PowerPoint 2010 with JAWS and Without >> >> >> Hello All, >> >> There seem to be a lot of heavy-duty MS-Office users here and I seem >> to recall conversations about PowerPoint. One of my current clients wants >> to be taught PowerPoint and I can see that this is going to be a challenge >> from a number of perspectives. I am out of practice with PowerPoint, but I >> do have PowerPoint 2010 and am practicing with it. What is abundantly clear >> after today's session, unless it's an accident of the template we chose, >> that the way PowerPoint up through 2010 worked and PowerPoint 2013 works >> have some significant differences in how "default slides" are presented. >> >> This particular client has residual vision that varies, and when >> things are good he can see white text on a black background pretty well if >> it's sufficiently large. Thus, for today's intro lesson, we created a >> presentation from a template called "Vapor Trail" in 2013. The slides are >> solid black background with some colored effects across the top of each >> slide. By the way, if anyone has Office 2013 and could send me an empty >> presentation using the Vapor Trail template I'd appreciate it. I'm having >> difficulty finding it anywhere among the templates in the 2010 selections. >> >> One major difference I found in how 2010 is working and 2013 is >> working (on his computer, anyway) is that new blank slides are just that, >> blank, when they used to be pre-formatted with a title box and a text box >> pre-set to contain a bullet list. In addition, in 2010 the text boxes never >> automatically stretched wider than the slide itself. If you typed something >> that would "run off the slide" PowerPoint simply moved it to the line below >> with the necessary indent. >> >> Some days this client prefers to work with ZoomText and many others >> it must be JAWS, so there are more complications. I am really wondering if >> the introduction of JAWS in the mix might cause some settings for PowerPoint >> 2013 to be set up via behind the scenes scripting that might eliminate the >> "expanding text box" problem, for instance. >> >> Anything that folks who've been there, done that with PowerPoint, >> particularly if you've transitioned from an earlier version to PowerPoint >> 2013 (and, probably 2016) I'd love to hear any insights you'd care to offer. >> >> Brian > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [email protected]. -=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View This Message (#38311): https://groups.io/g/jfw/message/38311 Mute This Thread: https://groups.io/mt/598791?uid=21656 Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/jfw/editsub?uid=21656 Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/jfw/leave/46502/1292106160/xyzzy Group Home: https://groups.io/g/jfw Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
