Thank you for the most helpful information. I was made curious by the
previous posts as to exactly what was power point, and its presentations.
It would be an interesting thing to learn. Should I wish to return to
school at some point.
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From: "Ann Byrne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: PowerPoint 2013 vs. PowerPoint 2010 with JAWS and Without
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 havenâ?Tt 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
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