Hi Ed, Thanks so much! You saved me a lot of time combing through the archives.
You guys are great! Russell On 5/13/15, Ed Marquette via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > Russell: > I just reviewed Paul's very thorough tips on using track changes in Word. I > think I was in that thread with Paul, and I cannot think of a thing he left > out. > You should know that turning on the quick access keys with JAWS key plus z > is pretty much useless in large documents. So, don't rely on that. > Also, don't rely on JAWS to give you the colors of the added and deleted > text. In the end, that's not all that important because the colors depend > on everyone's computer. So a deletion that is in red on your computer may > be green on someone else's computer. > In the verbosity settings, turning on "count" is crucial. That way you'll > know if there has been a change in a line if you are reading by line. This > is not too reliable if you are jumping by paragraph. JAWS won't always tell > you when an entire paragraph has been deleted if you are jumping through a > document with control plus down arrow. > Paul is also right about sighted users having some of the same problems, > especially in identifying who made what changes. JAWS will actually > announce the names. Sighted users have to jump through way more hoops to > figure out who made what change -- particularly when there have been 4 or 5 > people editing a document. > Good luck. > Ps > As frustrating as JAWS is on track changes, the other screen readers either > don't attempt to follow track changes or do so crudely. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell > Solowoniuk via Jfw > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:53 PM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Cc: Russell Solowoniuk > Subject: Re: Track changes in Word 2007/2013 > > Hi Kimber, > > Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions… very helpful. You and > Paul suggest the same trick of using the Quick Access toolbar… a great idea. > > Take care, > > Russell >> On May 13, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Kimber Gardner via Jfw >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Track changes are, quite honestly, a pain in the butt with any version >> of jaws. It can be done, but you will need patience and perseverance. >> >> Now having said that, what I've done is place accept and reject >> changes on the quick access toolbar so I can use control key >> combinations to perform these functions. The whole operation is still >> a bit clunky, and there are times when you will need to use your jaws >> functions to list revisions and the like. But it can be done. >> >> Kimber >> >> On 5/12/15, Russell Solowoniuk via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> What is the most efficient way to use track changes in MS Word 2013 >>> or >>> 2007 using Jaws 16? It seems a little tedious to bring up a list of >>> revisions with shift + Insert + R and then work through all the >>> listed insertions and deletions one by one, especially in a long >>> document. Is there a way to accept or reject a change and then jump >>> directly to the next revision and so on without having to bring up the >>> list again? >>> >>> Any suggestions for using track changes more efficiently would be >>> greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks all. >>> >>> Russell >>> >>> -- >>> Russell Solowoniuk >>> tel: 473-5819 >>> e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jfw mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kimberly >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jfw mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Russell Solowoniuk tel: 473-5819 e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
