Hi, Pablo. I have Office 2010. There are three ways I work with or around the ribbons:
1. Use shortcuts wherever possible when I remember them. control-c for copy is an obvious one. There are many. If you don't already have a list of keyboard shortcuts, you can locate more than one with a Google search. 2. You may have noticed that as you tab through the ribbons, JAWS verbalizes individual letters at many functions. They tell you which letters to press in order to go directly to those functions in the future. I admit they can be a little misleading. Specifically, one sequence might begin "h," when it really means alt-h, followed by the non-alt letters it identifies. Still, with this limitation in mind, they are a help. 3. Explore the ribbons with the objective of figuring out how they're organized. The one that's best laid out in Word 2010 is the alt-f "file menu." After pressing alt-f, instead of beginning by tabbing, arrow down through what is a general list. Once you've absorbed the list, tab from any item that interests you for specifics. I maintain a Word document that I constantly update where I list functions and shortcuts, along with tricks of the trade. If I haven't yet memorized a shortcut, this document enables me to find it with a quick search. I hope this gives you a slightly more positive approach to the ribbons. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales via Jfw Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 12:18 PM To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Cc: Pablo Morales; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: keystrokes vs virtual ribbons Using the virtual ribbon, there is a way to know what are the keystrokes associated with each item in the ribbons? Use the ribbons helps a lot to understand the structure of the ribbons, with the virtual ribbon off, is time consuming and is very easy to get lost navigating with the tab key only. But with the virtual ribbons on, the keystrokes doesn't work, and sometimes I don't know what is worse, if the virtual ribbons on or off. But if I need to get to a place in the ribbon, I have no way to learn the keystrokes, only deactivating the virtual ribbons and pressing tab many many times, and probably getting lost. So I see both ways very inconvenient. Is there a way to get the keystrokes and at the same time keeping the logic structure of the ribbons,? I am trying to teach people to use MS word, and excel, but the ribbons is very hard to make them understand the structure of each ribbons, but the ribbon as unique tool using these programs is not going to be so efficient in the future either. So there is a way to get the keystrokes when we are navigating through the virtual ribbons, and like this once we know where and what is the structure of the ribbons, just use the keystrokes associated with each item on the ribbons? Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20151010/bfd8984a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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
