Hi All, I recently installed Office 2007 and have found it will take a very long time to learn this one.
The interface is similar to Internet Explorer 7, utilizing tabs and the like to access menu settings and the usual bad boys, such as options and formatting, as well as other well known things like page setup aren't where they were before. In any case, learning the new keystrokes will take a very long learning curve. That, however, is not what I'm writing about today. What has happened is this... Once I installed the applications, I loaded Word 2007 and proceeded to look around at some of the features and settings and stuff. As you can imagine, I did an upgrade, so the settings were just used from the previous version of Word I had installed. Similar to the merge utility with Jaws, except this one was perfect in that it knew exactly how to set up the view and the options, and especially, it new that I wanted sounds turned on. My problem is the view of the document, as read by Jaws. For example, I open up a template I use called the fax cover page from Word. To be exact, it is called the professional fax cover page. One thing it utilizes that I like and helps me fill out the blanks are tables. The way I used to get around these tables was to hold down the control key, then tapping the down or up arrow to move through the table horizontally, either right or left, respectively. This is no longer the case. Now, when I hold down the control key and tap the up or down arrow, it moves and reads one row at a time, instead of one cell at a time. Granted, it still reads information from the left column on the row to the right, however, I no longer do it one cell at a time, as I said, it now flows one row at a time. This is very difficult as sometimes I use the same cover page, and just change the information to suit the person I'm sending it to. Suffice it to say, I can't seem to find how I can fix this. I don't even think Freedom Scientific used the control key as a navigation key to help with the arrow keys. All I've ever seen talked about are the insert or caps lock key to move through a document, but I digress. I am currently using Jaws 7.0, with XP home, as well as Office 2007 Enterprise edition. Does anyone have any ideas. I did try going to Freedom Scientifics web site to see if they had any technical bulletins in terms of proper view settings to use that would help to use Jaws more effectively, or even just some accessibility documentation between these two applications, but to no avail, and before anyone starts talking to me about FS not offering any support for Jaws 7 and Office 2007, don't even think about it. I know people who are still using 5.1 and even 4.51 with office 2003, so FS should have seen this coming, if not for their sake, then for their customer's. Not everyone can afford the latest software all at the same time, sometimes people have to prioritize and one takes precedence over the other. In any case, does anyone have any ideas if this is even fixable or not? Another example I can give you is this other document I have that came with my MP3 player. It is the manual, and it seems like Jaws is reading both sides of the book at once. For example, it will read the first line on page one, then move to the first line on page 2, kind of like the two pages are facing each other, but when I go to check out Words view settings, the page is laid out as normal. Maybe someone can help me? Victor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ Address to contact the management team: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
