I am using Windows 7, Word 2016 and JAWS 17.
I just went in to print an envelope and when I got to the Envelope/Label
window I noted that the return address was blank because I had just
installed a new hard drive and re-installed my Office 365.
So, I typed in my return address and while doing so I
I have JAWS 17 and Windows 7 and updated iTunes yesterday with no problems.
“If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life… That is a form of “insanity!”
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice
] Three Excel shortcut keys
another way, shift+space bar to select the row you're focused in, and btw,
control+spacebar to select the column you're focused in.
On 3/21/2016 1:28 PM, George Martinez CPA wrote:
> Ed,
> Try hitting ALT + H I in quick succession then the R. This is a
> ribbo
/2016 1:28 PM, George Martinez CPA wrote:
> Ed,
> Try hitting ALT + H I in quick succession then the R. This is a ribbon
> command that I have also placed in my QAT for convenience. I use it all
the
> time in 2016 and did so in 2013.
> I do not know of any command to highlight the
Hi Mike Et Al,
I am not sure what version of Excel Ed is using but your first answer is not
accurate for 2013 & 2016.
Mike-
To insert a new line into the open spreadsheet, position the PC cursor on
the line after where you want the new line to be inserted. Then press alt+I
and then r.
-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of George Martinez CPA
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 9:33 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Three Excel shortcut keys
1. Shortcut key to insert a line.
ALT + H,i,R
THERE ARE SEVERAL GOOD FUNCTIONS IN THE ALT + H,I AND IN ALT
function you want. this was a function in Excel 2003 and it carried over
into later versions, but don't know if it is mentioned or if Excel users
know about it. cool!
On 3/21/2016 10:33 AM, George Martinez CPA wrote:
> 1. Shortcut key to insert a line.
> ALT + H,i,R
> THERE ARE SEV
1. Shortcut key to insert a line.
ALT + H,i,R
THERE ARE SEVERAL GOOD FUNCTIONS IN THE ALT + H,I AND IN ALT + H,D
2. Is there a way to read numbers in a cell one number at a time with
the arrow key without doing the F2 key?
I ALWAYS USE F2
3. How to select a group of lines to
It has been way long since I worked with columnar data in Word but it seems
that I could use F6 to toggle between the columns. Page down might even work
to get to the second column.
If all else fails End Down to the bottom of the first column then arrow down
and it should wrap over to the top
I am using Notepad out of Windows 7 with Windows 7 and JAWS 17 daily.
Unless you are talking about the 3rd party Notepad for programmers I do not
understand?
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
Kimber,
Adding a little to what Teresa said see below.
There are many variations of this but here is one way.
1. Press ALT and then arrow to the right to Insert and press space bar.
2. Now TAB over until you hear Tables, it will be 3 or 4 TABS.
3. Press Space Bar and it brings you into a
Steve,
Take a look at Faxaway.
I pay about $15 a year & send and receive faxes via email
They charge me $1mo. And a tiny amount per fax.
George
.
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA,
Hi Alana,
I do not know all of the technical reasons why but I believe you will have a
lot of difficulty using JAWS 14 with Office 2016.
I have Windows 7 and had difficulty using JAWS 15 with Office 2013 until FS
made some serious updates.
Now with JAWS 17 I have some issues with 2016 but they are
It is likely that FS can add a video feature to JAWS however...
For the last 10-12 years I have used both a screen reader & screen enlarger.
In spite of what FS tells you they do not work & play well together.
When I first began I used Zoomtext with JAWS and they fought constantly. FS
tech
Jim,
I am not in Windows 10 but Windows 7 with JAWS 17 and Office 365.
I have experienced the 10 second or more silence in JAWS 17. I at first
assumed it was due to having both MAGic and JAWS in the same machine which,
of course, run perfectly together.
However, I am seeing some instances on
.com] On
Behalf Of George Martinez CPA
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 2:06 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Using GoToMeeting
Sounds like a plan.
My webinars are through WebEx which is a Citrix trade name and their techs
have remoted in and worked in my machine a co
Hi David,
I am in the process of using this online teaching tool by Cytrix. I am
taking webinars put on by Thompson Reuters.
I have just enough sight so that with MAGic I can navigate the page. While
I know that there is a Chat link that I have accessed with JAWS I know what
you mean about the
Sounds like a plan.
My webinars are through WebEx which is a Citrix trade name and their techs
have remoted in and worked in my machine a couple of times to resolve issues
like this.
It took them a while to understand about my lack of vision and it was a
little bit of a bear to get them connected
Not sure what you mean "ftp" file. FTP generally stands for File Transfer
Protocol which is a method to move a file from one computer to another.
I use FTP regularly to transfer files from another computer while I am
remotely connected to their computer.
George
If I continue to do the same
When you are in the form field
INS + CTRL + TAB
When prompted type your name for the field then Enter.
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ
I am using ABBYY Finereader 12 Pro and it does an almost perfect job of
converting PDF to Word, or Excel, or text.
I have just a little sight but I believe that with some experimenting it can
be used totally with the keyboard.
You may be able to get a trial version.
If I continue to do the
I am using JAWS 17 and recently upgraded my 365 from 2013 to 2016. It is
basically the same with a few issues & differences. No real problems.
With the last of my vision I also have MAGic 13 loaded and the two together
make for some unique issues that it is impossible to determine which might
be
David,
I would like to be notified and a tip on how to get to Tips & Tricks.
Thanks,
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
http://www.jaws-users.com/text/Windows/10/index.html
Currently it is the second item on the page.
_
"If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life. That is a form of "insanity!"
_
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th
Last week I was looking for settings to clearly tell me when a letter is
capitalized. In Outlook 2016 I typed INS + V and made some changes to
accomplish this.
However, now when I try to highlight multiple rows of text the highlight
flashes on the screen but does not remain and the text is not
Robin,
That is good news.
I "cheat" & use my little bit of vision with MAGic to cope with that function
right now but it is nice to know that Narrator will do the job if JAWS does not.
George
“If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life… That
with Microsoft's design not screen
reader functionality then?
As System Access performs flawlessly in this dialog currently. I'm just
curious then if it is a Microsoft short coming then why it is working better
in this instance than Jaws is.
Robin
-Original Message-
From: George Martinez CPA
Sent
Robyn,
I am using Win 7 Pro, with JAWS 17, and Office 2016.
I have that issue and also had the same in 2013.
It is just the way Bill & his boys made those fields.
The only way to correct is highlight & delete it all & retype or just start
again with the typo corrected FROWN
George
“If I
Hi Mitch,
I tried nee converter and it was not very accessible and free for one day.
So, I went back to Mr Google and found "Free M4a to MP3" by Maniac Tools.
Very easy to download and install. I had 2 M4a files in the first folder so I
highlited them both and it converted them very quickly in
There is another practical side to IE9. I was using it until about a year
ago & upgraded to IE11 when one day BofA rejected my login until I upgraded.
More & more web sites are doing that with HTML 5 in wider use.
I know for myself that JAWS 16 "works" with IE9 but for me the question is
where
Never seen such a thing.
Why not simply Reply & say "I received it?"
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice 602.368.8854 FAX
Just to be clear in my muddled brain, when you say "image" that is an image
of both data and programs and not just a backup of data?
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231
Where is "on here?" I need a URL for those tutorials by Jim.
Thanks,
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice
George,
Here you go:
http://tinyurl.com/ps3mz27
Take care.
Mike
- Original Message -
From: George Martinez CPA
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An audio tutorial on Google Chrome
Where is "on here?" I
JAWS key + space bar then type H for History
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice 602.368.8854 FAX 206.666.2589
Email
David,
Since your action was in the nature of what I would call an "object lesson"
why not fire a shot across the bow of your misbehaving Lister then if they
do not straighten up simply bar them from the list?
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
I am using Win 7 Pro with JAWS 17 and Office 365 2016.
I have some issues in both Outlook and Excel. A couple of my issues are due
to the fact that I am also using MAGic 13. In spite of what FS says MAGic
does not nicely play well with JAWS in all instances.
I have not experienced the "blank"
This is a great resource. It is very evident that Chrome developers are
making large effort to accommodate the visually impaired.
I really like IE but IE11 is very cranky and many sites on the web do not
play well with it.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am
Hello List,
Are any of you using The Square for processing credit card
payments/donations?
I am using Windows 7 Pro, JAWS 17 and MAGic.
I already have a couple of proven issues in Excel 2016 and on bank web site
where problems go away when I turn off MAGic & just use JAWS.
I am wondering if I am
2010.
Thanks George. Jim
-Original Message-
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of George Martinez CPA
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 12:40 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] I need a step by step guide on how to set
Hi Jim,
Is this feature of pinning folders to the QAT new in Windows 10 or has it
been there before and none of discovered it?
Very cool feature. I like using the QAT; very convenient.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is
Jim,
The below worked when I was using 2013 and it worked well; but I believe it
will work for you in 2010, give it a try.
George
Adding a New Contact Group (Formerly Distribution List)
Adding a contact group is very similar to adding a new contact. Here's how
to do that if you would like to try
I have been on Tandem sessions for hours.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice 602.368.8854 FAX 206.666.2589
Email
How do I report bugs in JAWS now that 17 is out of beta?
George
_
"If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life. That is a form of "insanity!"
_
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice
Using Windows 7, JAWS 17 beta and Excel 2016.
I do a lot of combining Sheets into one workbook. When I type H+O, R to
rename the sheet Excel is throwing up a "helpful" hint or selection and when
I continue to type as though I am typing the sheet name it errors out.
How do I shut off those helpful
Hi Justin,
Not sure if Win 10 makes any difference but when I used Outlook 13 which is
very much the same as 10 once I opened the email with attachments I would
SHIFT + Tab where JAWS 16 announced "Message" then I would CTRL + RIGHT
ARROW and that would put focus on the first attachment and JAWS
Yesterday, I was told by FS that if you have an Authorization Code for 16
AND an SMA for 17 the 16 code will work for the JAWS 17 beta.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
What is the e-mail to submit bugs in the JAWS 17 beta.
I have been having trouble with getting Help in Outlook 2016 by pressing F1.
My son came by after work tonight and he discovered that if he shut off JAWS
17 beta and my MAGic 13 the F1 key brings up Help pretty as you please.
FROWN
George
this link:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Forms/JAWSBetaReport
When the page loads press the Letter, H, to get to the form.
Take care.
Mike
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- Original Message -
From: George Martinez CPA
To: jaws-users-list@jaws
Final beta of JAWS 17 released this morning.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice 602.368.8854 FAX 206.666.2589
Email
What scripts for MS Office 2016 and where would I get them?
"• The scripts for Microsoft Office 2016 are now properly named so they load as
expected with JAWS 16."
George
“If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life… That is a form of
When I had Outlook Express 2003 and moved to Outlook 2013 those addresses
and folders moved over fine, not sure about the non Microsoft Outlook
Express that is out there now.
Yes, MS Accessibility can and will help with that transition.
If I continue to do the same things I have always done
Here are some great iTunes tips from Jim a while back that should help you.
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice
Jim, it appears that you have already had too much
Cofieieieieieieieieiefieieieieieieofieieieieieieieofieieieieieofieieieieieieieieoffee
GRIN
“If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life… That is a form of “insanity!”
George A Martinez CPA,
You had to manually upgrade it?
I was told that it was automatic when the new version came out and to get
the new copy on my computer I had to manually download it but if I used it
in the clouds it was automatically there after the new release.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have
Mike,
I really like my Outlook 2013 and it is very powerful for all my business
and personal needs.
I have suggested this before on other lists and received a tepid return,
possibly due to blind people being low on funds or having a "jumping over a
dollar to grab a penny" attitude but Dan Clark
e
desktop, and then select "Personalize".
Mike
mike@comcast.net
-Original Message-
From: George Martinez CPA
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 8:47 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Office 2016
You had to manually upgrade it?
I was told that i
If you have an SMA you might want to download the beta of JAWS 17 and even
then FS will have to catch up with some of the new tricks Microsoft put into
its latest suite.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of
Hi Mike,
I have Win 7 Pro and JAWS 16 and use Notepad.
Notepad uses arrow up & down and I use the keypad for navigation as well.
To highlight text I move to the left of the first letter and then hold down
SHIFT and arrow right to highlight the text or hit END to highlight to the
end of the line.
of text at a time but, I was hopeing there was
keystrokes that would select blocks / groups of text at 1 time like you can
do in Word. Thanks again.
Take care.
Mike
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- Original Message -
From: George Martinez CPA
To: jaws-users-list
If that works the way it seems it will be great when reviewing bank account
transactions online which I do a lot both in my personal and business
accounts.
I can hardly wait to give it a try but I am trying out QuickBooks 2016 with
the old 2015 JAWS scripts So, will wait for the full JAWS 17 to
In answer to your question of "how" you will have two choices:
1. Go on the website and download JAWS 17 and you will be allowed to
activate with your SMA or
2. Wait about 3-4 weeks and FS will send you JAWS 17 on a CD/DVD.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am
Does anyone know if the new online feature where JAWS 17 will read
everything on a line at one time, even where there different elements, will
work when reviewing bank account transactions online.
I was just out this morning looking over a month's transactions in a Chase
account and it was a
Hi Kimber,
I am using JAWS 16 with Outlook 2013 on Windows 7 Pro..
I receive attachments daily and what I do to access or print them is:
1. SHIFT TAB
2. CTRL + RIGHT ARROW to the first attachment
3. Hit your Applications key for printing or saving choices.
George
If I continue to do the same
You are going to have to use the JAWS cursor in there.
Good old Microsoft has made it so that that area does not read with JAWS.
In the FS Word training Dan Clark, ever the optimist, says, and we cannot
get JAWS to tell us what is in there, we are hoping Microsoft will fix that
soon.
George
Neil,
I just verified in my Windows 7, Word 2013, and JAWS 16 and indeed your
description is right on the money.
The trick is to adjust your fonts on the Delivery address while in Word
and the same for your return address the first time before copying into the
windows/labels window.
I just
Message-
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of George Martinez CPA
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 5:32 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Printing envelope, MS Word 2013
Neil,
I just verified in my Windows 7, Word 2013
,
I believe this is correct. I don't think that you can resize only one cell,
it is going to have to be the entire row or column. I don't recall ever
changing just one cell. Sorry if my answer was misleading.
Mike
mike@comcast.net
-Original Message-
From: George Martinez CPA
Sent
Hi Mike,
I did go to Home and then Shift tabbed 432 times and found Cells group.
However, I still cannot find anything that increases the height of a cell
without increasing the height of the entire row.
I looked in Excel help for 2013 and a search for cell height produced a
number of articles
Hi Tom,
To the best of my knowledge there is not a way to raise the height of a cell
without increasing the height of the row.
I did try to increase the Font to 84 points and it did so within that cell
and the font was still the same size as it was before. However, the row
height was increased
I have never liked Quicken and for the most part it is very cranky with
JAWS. With that said QuickBooks 14 may not be much better.
However, I am using QuickBooks 15 with JAWS 16 and the My Blind Spot scripts
and it works very nicely.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always
SEND YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT OPEN BOOK TO BLINDTECH.
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice 602.368.8854 FAX 206.666.2589
Email
Jim,
That is terrific information. I will add it to my collection of iTunes
keystrokes.
I went back in the FS archives and listened to Jonathan Mosen's 2 podcasts
on ITunes 11 then listened to his iTunes 12 update but did not find such
useful information in any of those.
Where does a guy go to
The August 6 copy of Flying Blind has a plethora of information from various
sources for those of you who have taken the immediate plunge into Windows 10
or are thinking of doing it soon.
SUBSCRIBE: Do you, a friend, or colleague wish to receive Flying Blind, LLC
Publications? If so, please use or
In Excel, to avoid trusting all attachments, I use ALT + F, I, E for each
document. This command also works in Word or as advised you can make it for
all or selective recipients.
George
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a
What about protection from Trojans and other Malware?
“If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life… That is a form of “insanity!”
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice 602.368.8854 FAX 206.666.2589
I used to use Word a lot with Tables producing footnotes for financial
reports but no longer do those type of reports.
I do not ever remember seeing a way to remove the table (borders) and
without removing the text. Besides if you did the text would become a
jumble without the table to hold the
I am using Excel 2013.
I am formatting and making pretty a budget proposal for a blind friend
using the little bit of vision I have.
The budget uses Columns A through G.
He wants to place a Budget Narrative at the bottom.
I have entered his narrative. If I manually spread it across columns A thru
I am using 2013 and JAWS 16 and JAWS is a little cranky in that function.
I have a Word document with names addresses that I use for envelopes
labels.
Highlight your name and address in a Word document then perform the steps he
outlined.
JAWS/Word will land you in the address box and it will not
Since Excel always reads the contents of a cell when arrowing down I assume
you want to set up your Excel schedule to read row titles and column titles
as you arrow around. Try the below. It takes a little practice to set up
your work sheet. Once you have figured it out you can save it that way
Do not know why that URL did not work but here is how I got there.
In Google type:
set up JAWS in Excel to read row and column titles
It comes up first in my search as an FS webinar.
George
-Original Message-
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf
You might want to go to FS website and listen to FSCAST 109 before you jump
into Windows 10.
-Original Message-
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Alan Robbins
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 5:25 AM
To: Jaws-Users-List
Subject: [JAWS-Users]
the question as I was
curious how folks that took the prerelease plunge made out
Al
-Original Message-
From: JAWS-Users-List
[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of
George Martinez CPA
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 10:03 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS
Where are you experiencing that?
I have tried it in QuickBooks and Excel and in Word and JAWS announces
June 28, 2015
as just that in all 3 cases.
George
-Original Message-
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Mario
Sent: Sunday, June 28,
, and has satisfied
my needs on many occasions.
Tim Ford
-Original Message-
From: George Martinez CPA
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 7:51 AM
To: JAWS USERS
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Accessible dictionary
Most dictionaries I have seen in the past all present words definitions in
graphic
-it? It is
labeled as Wiktionary and is for some reason at the very top of the
Research-It list under r. It seems a reasonably good one, and has satisfied
my needs on many occasions.
Tim Ford
-Original Message-
From: George Martinez CPA
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 7:51 AM
To: JAWS USERS
Subject
Most dictionaries I have seen in the past all present words definitions in
graphic format. Is there an accessible dictionary out there without having
to use the JAWS cursor?
I will purchase a membership to one if that is what it takes.
_
If I continue to do the same things I have
Well, a girl should say fossil rather than prehistoric.
50 years ago September I was learning how to use a key punch machine in college
on an IBM 1401! GRIN
“If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life… That is a form of “insanity!”
George A
After you type CTRL + P it is easier to SHIFT TAB about 3 times.
If I continue to do the same things I have always done and am believing for
change in my life
That is a form of insanity!
George A Martinez CPA, PC
12231 North 50th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85304-2215
Voice 602.368.8854 FAX
I was the same way when I transitioned to Office 2013 I also changed from XP to
Windows 7. For about 3 months I was one lost puppy.
Then I took the 3 FS webinars on Outlook, Excel, and Word and spent some
one-on-one time with a trainer.
I have always liked keystrokes all the way back to
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