RE: Off topic, pdf documents, WE 9? shshsh, maybe the owners won't know!

2015-03-04 Thread via Talk
Just last month, I received an invoice from Fender instruments on pdf. I got stuck at the alert document being processed twice. On the second attempt, though, I decided to change the infer reading order setting in the combo box to, I think it was, top to bottom, left to right. When I pressed the

RE: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 because I still have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Smith, Veronica via Talk
Honestly, if I had been smart, I would of stayed with XP and WE 8.4. that, in my opinion, was the best set up and I hardly had a problem. Now, I have WE 9.0 and Office 2010 and a new computer and am so sorry I changed. Veronica -Original Message- From: Talk

RE: Off topic, pdf documents, WE 9? shshsh, maybe the owners won't know!

2015-03-04 Thread Steve Jacobson via Talk
Jo, The Adobe Reader won't do anything with scanned PDF documents. If a document is accessible, you can save the document to text, but this won't work on scanned documents. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:33:49 -0600, Jo Taliaferro via Talk wrote: Hi all, I have been

Re: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 becauseIstill have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Pamela Dominguez via Talk
I had a dos computer that I used for stuff until about six years ago. I gave it to somebody else who wanted it. Pam. -Original Message- From: Butch Bussen via Talk Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 1:42 PM To: net bat ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: trying to decide if I

Re: WE, win 8.1 and calculator

2015-03-04 Thread tchild via Talk
hi Jeff, I'm using a keyboard with anumlock key. Thanks Tony -Original Message- From: Jeff Weiss via Talk Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12:48 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: WE, win 8.1 and calculator I bought a Dell tower computer and got one of these keyboards

Re: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 becauseIstill have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Kim Lingo via Talk
Might depend on how old you are. If some one was eighteen and never experienced Apple 2E, they might think this was really fun. Kim Lingo - Original Message - From: Butch Bussen via Talk talk@lists.window-eyes.com To: net bat net...@comcast.net; Window-Eyes Discussion List

RE: This is actually pretty important, was Re: pdf documents, WE 9?

2015-03-04 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Hi, Well, I don't think that could be quite true, inasmuch as, in the majority of cases, closing Adobe Reader and reopening the document does the trick. Rather, it is more likely that the browse mode buffer is not engaged properly on initial open. Hth, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk

Re: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 becauseI still have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Ted Larson via Talk
Jim: Thanks for your reply. Regards: Ted Larson - Original Message - From: Jim Grimsby Jr. via Talk talk@lists.window-eyes.com To: 'Vaughan Dodd' vd...@xtra.co.nz; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' talk@lists.window-eyes.com Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 4:50 AM Subject: RE: trying to

Re: WE, win 8.1 and calculator

2015-03-04 Thread Jeff Weiss via Talk
I bought a Dell tower computer and got one of these keyboards without a numlock key. I called them and explained that visually impaired people, especially, need the numlock key so that we can switch back and forth as needed.Dell sent me a replacement keyboard for free. It has a numlock

Re: Off topic, pdf documents, WE 9? shshsh, maybe the owners won't know!

2015-03-04 Thread Loy via Talk
I have Abby FineReader and I can right click on a pdf file choose to convert the file to a word document. FineReader is a little expensive if you don't need it for other things.$129 at Amazon. OmniPage OCR software is a lot cheaper and probably would do the same. - Original Message -

RE: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 because I still have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Dave via Talk
Hello Veronica, You did make some serious Changes there! Going from XP to win 7, then from Word 2003 to 2010, and then Win eyes 9.0. I was forced to move to Word 2010 when it came out, due to my job, and I have hated it ever since. I still use it on my home systems, but, I am not nearly

RE: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 because I still have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Dale Alton via Talk
Ctrl+1 single space Ctrl+2 double spacing Ctrl+5 1.5 spacing hth Denver Dale -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+blinkydale=comcast@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 6:55 PM To: Smith, Veronica; Window-Eyes Discussion List

Re: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 because I still have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Dave via Talk
Hello Ted, No matter what version of Windows I was running, I would wait for Win Eyes 9 to clear up some of the Bugs it suffers from. I have two systems with Win XP, and I am sticking with 8.4. I have another system with Win 7, and there too, at least for now, am sticking with 8.4. maybe

RE: trying to decide if I should migrate to window-eyes 9 because I still have windows xp

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Grimsby Jr. via Talk
I would urge all users of office 2007 and later who don't like the ribbon to check out classic menus for office. This is a ribbon add on that gives you back your classic menu interface. While I have no problem with the ribbon I must confess that I don't understand the layout meaning why things