RE: update settings?

2016-06-13 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Hi Don, The following passage from the manual explains what the Update outdated button in the Factory Settings dialog in the WE control panel does: D = Update Outdated - Button When selected, this button will cause Window-Eyes to determine which installed set files are out of date and

update settings?

2016-06-13 Thread Don S via Talk
I noticed in the we control panel, there is a choice to update outdated settings. Should I do this? I am running windows 10, and we 9.4 I did notice in the factory settings some programmes seemed to be out of date. Windows 10 is running niceley and I do not want to screw anything

RE: Just info re windows 10

2016-06-13 Thread Charles Short via Talk
Hello Mr. Smith, Charlie here, another Window-Eyes user, do you have the proper setfiles installed for office? Window-Eyes won't work very well unless you have the proper set files installed. What version of office are you running? ...2007, '10, '13, or '16? Charlie Short -Original

RE: Word 2007 question

2016-06-13 Thread Marc Solomon via Talk
I am not aware of any keyboard shortcuts in Word that allow you to navigate to the next or previous column. Window-Eyes does have a next line/previous line hotkey that respects columns. So, if you are reading a multi-column document by line, you should use Alt-Comma and Alt-Period instead of Up

RE: Word 2007 question

2016-06-13 Thread Marc Solomon via Talk
To add to Rod's suggestion, here is a knowledge base article with instructions on exiting protected mode and disabling this feature permanently: www.gwmicro.com/kb2049. Please note that I don't personally recommend dialing this feature, so do so at your own risk. Best, Marc Sent with

RE: Word 2007 question

2016-06-13 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Hi David, My guess is your document, as it came from the web, has been blocked from full editing. If you open its properties fromits parent folder, in the General tab you should be able to use the mouse pointer to click Unblock to release the file and then click Ok. This should enable full

Word 2007 question

2016-06-13 Thread David via Talk
Running Office 2007, under Win7 64. Latest WE. Whenever I open a document in MSWord, it opens in what is reported as Preview Mode. This causes the speech to only read what is in one of the columns on the page, for instance in a received and scanned letter, you may not get much more than

Just info re windows 10

2016-06-13 Thread Don Smith via Talk
Hello: Just letting folks know re my jurney to windows 10. I was running windows 7 and we 9.4 and was reluctant to update to windows 10. So my grandson came and I said let's do it. I am now running windows 10 and quite pleased. Did the normal update, then after instlling, I

RE: Menus

2016-06-13 Thread Rebecca Lineberger via Talk
I have Word 2010, Windows 10 and Window-Eyes 9.4. I can press alt for the home tab and then tab to font. I can then arrow down through a list of fonts, or I can tab to size, and again, arrow through a list of sizes. I can also just type what I want in the edit boxes. Instead of using the menu,

Re: Menus

2016-06-13 Thread Jim via Talk
Naomi, if you are using Office 2007, then you only need to press the 'context menu key'. Then you simply arrow through till you get to 'fonts'. When I pressed enter on fonts, I could here all my choices. I just tried this and all worked fine. I am using W.E.9.4 on a Windows 10 system.

RE: Menus

2016-06-13 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
After doing the upgrade to win10 make sure you install 9.4 over itself and then go to apps/diagnostics/repair windows 10 display driver and see if that helps. Chris Ai Squared Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com -Original

Re: a very strange thunderbird problem

2016-06-13 Thread Nick Sarames via Talk
Probably not relevant, but how are you deleting the trash messages? Are you going through your context menu? On 6/13/2016 4:44 AM, Jed Barton via Talk wrote: Hey guys, OK i have never gotten this message before. I just tried to delete about 200 messages. Thunderbird tells me that trash is

RE: Menus

2016-06-13 Thread Marc Solomon via Talk
Regretfully, I don't have this setup available to test. But, you should definitely check to make sure that the correct Office set files are installed and loaded when using Word (e.g. Office 2010). Maybe others on this list are using Word 2010 on Windows 10 and can let you know if they are

Re: Menus

2016-06-13 Thread Naomi Knudsen via Talk
I am using Office 2010, Windows10 and WE 9.4. With Windows7 in a Word document, I could press the alt key then tab across to “font" and "font size”. From either of those tabs, I could arrow up and down to choose a font or a font size. Now, after upgrading to Windows10 and WE 9.4, when I

Re: a very strange thunderbird problem

2016-06-13 Thread Singing Sparrow via Talk
you might want to increase your space that thunderbird uses go to. alt t for tools o for options and on the advanced section you need to choose network and disc space tab until you hear the amount of disc space and choose how much disc space you want to allow thunderbird to use. also you might

Re: Quick Question

2016-06-13 Thread Amanda Lee via Talk
Always look at the end of a message for list-related links such as archives can be found as follows: http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com - Original Message - From: "Kevin Huber via Talk" To: "Tom Fairhurst" ;

Re: Quick Question

2016-06-13 Thread Kevin Huber via Talk
HI Tom: I think that there is a list archive, but I have never used it so I don't know exactly where it is. Kevin Huber On 6/10/16, Tom Fairhurst via Talk wrote: > Is there still a way to view and search through the previous posts of the > list? I tried recently and

a very strange thunderbird problem

2016-06-13 Thread Jed Barton via Talk
Hey guys, OK i have never gotten this message before. I just tried to delete about 200 messages. Thunderbird tells me that trash is full and can't hold any more messages, it tells me the folder is full. So what do i do, i deleted about a thousand messages, and it still tells me it's full.