RE: Want Wineyes to speak each keystroke

2015-08-17 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Try seeing if this hotkey combination works for you. Press insert and the number 2 on the number row above the keyboard. Press that number 2 key repeatedly and listen to the options. You probably want Keyboard voice on with characters. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bou

Task Manager in Windows 8.1

2015-08-26 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I needed to use Task Manager to close a program on my Windows 8.1 laptop running WE 9.1. It's so different looking that in Windows 7. Seems like it's landing me on the processes section, but I can't really figure out how this is laid out now. Any quick tips on using task manager to end a prog

RE: Excel 2013, Completing cell editing with arrow keys behaves differently than using Enter or Tab key

2015-09-01 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Rick, I'm replicating your issue, but in Excel 2010. I followed your steps and put info in sells a1, b1, c1, a2, b2, and c2. If I just start typing in the cell, whether an empty sell or one that has text in it and I'm completely overriting the text, the right and down arrow keys move me to the

RE: Mouse keys are not working as they used to

2015-09-10 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
s they used to > > > Robin, > My first recommendation would be to try different Window-Eyes mouse > boundaries to see if that helps. Maybe you accidentally changed the > Window-Eyes mouse boundary to a setting that you normally don't use. > The hotkey to cycle among

RE: converting word docs to a pdf

2015-09-15 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I've used this Save As PDF option a lot and it works very well. It's also good that it makes it a readable PDF for other screen reader users. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of RajTribhuwan via Talk Sent: Tuesd

RE: Professional level robust Punctuation/grammar/proofing tools that work with Window-Eyes.

2015-09-17 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Well said, Tom! Punctuation is often a matter of formality in the writing. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Tom Kingston via Talk Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 9:41 AM To: Diana Kube; Window-Eyes Discus

RE: Word 2007 Question

2015-09-17 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Gil, I'm not sure if you can fully stop it, but you can reduce the list size to one. In Word 2010, the setting is in the Options dialog found on the File Menu. Then arrow down to the Advanced tab and tab through the options till you hear "Show this number of recent documents" and change the nu

RE: Netflix Accessibility Project or just plain Netflix Accessibility

2015-09-18 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I can give it a try over the weekend. So far, I only use Netflix on my iphone. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 2:29 PM To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Su

RE: WE and Electronic Time card data collection software?

2015-10-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I am using Kronos in my office. The main web application that most employees use here is completely inaccessible to me using WE. However, I do have a link to the HTML version of the web application which is fairly accessible. Unfortunately, every couple years I manage a set of trainees for a

RE: ABC Mouse?

2015-10-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi - did you get a reply on your ABC Mouse question? My kids preschool gave us log ins for ABC Mouse, but I have not yet tried it. I've heard other blind parents talk about the program, so I'm assuming it has some level of access, but I do not know which screen reader they are using. If you

RE: Hovering the Mouse

2015-10-09 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Nancy, I was hoping someone would have this really straight forward answer for you. I was trying to find a website with a mouse over link to practice on, but didn't see one. So, with my best recommendation to add to what others suggested, I add that if you tab to the mouse over link then route

RE: view for high volume mailing lists in outlook 2013

2015-10-19 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I am on a high volume list at home. I first have a rule that puts all the messages from that list into a folder. Then, I set the view of that folder to what Rod described (which I pasted again below). Finally, I do not want to have to down arrow through all the messages individually if I know

RE: Deactivating navigating by specific browse elements

2015-10-29 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Is there a difference to using F to navigate versus using tab? The major thing that I don't like about using tab in webpages now is that it also includes movement through toolbars, address bars, etc. Maybe F is what I should be using now, but does that skip anything that I'm getting in the pag

RE: office help

2015-10-30 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Are you saying you cannot use Office 2010 on Windows 10? I was just thinking of upgrading to Win 10, but don't really want to change Office licenses yet. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Chao via Talk

Quick question in IE navigation with Mouse with WE 9.2

2015-10-30 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I just got around to installing my WE 9.2 upgrade yesterday. On my work laptop, I am still using IE 8 until later in the year when I'll get IE 11. Having IE 8 was great in that I never lost mouse mavigation support, while the rest of you were using newer versions of IE. Now that I'm using WE 9

RE: questions about excel

2015-11-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Paul, I'm not aware of such a command, but I wanted you to know your message made it to the list. Let's see if anyone else has an idea. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Paul Tandy via Talk Sent: Saturday, Octo

RE: WE and duck duck go

2015-11-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Don, I know I have heard the message you are referencing, but I just tried two searches on Duck Duck Go and am not getting the message. If the text is appearing at the top of the page, I don't know how you'd get rid of it. Duck Duck Go's whole premise is that it's a search engine that doesn't

RE: how to get contacts to be accessible in outlook 2013

2015-11-10 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I haven't found the list view very easy to work with and it's very easy to delete information. However, if you use the business card view, you can arrow to the right through them or use first letter navigation to get to the first name that starts with that letter, then arrow to find the one you

RE: two possibly dumb questions

2015-11-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
It's really good to take note of direct page. The security settings on my work laptop will not allow me to use App Get, but I can go to the app central page directly in my Browser, find the app and download it from there. It's not a smooth, but at least I can get the job done. -Origin

RE: protected view

2015-11-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
And the other day I think I did a windows find command to search for Enable and clicked on that to enable editing of a document that was open on my screen. The button is somewhere in the middle of the lower portion of the ribbon when a document opens in protected view. -Original Messag

Adobe Reader XI question

2015-11-13 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi, I'm curious if there is a hotkey or something to quickly tell me which page I'm on and out of how many when reading a PDF file. To date, I'm using the moussed keys to go to the upper left then arrowing down until I hear something like 1 slash 2. The Control Shift S hotkey reads the lines a

"message web browser region" in Outlook 2010

2015-11-16 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
There is a quirk in my Outlook 2010. I thought I saw something in the WE 9.2 readme that this quirk that I first noticed in WE 9.1 was fixed in 9.2, but It's happening again and maybe more frequently. When arrowing through my inbox for certain messages WE will say 'message left paren web brows

Update FW: "message web browser region" in Outlook 2010

2015-11-16 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
On my email to the list below, I've noticed a couple other interesting patterns to my reported quirk. I just had an email in my inbox that I forwarded, but did not reply to. For this email, the quirk is not happening. So, it seems it only happens in my inbox if I reply to the email today. An

RE: New Window-Eyes Tutorial - Making a PDF Accessible withVirtualView and OCR

2015-11-17 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I also got that message on a pdf of a recruiting flyer. The flyer was created in Adobe, I think, and much of the text is readable, so I didn't' really need to use Virtual view, it was just the file I happened to grab to test virtual view. I have read several othr files with no issue. Aaron,

RE: OT Question about Word

2015-11-20 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Bob, I have made that mistake myself. You are likely accidentally hitting Alt S, F, which takes you to the References ribbon and enters a footnote. Word inserts a superscript footnote reference number at the point where you mistakenly hit that keystroke. If you hear it right away, press contro

RE: mail going out of focus with we 9.2 and thunderbird

2015-11-23 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm actually having similar sounding issues with Outlook and sometimes Word. I hoped WE 9.2 would improve it, but that hasn't happened. I'll need to test whether this is only on my work laptop or on my home one too. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=

RE: office tutorials?

2015-12-14 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
There are several webinars and quick videos on the GW site that I found helpful when first learning. I also found a few YouTube videos. I purchased a Word and Window Eyes tutorial from one of the vendors, which I found helpful for the first couple chapters, then it really got into using featu

RE: Weli.exe stopped working. What?

2015-12-15 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I used to have this issue on Win XP and I think on Win 7, to, but it went away after my upgrade to WE 9.1 or 9.2. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Steve Clower via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 9:21

RE: Adobe Flash Player always crashing every time I open Firefox

2015-12-18 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I had this happening and my IT guy here at work updated the Flash and it seemed to go away. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin.van.lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 8:32 AM To: Window-Eyes Disc

RE: WE9.3 Outlook 2010 list heading

2015-12-18 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
>From within Outlook, press Control alt H to open the mailbox header editor >dialog. You'll land in a listbox of all the header options. Arrow down till >you find subject and then tab twice. You'll land in a combo box that will >likely say "original". Set that to " None." Tab till you hear "sav

RE: Spacing in Word 7

2015-12-23 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Trish, It's actually probably the new default spacing they use that is separate from the line spacing you were trying to change with Alt 1. To make it look like the classic line spacing you are accustomed to, do the following: On the home ribbon, there is a button in the Quick Styles section.

RE: How do I change a view in Windows 8.1: RE: Changing the folder view in Windows 10 Was RE: Trying to find a Window-eyes setting

2015-12-24 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Curious to do this, too. I just hunted all over the Explorer window and can't find that option as it's existed before in Windows. I cannot re all if I found it 2 years ago when I first got this computer. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@list

RE: No attachments found again

2016-01-04 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I had issues with Outlook Enhance when I upgraded to WE 9.3 a week or two ago. Some of the features of Outlook Enhance worked, but others were not. It wasn't even showing up in my list of apps in the Window Eyes app menu, even though things like Insert C would pull up the Outlook Window Eyes c

RE: w-e 9.3

2016-01-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I am one of those who has experienced some issues since upgrading to WE 9.3 on Windows 7 at work. Just quirky things that don't happen consistently enough for me to articulate, but definitely more focus and freezing that I often resolve by just logging out of Windows and trying again. I don't

RE: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Fascinating. I'm not proficient enough of a Braille reader to use Braille displays in lieu of speech, but I am a complete proponent of the literacy Braille brings to people in lieu of seeing the letters. I cannot be profductive without Window-Eyes on my PC, but I still relish my ability to mak

RE: frustrations with we 9.3

2016-01-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm also on Windows 7 here at work and also have it where WE 9.3 doesn't fully function correctly upon initial start-up after logging in. It will say my keystrokes, but Windows M or D won't let me read icons and I find I can't get it to read everything as normal. I have gotten in the habit of

RE: Lastpass

2016-01-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I've heard good things about One Password being used on both IOS and on Windows computers with screen readers, but I don't know which screen reader. I heard a podcast on this from AppleVis, I think it was. The version for Windows costs money, whereas the IOS version is free. I'm just thinking

RE: frustrations with we 9.3

2016-01-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I find Windows D is a lot less reliable than windows m since upgrading to, I think it was, WE 9.1. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin.van.lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of net bat via Talk Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 11:02 AM To: Jeff Weiss; Win

MS Word - how do I know where I am on the page?

2016-01-15 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm working on a document for our company president where I need to have each of these award winner write-ups come out to around one half of a page in Word given a certain font size. Is there a way to have WE read the cursor position within Word, such as 5 inches from the top so I can put my cu

RE: converting audio cassettes to mp3

2016-02-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I used Audacity, which is a free download. I think I had a cable from an old desktop microphone or such that I plugged from my NLS tape recorder into the microphone jack on my computer, I figured out how to record using Audacity and did make successful conversions of my husband old tapes he ne

RE: headers in outlook 2010

2016-02-10 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
If you have message virtualization turned on, then you can navigate with "H" for headers within the email messages. While in your inbox, Alt Shift V will toggle virtualization on and off. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin.van.lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com]

RE: W E not finding attachments

2016-02-10 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
You can use Control Alt A to open a Window Eyes attachment dialog box. On the Outlook file menu, there is also a save all attachments option. If worse comes to worse, hit Control F to forward the message then tab to the attachment line below the subject line. There really are several ways to

RE: Photo in Email Message

2016-02-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
If you go to forward the message, see if you can tab to the attachments line just below the subject line. That's what I've done in similar cases. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin.van.lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of net bat via Talk Sent: Thursda

RE: Photo in Email Message

2016-02-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Oh, then hit the context key to find the copy or save as option. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 11:12 AM To: net bat; Window-Eyes Discussion List

"tiles" on web pages

2016-02-17 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
For those of you web design people, is there something important for Window Eyes users to know about tiles in web page design and how we interact with them? My company redesigned it's human resources homepage with tiles and last night I logged into my Bank of America account and think I heard W

RE: Screen capturing?

2016-02-29 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
The built in way to do this is to press Alt and Print Screen on your keyboard, which copies a picture of your screen to the clipboard. Then you go to an email or word document and hit Control V to paste that picture. In my experience, this only captures a screen shot of the active window thoug

RE: the outlook calendar

2016-03-07 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Veronica - I did this for my employees so long ago that I don't recall what it looks like, but I'll see if I can figure it out for you. Try using Insert Tab to pull up the links in the open email from your boss and see if that shows the link to you. -Original Message- From: Talk [mai

RE: outlook question

2016-03-07 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
If you turn off the speaking of smart tags in Word, that should help here in Outlook as Outlook uses Word as the default editor. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Long via Talk Sent: Thursday, March 03,

RE: the outlook calendar

2016-03-07 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
g request e-mail message opens automatically. The message requests the person to share his or her Calendar with you and also provides the option to share your default Calendar with him or her. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com]

RE: Outlook Attachments Hot Key

2016-03-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
It's Control Alt A you press to pull up the attachment dialog while a message is open. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Don Smith via Talk Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:39 AM To: 'Rod Hutton'; 'Window-Eyes D

Windows Media Player question

2016-03-14 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I have copied some old VHS movies onto my hard drive into MPG files. Running Windows 8.1 and Window Eyes 9.4, launching any of these movies will load them into Windows Media Player so my kids can watch these old m movies. Is there a way to use the keyboard to fast forward and rewind in the vid

RE: reading in browse mode

2016-03-29 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I have that sometimes in PDF files and figured it is something with the formatting from the author. Not sure though. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Carol and Roger via Talk Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016

RE: Window-Eyes and Excel

2016-04-08 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Vic, While not a fix for your mouse pointer navigation question, have you tried using Control Spacebar to select a column and shift spacebar to select a row? This is how I accomplish what you are doing. You can do this from whichever cell you are in within that row or column, so you don't have

RE: Printing pictures or images

2016-04-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Can you visually see that the coupon image is on your screen? I find that when I have message virtualization turned on, the images do not load in my messages. I have to turn off message virtualization to see pictures, so do check that. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces

RE: Word 2010 questions

2016-04-14 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I think what you are looking for is on the WE Control Panel onder Verbosity, Office, Word, Miscellaneous. There is a check box for speak styles, which I have unchecked. I don't hear that stuff you mentioned, so this might be it. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+ro

RE: How to copy large Blocks of Text?

2016-04-19 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
In Word, I typically use Shift and down arrow, selecting each line of text that I want to copy. Win Eyes will read each line as I select it. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Tuesday, April

RE: Copying large Blocks of Text

2016-04-19 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Dave, I tried someone else's suggestion of using F8. When I hit that, it says Extended Selection on. I can see that as I arrow down or page down, the text is being highlighted from wherever I started. I then his Control C and pasted it to another document. Maybe it was the test document I wa

RE: enabling message virtualization

2016-04-25 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Message virtualization puts an Outlook email message into a form like browse mode so that you can use all the browse mode first letter navigation and such. This is important for those of us who get emails with fancy formatting in them, especially tables. Facebook messages, for example come in a

WE saying some words differently in read to end versus word by word

2016-04-25 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
This is only a curiosity... I've noted a couple different instances lately where a word I'm reading will be pronounced differently if I have WE doing Read to end as opposed to reading by Word or line. The latest word today was "resume" in a document I was reading about Keyboard commands. In

for those on Windows 10

2016-04-25 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Two questions for those of you on Windows 10, 1.)Is the feel of Windows 10 more like Windows 8.1, Windows 7 or some completely new thing? I'm on Win 7 and work and Win 8.1 at home. 2.)Anyone using Quicken on Windows 10? If so, which version? I have an older version of Quicken (mayb

RE: WE saying some words differently in read to end versus word byword

2016-04-26 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
textual use is known in advance. So the same synth can be programmed to be phonetically perfect for each of the relatively small number of speech events that will occur. Regards, Tom On 4/25/2016 5:49 PM, Van Lant, Robin via Talk wrote: > This is only a curiosity... I've noted a coupl

RE: Problem with WE and Word 2010

2016-04-27 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Is this with all documents? Is it saying Protected View? Sorry, I didn't read the first thread on this. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Peterson via Talk Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:34 PM To

RE: looking for how to use outlook2010 with window-eyes in mp3 files

2016-05-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
There are a couple good webinars on the GW Micro support pages that I watched when I first moved to Outlook. You'll have to go back through the links to find them as they are further down on the page. Skip past the one on Outlook 2013 and move down to the one on using the Outlook Enhance App a

RE: looking for how to use outlook2010 with window-eyes in mp3 files

2016-05-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
There are also some quick videos on this page on very specific tasks in Outllok that answer common questions. http://www.gwmicro.com/Training/Tutorials/ -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Jim Ardin via Talk Se

RE: spell checker in outlook 2007

2016-05-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I cannot speak to why this occurred for you, as I've never had good luck with the spellcheck window. You are better served to use the alt semicolon and alt apostrophe spell check commands in Outlook just as you do in Word. These are a Window Eyes function and I find it much more useful. The r

RE: looking for mp3 tutorials on how to work with the Ribbons in office 2010 and later using any n all screenreaders

2016-05-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Jim, There is a short video clip on this page from AI Squared that shows you the basics. Move by heading on this page to hear the clip names. I think I also went to YouTube when I first moved to Office 2010 and searched for office Ribbon Window Eyes and got a few clips from another trainer out

Question for other Quicken users

2016-05-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi, I use Quicken for my personal use. I do not recall which version I'm on, but I'm thinking it's somewhere between Quicken 2011 and Quicken 2013. I'm slow to upgrade because I don't use all the online downloading functions and I am concerned about accessibility getting worse. The version I h

RE: Using the Window-Eyes Calendar with an IPhone

2016-05-04 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
If I understand you correctly, yes. The Window Eyes calendar is not really a calendar, but rather lives in Outlook and Window Eyes just pulls that information into a nice dialog box that is easy to navigate. At work, I use Outlook to manage my calendar and do use the Window Eyes calendar optio

RE: Forbes article on windows 7

2016-05-05 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Glad to hear I'm not the only one having a hard time reading this web page. I've tried it in Firefox and IE 11 with very little success. Next option is on my phone with Safari. What am I missing on how to navigate this page? -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_v

RE: internet explorer help needed

2016-05-23 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I think what you are actually hearing is that the favorites pane is open on the left. To check and remove it, go to the View menu and arrow down to the Explorer Bars menu option, which is second to the top on my menu. The first submenu option is Favorites. Hit enter on this to toggle it off.

RE: Frustration with email in Outlook

2016-05-31 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Karen, I am also using Outlook 2010. At work I, too, often want to save a message. If I am in the list of my messages, I arrow to the message I want to save, hit Control C to copy, then move to the folder on my computer where I want to save it. I then hit Control V to paste it. The message i

RE: conversation view in outlook 2016

2016-06-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm using it in Outlook 2010 with WE 9.4 and WE 9.3. Not sure if it's different in Outlook 2016. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of matthew dyer via Talk Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 12:12 PM To: Window-Eyes Di

Kronos Time system access

2016-06-24 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hoping those 1 or 2 of you out there using Kronos Time keeper at your company will see this. We've talked about access in the past to this time card system with WE. Until now, I've had access to a link into Kronos that provided an HTML based version of the time card. All the rest of my colleag

RE: Annoying Window Technical Service Calls from India or where ever

2016-06-27 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Our company's IT administrator even gets these calls on his cell phone while driving. It is all just a scam, nothing to do with your real computer -- unless you make a mistake and let them remotely connect. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin.van.lant=key@lis

RE: Kronos Time system access

2016-06-27 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
HTML access re-established. Hopefully this was just an oversight in the IT department and not something more systemic. Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD http://lras.home.sprynet.com -Original Message- From: Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 2:34 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussi

Reminder dialog box in Outlook 2010

2016-07-05 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm using WE 9.4 on Windows 7 with Outlook 2010. In Outlook, I regularly have the reminder window pop up to show a list of appointments and Tasks for which I asked Outlook to remind me. When the window pops up, focus is on the first reminder in the list, which is the most recently displayed re

minimum system requirements for WE 9.4

2016-07-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Frustratingly, my fairly new laptop has irrepairably died and I need to get a new one much sooner than expected. Since I didn't budget for a new one, I'm going low budget this time. I was trying to find the minimum system requiremetns for WE and wasn't finding it on the site. What do you all

RE: Printing MS Word Tables and Excel Workbooks

2016-07-18 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi Tom, Printing in Excel is similar to Word in that Control P will open the dialog. I admit that I do try to use some of my remaining vision and so may not have all the answers on how to know if your table will fit on a single page. This is probably my biggest concern as I like to work in Exce

RE: Trouble opening an attachment

2016-07-18 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Paulette, I also wonder if this is an attachment you must go retrieve somewhere on a server. That's how our company handle's secured attachments. You have go and validate who you are an then you can obtain the attachment. If this is being sent to you from someone in your company and you are o

RE: Window-Eyes and fractions

2016-07-21 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Thank you! I'm excited to try this modification to the character dictionary as I type all my recipes in Word and have been frustrated at how WE sometimes reads fractions and sometimes doesn't. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes

If my laptop has a touchscreen

2016-07-21 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi all, As I look at new laptop choices, the off the shelf ones I'm seeing at local stores that are in my desired price range and specs also have touchscreens. My recollection is that WE 9.4 does not yet have touch screen support, so my question is whether having a touch screen is problematic.

RE: how do I maximize my navigation pane inoutlook

2015-02-16 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Go to the View ribbon and tab over until you hear layout group Navigation pane. Hit alt down arrow to open the submenu then choose "normal". -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of john riehl via Talk Sen

RE: Outlook 2010, WE 8.4, Windows 7

2015-02-16 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Martha, I do not have a message in my folders right now that was sent to a group, so I cannot play with it. The closest I have is a group invitation that was just sent out. Here's a coupe things to note. When a group is listed in the to field, there is a small icon just to the left of the na

RE: Recommendations flor VPN software please?

2015-02-25 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm using Cisco AnyConnect at work. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rod Hutton via Talk Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 8:03 AM To: 'Vaughan Dodd'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Recommendation

slight synthesizer or something delay

2015-02-26 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
All, When a got my new home laptop a while ago, I noticed that it felt like there was the slightest lag of WE voicing things. I'm sitting here today working from home and have my work laptop next to my home laptop and just tried a test. I opened the WE control panel on both and arrowed down th

OT: headphone jack in laptops

2015-02-26 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
To those audio equipment gurus out on the list... I have a laptop at work and one at home. I have a pair of stereo earphones I use at work when taking notes in meetings. When I plug them into the jack on my HP laptop, I have to slightly pull them out to have the volume at normal levels. When

RE: synth suggestion

2015-02-26 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I also tried Neospeech Kate for a while, but went back to DecTalk because there are many words Kate pronounced differently. My recollection is that I was having a hard time distinguishing between when she said "did" and "didn't" (as in did not) -- pretty important distinction when reading stuff

RE: slight synthesizer or something delay

2015-02-26 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
7;t know how to guide you, but these certainly could have an effect, as I recall. Hth, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 5:38 PM To: Window-Eyes D

RE: Problem with Mailbox Editor in Outlook Enhance

2015-03-03 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I just played with this and figured this out. In my Mailbox Header Options menu, there is one called "Received Refer to Name". I had set that to None and I would still her Received before the date in the folder. Since that seemed like an odd name for the actual date received column, I decided

RE: PPSX files, should these work with Window-Eyes

2015-03-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I've definitely had this issue running WE 8.4. I'll be curious if anyone has a workaround. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Bishop via Talk Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:03 AM To: t...@window-eyes.c

Is PayPal site accessible?

2015-03-13 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Does PayPal work well with Window Eyes? Is there also an IOS app for it? I've never had an account, but wonder if I should. Someone responding to my Craig's List post today was shocked that I didn't have one already. Since I don't shop or sell on eBay, I guess I never saw the point. This

RE: Enlist assistance resolving a web site issue

2015-03-18 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Don, Not sure if you had another response on this. I'm frankly impressed at how far you got on this form. Maybe the issue is that I'm only on WE 8.4 here in my office and maybe this site would respond better with WE 9. What I see visually where you pick a date is a calendar view for March and

RE: outlook address book

2015-04-13 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Dave, I recall that one of the Outlook 2010 webinars on the AI webinar page covered this. I listened to it when I started using Outlook 2010 last summer. Basically, the recommended View setting is Business Card, which shows typically 3 contacts across and then as many rows as needed. You can p

RE: Excel; Unmerging One Cell

2015-04-20 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Go to the cell you want to unmerge. If you then hit Alt + O, then e, a dialog box will open up with tabs starting with Number format. Arrow to the next tab over, which is Alignment, and tab down to the Merge Cells options. Uncheck that box and you should be set to go. I'm sure there is a way

RE: more of the same issue with Outlook

2015-04-20 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
David, I'm having similar issues. Haven't made time to call tech support yet on it. Once I upgraded to WE 9 or 9.1 on my home PC running Outlook 2010, I lost the ability to virtualize my messages in Outlook. Since the majority of the messages I get are in HTML and tables, I need virtual view

RE: Workflow charting program

2015-05-08 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I would be thrilled to know if you hear of anything. I have tried Microsoft Visio here and have had no luck with it. I really don't know how such a program would ever be accessible, since it's so visual in nature. Process mapping uses shapes to depict things as well as many arrows. The best

RE: Problems Handling Microsoft Excel Attachments in Outlook 2013

2015-05-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
What is happening is that when you just use the arrow right key, Outlook for some reason selects the default action of opening the Excel attachment in a preview within the message, but that preview is not accessible. As suggested, I do the Shift Tab, then control + right arrow to move across th

RE: MS Word 2010

2015-05-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
It's possible someone pasted an image into the Word document. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Deborah Hill via Talk Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 6:03 PM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: MS Word 2010 Hi,

RE: outlook column mismatch

2015-05-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Just to be clear, for my forwarded icon, here are my settings: * Column Header name - set to "none" * Column value - left blank * Custom Value - forwarded -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave Bahr via Talk

RE: Problems Handling Microsoft Excel Attachments in Outlook 2013

2015-05-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
ll ray153...@gmail.com Skype: ray650315 Blog: farmers-boy.livejournal.com Twitter: @packerbackerray Facebook: www.facebook.com/packerbackerray -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+ray153056=gmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Tuesday, May

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