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

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:

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 at

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.

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

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

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: 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

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: an Outlook question

2015-05-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I think it's meant to prevent viruses and such from being forwarded. My husband says the same thing to me. I sometimes, especially at work, will get prompted as to whether I want to include images or something like that when I forward, which I do for him to see it the same way. I was just in

RE: Problems Handling Microsoft Excel Attachments in Outlook 2013

2015-05-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
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 12, 2015 12:12 PM To: Steve

limits of Virtual View script?

2015-05-13 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi, I've barely used the Viertual View app. I just used it a moment ago and was delighted it solved an issue for me capturing some text from a dialog screen. I'm curious though... What is the limitations of this app? It's obviously not an OCR app. Can someone explain it in layman's terms

RE: switching documents in Word 2013

2015-05-19 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Yes, the Control F6 commands works and that keeps you just switching between open files within Word. Alt tab works too, but if you know you want to switch to another Word doc. Control F6 will probably get you there faster. -Original Message- From: Talk

RE: Attach zipped file to Outlook msg in windows 8.1

2015-06-05 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
My favorite way of attaching files in Outlook is to do the following: Put your cursor in the message body o the email message. Then, go to Windows Explorer and find the file or files you want. Click on them and copy them. Then go back to Outlook and hit Control V to paste them. They will

RE: It just stops talking

2015-06-05 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
At work, using Outlook 2010, windows 7 and WE 8.4, I sometimes have this happen. It seems to be less frequent for some reasons lately. What I see is that the spell checker window opens but nothing populates in it. That is where Outlook and WE both freeze and Outlook will only allow me to

RE: clicking on urls

2015-06-08 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Sometimes I find that hitting enter on the link won't work, but if I route the mouse pointer to the link and left click, it will open the link. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent:

RE: It just stops talking

2015-06-08 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'll try this, but usually I get the notice that A copy of Window Eyes ios already running. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Nick Sarames via Talk Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 6:08 PM To: Petro T.

RE: Virtual view

2015-06-03 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
It's Control alt V. Then you chose the window you want to virtualize. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Petro T. Giannakopoulos via Talk Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 9:53 AM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com

RE: dealing with airline websites with window eyes

2015-06-22 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I find that the date pickers are the most challenging on airline and hotel sites. Since I have a little vision, I can't fairly answer which sites work best, since I sometimes am able to leverage my bit of vision, but not always. I have used Orbitx for price shopping, but tend to go to the

RE: Desktop Question with Firefox

2015-06-22 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Mike, It looks like you can select to save page as from the File Menu and it will open a standard save dialog. If you can navigate to your desktop, or save the link in a folder then copy that to your desktop, you should be set to go. -Original Message- From: Talk

Refresh my memory on upgrade process

2015-06-25 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi, I'm about to upgrade my work laptop from WE 8.4 to WE 9.1. I have to get tech support's help to give me admin rights, so I want to refresh my memory on the best process for the upgrade. I'm doing this because a recent Windows Update or something has messed up something and a reinstall of

RE: word 2013 spell and gramar check

2015-06-24 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Once you get to the error, use the application key to pull down a list of options. Sometimes I still find I need to read the sentence or a few words before the error to decide which is the correction options. -Original Message- From: Talk

RE: Microsoft one note

2015-06-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm curious about this too. My coworkers rave about it, but my first glance at it leaves me with the impression that a lot of its value is in the ease of the way pages are presented visually. I haven't wanted to invest too much time in it yet, so would appreciate knowing if anyone has.

RE: outlook 2013 help needed

2015-06-16 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
The easiest way to create a rule is to find a message in your inbox like you want to go into a new folder. Then hit the application key to open the context menu. Near the bottom is an option for rules and if you right arrow to open that option, Outlook will suggest a few rule definitions for

RE: outlook 2013 questions

2015-06-17 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Agreed that the Control Y is the easiest way, but if you display the navigation pane as ON, you can use that Shift Tab navigation. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Long via Talk Sent: Wednesday, June

RE: best way to accomplish this macro?

2015-06-15 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 1:36 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: best way to accomplish this macro? I'm thinking I want to create a macro that will enable me to quickly apply a font color change to selected text. Usually what I'm

best way to accomplish this macro?

2015-06-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm thinking I want to create a macro that will enable me to quickly apply a font color change to selected text. Usually what I'm trying to do is to select all the text in an office product (be it Word, Excel or Outlook) and select black font to ensure that my font is a consistent color after

Outlook flagging question

2015-06-01 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi all, I moved to using Outlook 2010 last spring. Somewhere in the early fall, I noticed that there is a keystroke in Outlook that when you hit the Insert key, it flags whichever email you are on as a red flag. At first I didn't know what I was doing to trigger this, but, while searching

WE 9.1 and Outlook 2010 - dinging in Select Names dialog

2015-07-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi, I just upgraded to WE 9.1 and think this dinging started then. When I use Alt period to open the Select Names dialog to address an email, I'm hearing a dinging as I arrow up and down through the display options to match my search. Anyone else getting this and know why it's doing that? It

RE: Dashboards and WE

2015-07-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'll be curious if anyone knows of something different here. In a business context, it usually means a set of graphs or metrics that are regularly updated to show company, department team or individual progress at a glance. Our company uses several of these; I typically find them difficult to

RE: outlook jumping fields when opening message

2015-07-02 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm seeing this, too, and I don't think it happened when I was on WE 8.4 last week. For me, it seems that my focus is lost somewhere between the subject line and the body of the message. I do not virtualize messages by default, so I can see that the cursor is blinking at the top of the

RE: Accepting an invite using Outlook2013

2015-07-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
F you are in the inbox list of messages and you want to accept an invitation, you can hit the application key and chose accept. I do this is if I already know the meeting details. If I want to review the meeting time, place and so on before accepting, I open it and, as noted by another, use

Word 2010 - Using the search pane

2015-07-07 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I moved to Word 2010 well after many on this list, so I know this is a repeat question. I am not having consistent success with using the search navigation pane for jumping to desired text. I cannot seem to find instructions in the knowledge base, in the WE manual or in my how to book for

question on new browse mode

2015-07-07 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Hi, I just switched from WE 8.4 to WE 9.1 at work, so I'm really starting to notice the differences in how the browse modes function. I just listen to Marc's great webinars on complex webpages and learned some useful tips. I still have a couple questions 1) Checkboxes; It seems that,

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

Are you liking Windows 10?

2015-07-29 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I see a lot of talk of people moving up to Windows 10. Are you liking your decision to upgrade? For someone who doesn't particularly like change, are there any major changes I should be aware of before considering this - other than compatibility of my current software? Robin Van Lant | Sr.

Opinion on moving from paid version of WE to free version

2015-07-29 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
My last SMA is done, so I'm debating whether to buy a new one or move to the free version of WE to upgrade to WE 9.2. The quality of tech support was a big reason I chose Window Eyes originally and that is a big factor for me to consider in this switch, but I also want to know if others who

RE: up and down arrows in ms outlook 2010

2015-07-29 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm actually seeing some of this behavior in WE 9.1 that I installed a few weeks ago. I'll be writing an email in Outlook and go back to review it and it's not reading. I thought it was happening only when I used bold text, but that's not true. I composed this message fine. Oh, wait, now I

RE: Windows Explorer in Windows 7

2015-08-03 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
on folders, just files, so I still think the folder properties is what you need. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 3:49 PM To: Tom Fairhurst; Window-Eyes

RE: Windows Explorer in Windows 7

2015-08-03 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I'm on Windows 7 64-bit with WE 9.1. My options are set to show file size and no matter which view options I pick, it's not reading the size. I can see enough to see the file size is listed for files, but not for folders. Neither read when I arrow up and down. If you don't find an easy

RE: Outlook 2013 under Windows 7

2015-07-31 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I wonder if you have the right keystroke. When I press Control Shift question, all I heard is question too. What should you hear? -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Michael Massey via Talk Sent: Thursday,

RE: previous link

2015-08-05 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Brice, I'm going to try doug's recommendation since I, too, have seen this behavior since moving to IE 11. As another tip beyond the Shift F10 or cotext key option to open in new window, which I do use at work for a couple specific reasons, I also use the Visited link hotkey to at least

RE: {BULK} Can't change font properties office word 2013

2015-08-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
The other option I prefer to use in Word and Outlook 2010, and I hope would work in Word 2013 is to do a Control D, which opens a dialog box with all the font options. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Chip

RE: I want Opinions On New Lap Top

2015-08-06 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I have a newer Toshiba S75 that I got from Costco. I picked it out largely based on the keyboard. I wanted a separate number pad and so many of the keyboards I felt in various stores had all the keys squished together so that I couldn't quickly distinguish the arrow keys and function keys. I

RE: spelling email info in inbox

2015-08-14 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
A way I would do that is to arrow to the message I want, then hit the Insert numpad plus to route the mouse pointer to the message, then use numpad 6 to move through each character. However, in my experience, what shows in the inbox is only the name in most cases. It's much less common to

RE: unresponsive plugin

2015-08-14 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Thank you, Marc! I also get this. So glad to have a solution since my IT team here wasn't sure how to help. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Marc Solomon via Talk Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 2:51 PM

RE: how to turn off group by in contacts?

2015-08-12 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
From what I am seeing, the group by feature works when you have your contacts in list view, but not in Business Card view. AI Squared recommended the Business Card view on the Outlook webinar, so that's what I generally use unless I really need list view for some reason. If you are in list

RE: Word crashes when selecting single table cell with merged table cells

2015-07-27 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I've had a similar issue with tables in Outlook 2010. I think I was trying to select a table from within the table using up arrow and it caused Outlook to crash. No answers for you, but wanted to confirm I've had issues in Outlook, too, and have found my own workaround for what I was trying

RE: Changing sorting criteria for messages in Outlook

2015-07-27 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Yes. Go to the View ribbon using alt V, then tab or control tab until you hear Arrange by. Alt arrow down and tab around the options. By default Outlook sort by date with the most recent on top. If you want to reverse the current order so that, say, oldest messages is at the top of your

RE: todo list in outlook 2010

2015-07-21 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Dave, I haven't used it much, but here's what I can tell you. There are a few ways to get to the To Do list. The best two I have found are to use Control 4 to go directly to it or to pick it from the list when you use Control Y to see all folders. Once there, the only two Views that I have

RE: strange behavior with outlook and window eyes

2015-07-24 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
What are you viewing when you hear this message? Is it when you are opening the message? -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dennis via Talk Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 1:24 PM To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion

RE: updating Outlook apps

2015-07-23 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
issues still under we 9.1 windows 7 outlook 2007. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+jim=blindsea@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 5:06 PM To: David Loux; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: updating Outlook

RE: Project Management Applications

2015-07-15 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Marc, Project is certainly the powerhouse, but many of us in the practice use Excel. You don't have the ease of showing critical path and Gantt charts that you do in Project, but Excel is quite a good tool nonetheless. One reason many of us at my company use it is that it's easy to share

RE: accessibility of Survey Monkey

2015-07-13 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I have a survey monkiey account here at work. I have used it once to create a survey and found it very tedious. I think it creates accessible surveys, but I found the process of creating a survey difficult and ended up using my remaining vision a fair amount. I can certainly go test it again

RE: outlook message body displaying incorrectly.

2015-07-13 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
It actually sounds to me like your messages are not being virtualized. The toggle hotkey for this is alt shift v. Check to be sure you have the outlook enhance app to Virtualize messages and that you are not accidentally using this hotkey combo in the info bot turn it off. Messages that do

RE: accessibility of Survey Monkey

2015-07-13 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
I have never used it, but I think another survey tool out there is called PollMonkey. Might be worth trying that. In either case, you need to know if you can use the tool for free. My recollection is that the free survey tools are limited on how many survey responses you can collect. For

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

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

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

"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

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.

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

RE: 3 Window-Eyes Questions.

2015-07-09 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
You can also use the built in Control + Windows key + M combination to Mute Window Eyes. I'm excited to have just learned this one! It's part of the Windows Enhance app, so you have to be running that, but it's part of the default app package, so I'd imagine you have it running.

RE: 3 Window-Eyes Questions.

2015-07-09 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
, Robin via Talk Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 10:32 AM To: Georges Zeinoun; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: 3 Window-Eyes Questions. You can also use the built in Control + Windows key + M combination to Mute Window Eyes. I'm excited to have just learned this one! It's part of the Windows

RE: Reading the address bar using the advanced email app

2015-07-07 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Paulette, I think you are asking about the Outlook Enhance app? I'm also thinking you have message virtualization turned on so that when you open an outlook email. You can use browse mode commands to read the message text. I'm trying to understand what you mean by the address bar. Are you

RE: Word 2010 - Using the search pane

2015-07-08 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
, then F6 will do this. Also, the Word shortcut key to find the next occurrence in the forward direction in your document is Control-Alt-Y. 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

RE: sapi5 eloquence and sapi5 dec-talk

2015-07-09 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
And I find DecTalk Paul the easiest voice because it's what I've used for 15 years. Eloquence pronounces some words differently that confuse me. So funny how we all just get used to things. Glad there are options to suit various preferences. -Original Message- From: Talk

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

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

RE: Mouse keys are not working as they used to

2015-09-10 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
e > Window-Eyes mouse boundary to a setting that you normally don't use. > The hotkey to cycle among the options is Control-Shift-B. > Kind Regards, > Marc > > -Original Message- > From: Talk > [mailto:talk-bounces+msolomon=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] O

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:

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

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

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

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: 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: 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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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'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: 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

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

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

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

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

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