As for the ribbons. I jut imagine in my head a glorified multi paged dialogue 
box. I used to be able to get around office 2007 very quickly after I adopted 
that mentality, but that was over 4 years ago but when I used it last year to 
do some work for my school I still managed to get around it quickly using that 
mentality so I guess  it still will work.

Yeah I miss the menus to but I believe in the theory that we should role with 
the punches and that's exactly what I did and it works 90 percent.

Be blessed.
On Oct 6, 2012, at 5:20 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David
> 
> I will do some testing shortly under Window-Eyes and let you know.  But your 
> methods of listing, and of headers, are going to make my life easier.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> On 6 Oct 2012, at 13:15, "David Griffith" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gordon 
> 
> Did you get my previous tip about using asterix in lieu of a bullet  on the
> first line of a list to force  Word to insert actual bullets? I never use
> ribbons or even menus to insert bullets in Word.
> 
> In general I agree with you that the ribbon interface is extremely nasty for
> us and I am eternally grateful that apple show no sign yet of abandoning a
> menu interface.
> There is a virtual menu feature in jaws  which is supposed to rectify some
> of the problems encountered with ribbons.  This is an option to turn on in
> the start up wizard. I do not know if a similar feature exists in Window
> eyes.
> 
> 
> David Griffith
> 
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> Hi Mary
> 
> OK, to be honest, I would be interested to know how you navigate those
> ribbons at all.  I still find them very confusing and I'm really not looking
> forward to Windows 8 which, I am told, uses them in its base interface.
> 
> On 5 Oct 2012, at 20:41, Mary Stores <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gordon,
> 
> JAWS does announce the different bullet types that Word uses. Unfortunately,
> I cannot find a shortcut key to easily get to the bullets button. There is
> none announced by JAWS anyway. The option is in the Home ribbon. You can
> choose from filled round, hollow round, cross, diamond, filled square, and
> none (I might be missing one).
> 
> Whe reading the bullets in a document, JAWS announces most of the bullets
> correctly except for the hollow round bullet. That is read as an o.
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
> Quoting Gordon Smith <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hi Mary
>> 
>> I think you're notified instantly under Window-Eyes when something
>> becomes a heading.  But I will test that and let you know.  This is,
>> however, good news.  I now have sufficient information to make the
>> document on which I am working more presentable.  Incidentally, do
>> the "Bullet" characters, ( ? ) get verbalised under either Jaws or
>> Window-Eyes, and for that matter do they appear as bullet characters
>> under Windows and, therefore, in your Windows documents at all?  If
>> not, how does one go about creating bulleted lists under Microsoft
>> Word 2010?
>> 
>> Gordon
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