[bksvol-discuss] big help with word on or off list
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:58:11 -0500
Dear Booksharian Friends,
After validating over 250 books reading word by word over the past 2 and a
half years, I'm still befuddled by my computer and need serious help with
new problems that are cropping up for no reason I can understand.
I'd be so grateful if anyone can help me on or off list! These problems are
making me even slower than I already am because I read each book through and
provide carefully written and proofed synopses.
Most of these difficulties started after I loaded JAWS 9.0 which has made
many improvements.
I'm also using word 2003 and maybe the books that are difficult for me have
been edited in word 2007. I have written to for of the people whose scans
I've worked on lately to ask if they use word 2007. One of then has already
answered to say she isn't using Word 2007.
Here are some examples of the problems I'm having .
1. Most of the time I make individual corrections by backspacing to delete
and writing in the correction. When I backspace, for the past month or so,
I'm hearing jaws 9 say nonbreaking space or hyphen. These nonbreaking things
take up the space of a character. When I delete them with the backspace and
space again or put in my own hyphen, jaws says the normal space or hyphen.
No more nonbreaking. How are nonbreaking spaces etc different from
characters that just say their name like space?
2. In one part of book I'm validating now, when I try to insert 3 spaces at
the beginning of paragraphs, a useless gesture I know because Bookshare
eliminates them, but I can't help myself if they are indented in the print
copy, a blank line is inserted, but I'm unable to place spaces before the
first word of the paragraph.
3. As I proofread, I often hear jaws say end subscript or superscript. I've
tried highlighting the document and making sure sub and super script are
unchecked, but they remain. The print in these sub and superscript words
doesn't look any different from the print before and after it as far as I
can tell. Sometimes I can make the super and sub scripts disappear by
backspacing over them and writing in the text again, but this doesn't always
work. This is happening with scans I've received from submittors and scans
I've done myself. In the scan I've done, I hear them as I proofread. I think
the BRF ignores super and sub scripts even when we need them to indicate
notes, etc, but I don't know what happens to them in daisy files.
4. I'm back to having that character replacing problem I had before and have
forgotten how to correct it. I'm in some kind of character replace setting
where the letter I type over disappears. For example, if I write step
instead of stop and put my cursor over p and backspace to erase e and then
type in o, I get sto because the p has disappeared. If I place the cursor on
the space after sto and type in the p, I get stop, but the space has gone.
I'll appreciate any help I can get with these frustrating computer
misbehaviors. Or, I admit, they could be my own misbehaviors because I still
don't know enough about how my programs work.
airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Always with love
Lissi
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