[jaws-uk] Re: Office 2007

Hi Tim,

 

Thankfully my work doesn't involve complex use of the Office 2007 suite,
I use Outlook, Excel and Word but only to a fairly standard level.

 

I'm afraid it's just a new learning process using arrow keys and space
bars etc and finding out where all those familiar and regular features
now lie.

 

Good luck,

 

Robin

 

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Hi All,

 

One of the machines I use has been upgraded to Office 2007.  I'm running
the latest version of JAWS 10, updated earlier this month, and I'm
really struggling with the new version of the office programs.  I'd be
interested to hear others' experiences with Office 2007, and any tips
and tricks people have come across to make life easier.

 

I have run through the Freedom Scientific Office 2007 training DAISY
book, and found this useful, and my main problems are as follows:

 

1. the controls on the Braille display seem to give a much more limited
picture of what is on the screen, e.g. in Calendar appointments and mail
messages its much more difficult to move from the message body to the
headers and vice versa.  Its possible that this is because the message
body and the headers aren't on the screen at the same time, though I'm
not sure about this.

 

2. The behaviour of JAWS in the ribbons/Tabs seems to be very
inconsistent.  The old familiar title bar and menu bar have been
replaced with the tabs and ribbons.  Tabs behave a bit like the tabs in
a multi-page dialogue, but using this analogy, you'd expect that if you
start tabbing from one of the tabs, you'd go around all the available
options associated with that particular tab, as you would in a dialogue.
However, repeated tabbing seems to move around all the options
associated with all the tabs on the upper ribbon.  This takes ages as
the individual groups of options are all expanded unless you navigate
using the shift-right arrow combination which is supposed to hop from
group to group, but fails if you land on a combo box.

 

I think a lot of my problems are going to be shared by anyone upgrading
from Office 2003 to 2007 be they sighted or screen reader user, but I
feel that I've regressed by several years in my ability to efficiently
use the Office suite of software.

 

Regards,

 

Tim

 

Tim Pennick
Senior Researcher
BT Innovate
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