[JAWSLite] Re: jaws 8 and word 2007.

Jean, I just saw this message and went looking trying to do what you suggested 
as well, but I can't find the application data file. I am using Windows XP 
home. Does it reside somewhere else?

Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jean Menzies 
To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 6:14 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: jaws 8 and word 2007.


Damien, 

Several things come to mind. Yeah, not enough memory might be it, or maybe you 
have too many processes running and system resources are low. 

Also, if you check your Word verbosity settings with insert-V, you might try 
turning off any feedback items you don't need and see if that helps. In the 
Jaws Help, it says -- Tip: Turn off all Word specific verbosity settings to 
make Word more responsive. 

It's also not uncommon for your normal.dot template to become corrupted. Among 
other things, this can cause Word to be sluggish. For Word 2003, go to C:\ 
documents and settings \ user name \ application data \ microsoft \ templats 
and rename your normal.dot file to normal.old Then reopen Word and Word will 
create a new fresh copy. If this fixes the problem, delete the normal.old file. 
If it doesn't and you want to return to using that file, delete the fresh 
normal.dot and rename the normal.old back to normal.dot. 

This file is easily corrupted after system crashes or Word crashes and sometime 
for reasons unbeknownst. Sorry, I don't know if this same directory path and 
process applies to Word 2007. But my bet is a corrupt normal.dot file. Is Worde 
also slow to open? 


Jean

  A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then 
wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Damien O'Connor 
  To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:27 AM
  Subject: [JAWSLite] jaws 8 and word 2007.


  Hello everyone.

  I'm using jaws 8 with word 2007 and have to wait a few secondes for jaws to 
respond when I press the arrow keys. What I mean is that when I'm scroling 
through a document line by line, I press the down arrow key and then have t 
wait a few seconds before jaws speaks the text on that line. Come to think of 
it, I also had this problem when I used word 2003. Does anyone know of a way to 
speed the jaws response time up?

  Damien O'Connor.

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