RE: OE spell check and Jaws problem
- From: "Chris Jenkins" <saveup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:40:31 -0500
Hello.
Don't forget if you are using Word as your e-mail editor you can press
"Alt+F7" and this keystroke will bring up your choices in a context menu.
Of course allowing you to just press escape out of the context menu and the
focus be on the misspelled word. This works with Microsoft Outlook. Your
mileage may vary if you are using Outlook express. This keystroke also
works from within Microsoft Word.
I hope this helps.
Chris.
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Cher Bosch
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:18 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
I think a lot of us have that same intermittent problem with OE. However,
this keystroke works even when the spell-check is not doing much else
correctly.
Cher
>>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/08/06 10:06 AM >>>
Oh. Well, as long as I've been a jaws user, I never knew you could get Jaws
to clear up the spell check screen or get it to review itself that way. By
the way, my problem, when it happens (and it doesn't happen every session)
isn't just that I can't get the misspelled word in its context. It starts
even before, with Jaws being unwilling to even say "word not found" and
spell out the mistake. See? It's that basic. When it's malfunctioning,
all I hear when the spell check finds a word it doesn't like, immediately,
is the first correction offered. No "word not found," plus the spelling of
it.
Sorry I didn't describe the problem clearly enough. But in any case, I'll
keep this key combo in mind and try it sometime. Thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cher Bosch <mailto:Cher.Bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
It's just a JAWS keystroke to re-read and spell the misspelled word and the
suggested correction. It won't read the word in context, but is helpful
when you can't quite catch or have forgotten what JAWS said.
Cher
>>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/08/06 8:42 AM >>>
Insert F7? Same key command we use for getting a list of active links on a
Web page? Interesting. You think that when you press this key combo when
in spell check on an email message, it somehow refreshes or clarifies Jaws's
view of the spell check dialogue? Sort of? I'll try it as soon as I have
an opportunity. Whatever made you think of this? Did you find it
recommended somewhere in some instructions, for instance? Or did you just
happen to press it by accident and find that it cleaned up the spell check
dialogue for Jaws? Or...?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cher Bosch <mailto:Cher.Bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
Have you used the Insert-F7 to at least get JAWS to re-read and re-spell the
original word and the suggested replacement? This helps me get by when OE
isn't providing enough info.
Cher
>>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/07/06 6:20 PM >>>
I'd just like to testify that, although I've had Jaws versions that didn't
handle the Spell Check dialogue and functions very well in OE, for the past
couple of versions it's been perfectly fine. This is just some kind of
recent glitch or corruption of some esoteric file deep in some program or
something. I guess I'd need an I T professional to make an educated guess.
We do not so badly on this list despite precious few of us being real
gearheads, let alone pros, but this is one of those things it probably won't
do much good just to speculate about.
Oh, well.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Leavens <mailto:dleavens@xxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
Funny, the word in context has never worked for me in Outlook Express and
neither does the spell checker drop me at the offending word when I drop out
of the spell checker as it does in Word or MS-Outlook. This through all
versions of jaws from 2.2 through 7. I don't yet have version 8.
So, is there something I need to do to make this work like it does in Word
and Outlook?
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada
DLeavens@xxxxxxx
Skype DaleLeavens
Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat.
----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Spratt <mailto:A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
Hi, Yardbird.
It sounds improbable, but have you not rebooted your PC during this
time? I find that spell-checker gets exhausted after prolonged use and stops
working properly, if at all. A reboot usually fixes the problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: Yardbird
For only what seems like a few weeks, spell check while I'm
composing email in OE composing email seems to have suffered a bit of a
breakdown. For some typos and misspellings, it still lets me "see" the
suspect word in context when I press the Jaws/Insert key plus C. But a good
deal of the time, now, to my considerable distress, if I can't recall from
the sound of the mistake what I meant to say and choose well from the list
of options for replacement, and press Insert C, all I hear is "Word not
found."
This isn't much help, of course, so I give the command to Ignore the
mistake and go on. After closing the spell checker when it's done as well as
it was able under the circumstances, I close it and review the entire
message, seeking out the remaining mistakes manually and correcting them
myself. This isn't nearly as much fun as having a fully functional spell
checker working for me. to put it nicely.
Any ideas? This is Jaws 7.0 and OE 6, and I haven't changed anything
in either of those two applications for ages. Maybe even forever.
Thanks..
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