Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:20:38 -0800
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
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
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----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Spratt
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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