[bksvol-discuss] Re: big help with word on or off list
- From: "groups Warford" <groups_warford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:54:38 -0500
Hi Lissi, Mica, Allison and to whomever else this might apply,
I've been feeling baffled all day by your superscript issue since I'm on
JAWS 9 and Word 2003 and although I've had it happen occasionally it isn't
happening any more often with JAWS 9. One possible answer is the
"AutoCorrect Options" within Word. Please try the following and see if it
makes any difference:
1) Type alt+t for the "Tools" menu.
2) Arrow down to the "AutoCorrect Options" and press <ENTER>.
3) The tabs you will be concerned with are "AutoCorrect" and "AutoFormat As
You Type". Press tab until you get to the list of tabs such as
"AutoCorrect". These tabs are a duel layer so you may have to use the Up
and Down Arrow to get to the appropriate tabs.
4) Under the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab press tab and you will be placed
in a list box where you can check and uncheck items. For example, one of
the options is "Ordinals (1st) With Superscript". This option is checked by
default so even if you had heard JAWS announce "Superscript" and you deleted
the word, 1st, and retyped it the "AutoFormat As You Type" would put the
Superscript back in.
5) After unchecking and/or checking appropriate options, press <space> on
the "Okay" button to leave the dialog box.
I hope this is the answer and it helps. I don't like feeling baffled all
day <smile>.
Take care!
Cindy 4
A smile is the same in any language.
--Author Unknown
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] big help with word on or off list
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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