Hi, Jan, David and other group members;
My WE reads misspelled words weirdly, implying a spelling error in Word 2013
documents. If I delete the mistakenly spelled word, WE also announces that
annoying phrase Word puts on screen, which is exactly the same three word
phrase used after copying and pasting something new into your document. It does
that when duplicating documents as well. That phrase is; "action paste
alternatives."
Regarding Spell-checker in Outlook 2013, which is what I'm running, it
immediately starts speaking misspelled words the instant I hit the send
command. Ignore once is first, Ignore all is next, change is after that and add
to dictionary is last. I do that because it dislikes abbreviated words, such as
blind-philly-comp. Adding that to my dictionary fixes that. Also, many of my
story characters don't speak English with perfect grammar. Some drop their
[g's]. Others use plurals where singulars are the norm. I don't want to have to
spell several lines of dialogue for every page of a piece chapter, which may be
a dozen or more each week. Putting that unusual dialogue into my dictionary,
eliminates that problem. Take care.
Lillian
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[mailto:blind-philly-comp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Lattuca
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:17 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Re: Spell Checker in Word 2013 and 2016:
Identifying the Misspelled Word
Thanks for the heads-up, David. It sounds like the problem is both a Word and
a screen reader issue. Maybe it will improve eventually.
Jan
On 7/18/17, David Goldfield <dgoldfield1211@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
During our last phone meeting, a question came up regarding how toYou are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
cause NVDA to speak the misspelled word when using the spell checker
in Word 2013 and Word 2016. These newer versions of Word don't use the
older spell check dialog we were used to and getting the screen reader
to speak the misspelled word seemed much harder than it should have been.
With NVDA, the way to do this is fairly unintuitive and I wish we
could see some work, either by Microsoft or with NV Access, to make
this solution more intuitive. The keystroke, at least to get NVDA to
speak the word the first time, is insert+numpad 4. This moves the
review cursor to what is called the previous navigator object and the
word will be spoken. However, this works when you are focused on the
"ignore once" button, which is the first button which usually comes
into focus when you press f7. Once you press
insert+numpad 4, you must then press insert+numpad 5 to hear the word
repeated. What would be nice is if Microsoft could include a read-only
edit field containing the misspelled word but later versions of Word
do not include this feature.
With JAWS, pressing insert+f7 speaks the incorrect word, along with
the suggestions.
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