[jaws-uk] Re: Microsoft Word with Jaws
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 12:42:42 +0100
Hi Jamie,
No, it's definitely NOT a JAWS issue.
Your experience simply echoes mine, and JAWS has never seen
this 2.4hHz P4. Indeed only last night I was editing a 300
page table in Word 2003. I had to delete some columns, and
was measuring the time it took in tins of beer and
cigarettes.
The only way I know to speed things up, is to deactivate
some of Word's clever features, and especially the rulers.
Unfortunately that was not an option for me last night due
to the nature of the document.
Easiest way I have found to locate normal.dot (of which
there may be more than one) is to do a Search and delete
them there. Word will recreate the file when you next run
it.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamie
Cuthbertson
Sent: 04 September 2005 09:45
To: Jaws-UK
Subject: [jaws-uk] Microsoft Word with Jaws
Hi there,
Jaws 6.20, Windows XP Home, Microsoft Word 2003.
I don't know for sure, but this one is probably a MS Word
query rather than a Jaws query.
I am trying to edit a 200 page document and, in order to
speed things up, I wrote several macros so I could carry out
repetitive tasks quickly. That all worked fine but the
further through the document I went, the slower things got.
It's all been saved and the document seems fine, however,
when I try to move up or down a paragraph with CONTROL+PAGE
UP or PAGE DOWN, everything takes about 10 seconds to react.
Moving up and down with just the cursor keys works normally.
Also, if I want to check the font, again it takes ages to
react.
I've run the repair on Jaws and it made no difference. I've
tried cutting and pasting the whole document to another
blank document and no change. It appears that there is
something about this document now that doesn't like the
keystrokes mentioned.
If I create a completely new document and type in new text,
the keystrokes work fine!!
I think George mentioned something about deleting the
"Normal.dot" file and that Word creates a new one
automatically. Anyone any ideas of where the file is as
I've tried a search on the hard drive and can't find it?
Does anyone know of a way to set Word back to using default
keyboard assignments. I have a feeling that there is a
possibility that I have screwed up these for this document
having messed around with the macros?
Any ideas gratefully received.
Yours, slightly desperate,
Jamie
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