[jaws-uk] Re: office 2007
- From: "Belinda P" <bcpfizz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:14:21 +0100
I think we'll go back to Office 2003, luckily we got the PC from Dell and
they're happy to take Office 2007 back and supply Office 2003 instead.
Thanks for everyone's comments on this.
Belinda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:34 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: office 2007
> This is where I got in but you will need your Windows Live ID or will have
> to create it:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/office/default.mspx
> Regards.
>
> Tristram Llewellyn
> Sight and Sound Technology
> Technical Support
> www.sightandsound.co.uk
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mandy
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:28 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: office 2007
>
>
> What is the link?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:34 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: office 2007
>
>
> You can get it here in the UK entirely from a download, I remember having
> a
> slight struggle with the myself but it can be done, I am running one on
> demo
> now. You need a Windows Live ID like your hotmail address if you have
> one.
> I am not such a fan of the ribbon at the moment but like all things one
> could get used to it. Among sighted users it has got a lot of good press
> and other developers wanting to use it under license. I'm even less of a
> fan MS Word being the compulsory editor and viewer of messages, this
> seems
> to cause problems with reading HTML messages in particular. This will
> improve by the time most people migrate onto this Office platform.
>
> Regards.
>
> Tristram Llewellyn
> Sight and Sound Technology
> Technical Support
> www.sightandsound.co.uk
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mandy
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:22 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: office 2007
>
>
> Hi Brian I believe there is a demo of Office 2007 where do I find it as
> the only one I can find seems only able to be downloaded in America as
> the combo boxes only refer to America and American states.
>
> Mandy.
>
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> On Behalf Of Brian Hartgen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:50 PM
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: office 2007
>
>
> Hi Belinda
>
> A couple of months ago, I started testing JAWS with Office 2007 so as
> to
> provide detailed reports to Freedom Scientific about any potential
> problems. Last Friday however, I took the brave step and went over to
> working with Office 2007 full-time to process all my Email and
> undertake
> my word processing.
>
> First, don't be put off by the ribbon. Like anything, it just takes a
> while to get used to and you will find that a good number of your old
> keystrokes will work.
>
> The bad news is that you will need to upgrade to the very latest build
> of JAWS 8 to take advantage of Office 2007.
>
> Please let me know if you have questions.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> On Behalf Of Belinda P
> Sent: 09 May 2007 12:40
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: office 2007
>
> No one seems to have replied to this, which surprises me, is no one at
> all using Office 2007? We use Jaws version 6 and have just got a new PC
> with Windows XP Home on it instead of Vista, but unfortunately it has
> Office 2007. I've only had a very quick look at Word so far but don't
> like what I see at all. =20
>
> Firstly the new ribbon is going to be a bit of learning curve for most
> people - does anyone know of a way round this, a way of getting back to
> the old menu structure? =20
>
> Secondly, and more worryingly, it doesn't seem to work with Jaws 6. As
> I said, I've only had a quick look so far but two really basic things
> don't work: it doesn't read the text in Word, and it doesn't read out
> the menu options in Word. Does this mean the only option is to
> upgrade
> the version of Jaws? =20
>
> I'd be grateful for people's thoughts, thanks.
> Belinda
>
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Adrian Higginbotham=20
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 11:09 AM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] office 2007
>
>
> all: has anyone had a go with office 2007 particularly Outlook? I'm
> piloting it at work on a new machine and having trouble with outlook
> especially but haven't had much opportunity to investigate as yet so am
> unsure whether the issues are office related or machine set-up related.
> Word and access to the Ribbon seem ok although I haven't yet found all
> of the basic features but in outlook I don't hear message senders or
> subjects readout in message lists, and can only hear the message body
> read out if I open the message, not in the preview payne. Nor have I
> worked out how to switch on the folder treeview but suspect that one is
> much more me than anything else.
>
> so, my questions,
> are you using office 2007 successfully,
> are you using outlook 2007 successfully?
>
> if anyone can answer yes to either I might come back with some follow
> up questions but for now it would just be nice to know if anyone else
> has made it work.
>
> Adrian Higginbotham
>
>
> Accessibility content manager
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> British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
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