Re: Alternative Word-2003 menus for Word 2007
- From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 15:31:16 -0400
Because of the quirky line spacing defaults in Word 2007, the Letter Wizard
would certainly come in handy. In Word 2003 and earlier, line spacing is
defaulted to single spacing, so that whenever you hit Enter to skip to the
next line, you skip only one line. But in Word 2007, whenever you hit
Enter, you skip two lines by default. So when you type each line of a
return or delivery address in a letter, you get double spacing between each
line, which is definitely not what you want. The first time I composed a
letter with Word 2007, I was totally unaware of this quirk until a sighted
family member proofreading my letter pointed out to me that the addresses
were double spaced instead of single spaced as I had expected them to be.
Because when I proof read my letter with the JAWS Say All command,JAWS did
not announce the blank lines between each line in the addresses, so I had no
way of knowing . The Letter Wizard eliminates the need to worry about line
spacing because it automatically creates the correct spacing. And changing
the default line spacing in Word 2007 is not as simple as it could be. In
fact, my computer crashed twice when I tried to select Classic Word 2003
spacing to fix the problem. Using Word 2007 is just a lot of aggravation
and frustration.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Smart" <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: Alternative Word-2003 menus for Word 2007
As someone who has never used the magical letter wizard, what does it do
that is so time-saving? Whether I'm writing full block style, semiblock,
personal etc. it's a matter of do I hit tab or not at the start of
paragraphs, do I want things double- or single-spaced, and other simple
decisions. If the wizard is just a form that prompts you for address,
salutation etc. that sounds like it would only be useful if you had never
been told how a letter is formatted for a given situation.
Chris
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