Word XP and JFW 5 work fine for me with as much of that stuff disabled as possible - ruler, markup, task pane, etc. As far as I know, all you want checked on the View menu is "normal", and Zoom set to 91 or 93%, I forget which value right off the top of my head. Chris At 10:12 PM 6/19/2004, you wrote: >Hello, > >There's really no reason for a blind person to have the ruler visible. You >can't use it to measure anyway and it won't do anything except make it >harder to read certain documents. I'd un-check this. > >-----Original Message----- >From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of >ptusing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: June 19, 2004 04:38 PM >To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Anyone having good luck with Jaws and Office 2003? > >Hi, >Asking again about Word X P, under the view, should both "ruler" and >" mark up" be checked? > >Here is a portion of what I saw posted in March on this list per the >"ruler. In each of 2 messages, one was told to enable it. > >""". Open the view menu (ALT-V) >.. Cursor down to ruler. If this option is not checked, press ENTER to check >it. This option should be enabled." > > >-- >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > >If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the >way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the >list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >-- >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > >If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or >the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather >contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx