Re: JAWS reading a PowerPoint Presentation
- From: Anna K Byrne <annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:59:33 -0500
Power Point 2000 or 2002 is a three-paned
application--slide view, notes, and outline view. Switch between panes
with F6. With 2000 JFW Sayall often reads the outline view from start to
end very easily, but PP 2002 does not. One way to read the presentation is
in slide view, control-pagedown to go from slide to slide, and listening to
what JFW says as each screen is displayed. Another way is in slide view to
tab to the title placemarker and read with the JAWS cursor, then tab to the
subsequent placemarkers and read those with the JAWS cursor. Sometimes if
you press enter you will go into edit and be able to read line by line with
the PC cursor.
Another thing to try is go to slide show with F5. Spacebar moves to the
next slide; backspace moves to the previous slide.
In theory you can export the whole stinkin thing to MS-Word. However, it
arrives in Word as an OLE object, and although JFW reads pieces as the
transfer is occuring, once it has arrived, ... nada.
You can try saving to RTF, which might or might not be successful--my last
document included only part of the text; or saving as web page with the
same kinds of results.
the bottom line is that if the presentation is in some exotic format--with
text boxes, for example--JFW doesn't do well with it at all, just as it
doesn't read text boxes well in MS Word.
Good
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