Cy and Dave, thank you for the input. For clarification, Dave, I am running a licensed copy of Jaws with the latest version of Jaws 12 with downloaded updates. I am running windows 7. and Cy, yes, I am probably opening word documents that were originally created using Office 2000 and 2002 and the current Office 2003 that I am currently using. So, Cy, or anyone else, when you are in a word document and use the jaws command "jaws key plus letter Q" to hear which script files are being run, what settings does jaws report back for the jaws settings. My computer and jaws reports "microsoft word 2007 settings are loaded". thank you. John _____ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cy Selfridge Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 5:52 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Jaws 12 and office 2010 John, You must be bringing XP documents over to the 2010 Word. I wold strongly recommend that you save your documents in "97-2003" format that way you can send your documents back to XP machines. (I presume you have Office 2003 on the XP or Vista computer. Be very careful when running down through the possible file types in Word 2007 and/or Word 2010 because there is a "97/2003" format and a "97/2003 Template" Cy, The Anasazi From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Farfar Carlson Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:55 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Jaws 12 and office 2010 John, 1. Yes. You'll hear that whenever you open a dot D O C file. New file extension is dot D O C X. 2. That is correct. F6 will route you through 3 or 4 different "panes". 3. I'll bet that's because you have a demo version. There are 2010 scripts shipped with JAWS 12, for sure. Don't know about JAWS 11. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: john R. <mailto:jrvaughn44@xxxxxxxxxxx> Vaughn To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 12:05 Subject: RE: Jaws 12 and office 2010 I have just downloaded the Office 2010 home and student trial version to see how I like it. two questions, 1. I just opened an existing document using Word 2010 and heard jaws say the document was in "compatibility mode". I assume this is because it is an older document? 2. On a new document, instead of hearing compatibility mode, I heard print view. 3. when I did an insert key plus letter Q, jaws reported that the MS 2007 Word settings were loaded. Is there no MS 2010 word settings yet done? thanks for any feedback John in sunny and warm southwest florida _____ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R&J Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:31 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Jaws 12 and office 2010 I just made the plunge last week going from Microsoft Office Professional 2003 to Office Home & Student 2010, as I never used Access which is the main upgrade to the professional package. My first concern was that Office Home & Student does not have Outlook which I use a lot for calendaring activities, although I am aware that Thunderbird with the Lightning add-on is pretty good as well. I poked around on a few websites and learned that the 2003 and 2010 versions of Office can and do co-exist nicely on the same computer. Thus, I could leave the 2003 version of Outlook on my machine and add the new 2010 package. When you install Office Home & Student 2010, it asks you if you want to upgrade and retain your older office products. It then gives you a choice of which ones to keep. I decided to keep all of 2003 in case I had a long learning curve. The menu structure is completely different on the 2010 products; however, after spending a few hours going through all the menus and options, I quickly found the things I use most and have not reverted back to the old software so far. JAWS seems to work fine with it as long as you turn on JAWS ribbon support. All the cell and formula entry is the same and if you use the ctrl+1 combination (the 1 is on the upper number row) to bring up all the formatting options, it is just like it was in 2003 and you do not have to hunt the new menus. I'd make the change, but I'm a software geeky guy so you may feel different about it. Office Home & Student is $119.00 at Best Buy for a key-card downloadable version and $149 for a DVD copy of the software for up to three licenses. That's a good deal even if you share them with friends and split the cost. Ron From: "john R. Vaughn" <jrvaughn44@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:00:10 -0500 List, I am about to upgrade my office 2003 student to either Office 2007 or Office 2010 Home and Office. I suspect the correct long term decision is to get the new Office 2010 home and office as it is obtainable of a cost of around $200. But I am not of the mind set to have to struggle with office 2010 if there are still a lot of bugs using it with either Jaws 12 or jaws 11 as I have them both on the computer running windows 7. I would appreciate any thoughts, comments or experiences as others may be in a similar situation over possible upgrading. john in sunny florida