Thank you Don, Nick, and Grant for your help! I have my settings defaulted to Structured mode and know how to switch to different modes when I need to do so. The suggestion is to make sure I am in Normal in View makes most sense to me. I just checked it out here on this computer but i AM NOT HAVING PROBLEM HERE - IT'S ON MY LAPTOP BUT I'm SURE THIS WOULD WORK! thanks! Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Hardy" <grant_hardy@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:38 PM Subject: RE: MS-Word & Braille Issue > You should first make sure you're in normal view, and then you should try to > un-check unnecessary items in the View menu. For example, under the Toolbars > sub menu, make sure things like the Clipboard toolbar are unchecked. > You should probably also uncheck the ruler, as this is useless to a blind > person, as well as press control+insert+f4 to ensure the office assistant is > not showing up. > > Good luck. > > > -Grant Hardy > Email/MSN: grant_hardy@xxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of > Jeff Bohrman > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 6:21 PM > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: MS-Word & Braille Issue > > Hello Friends: > > I've had to use smaller Braille displays such as Power Braille 40 and > BrailleNote 32. When I pull up a MS-Word document, I see only relatively > few letters on the left margin of the document - in other words I mean that > more than half of the left side of Braille display is blank. This sure > makes reading stuff quite tedious. > > Is there a way that we can make the Word documents show up starting from the > first Braille cell for the first letter of each line, please. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Jeffs > > > -- > 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. > > 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. > > 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. 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