One person's spell check blues cured
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:27:44 -0800
this isn't about the spell check issue with Word 2003 that's been discussed
here today. This is about the spell check having little fits where it won't
say anything more revealing than "word not found" sometimes, and refusing to
let me read the, or putative mistake, in context by pressing Insert/Jaws C.
Well, as I remember what we all guessed as we batted this around a bit, I
tried stuff like exiting the spell check, maximizing the message I was
composing, then launching the spell checker again, and sometimes that seemed to
let it work better. But sometimes it didn't help. I can't remember what else
I tried-- oh, yes, some tricks involving pressing F7, but with different keys
instead of just alone, in ways that made it seem like a hotkey of some sort,
but none of that did anything at all. All those suggestions seemed as if they
must be for some entirely different sort of program and problem, because they
didn't do anything at all,.
Then I thought, brilliant me, why not just press the old Insert/Jaws key-Escape
combination to refresh the screen and see if that straightened the spell check
and/or Jaws out?
Voila! Sometimes I have to do it every few words during even a short spell
check operation (this has never had anything to do with Jaws getting "tired" is
some way, as I heard someone else suggest on the Word 2003 thread), but it
spans back into focus, and the Jaws cursor voice goes back to speaking the line
with the error in it, and everything.
So, for what help it may be, just try refreshing the Jaws screen with something
like this and see if your Jaws focus recovers.
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