Re: Troublesome Word document (appears to be empty)
- From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:31:50 -0700
Or you could have your view set to not display hidden text. That checkbox is
under tools->options->view tab and you check the box hidden text.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Troublesome Word document (appears to be empty)
> It's probably a scanned in image, I've seen that before, happens a lot in
> PDF files too, if you have a program like open book or Kurzweil, an OCR
> program, open the file in there, it will read it and then you can resave it
> from there as what ever you want, word document, text, and it will read
> fine.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:49 AM
> Subject: Troublesome Word document (appears to be empty)
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > A colleague sent me a Word document which, according to JAWS, had nothing
> > in
> > it. I saved it as a text file and still according to JAWS there was
> > nothing
> > in it. So I thought it could be something to do with "inline objects" but
> > when I pressed CTRL SHFT O JAWS said "There are no objects in the text
> > layer).
> >
> > I printed the document and scanned it, and there was text there.
> >
> > So what is the problem with this document? What do I tell my colleague to
> > do in future to make sure the documents are accessible to me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Catherine
> >
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