Re: easiest way of proofreading

  • From: "Tom Reid" <Tom.Reid2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:07:34 +0100

Hi Troy,

You could use sentence reading and concentrate on the first word of each sentence.

But, also, think in sentence mode when you type and pause before first letter to concentrate on putting in the and caps. Gradually, you can reduce and eliminate your pausing.

Your stuff shows how much of a disadvantage blind people still are at even with such a powerful reader as jaws.

Tom


----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: easiest way of proofreading



Thanks for the tips Judith.
Troy


----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: easiest way of proofreading



It has a lot of extraneous stuff and if you correct everything that they
want you to correct your manuscript will end up looking like garbage. You
have to know your text, how you want to express yourself and check
suggestions that might sound applicable. When I first got my machine years
ago I corrected everything the grammer check suggested and what I ended up
with was not a civilized document. If the grammer suggests something that
you aren't sure of hit the number 8 on the numerical keyboard and the
sentence in question will be read to you. If you want to hear the next
sentence just hit the down arrow. If you want to get out of the
grammer/spell check and don't want to lose all your corrections shift tab to
"close" button and press enter. It will take awhile but the more
conscientious you become about your writing the better you will be at all of
this. Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: easiest way of proofreading



I had the check grammar checkbox checked at one time but it was giving me
way more info than I wanted but I don't remember what it was now because
it
has been a while.  Smile.
Troy


----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 3:57 PM Subject: Re: easiest way of proofreading


I proof read in say all almost all of the time. You train your ear to listen to subtleties and eventually you get it all. The other option is
to
check the grammer check in your spell check. This will point out things
like the first letter of a sentence not being capitalized. As for writing
the word NO with two capital letters I guess the only solution for that is
for you to be more careful. Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: easiest way of proofreading



> Hi All, > I just got a note from my boss saying that in my reports I often don't > capitalize the first word of a sentence, and often when I type the word
no
I
> capitalize both letters when only the n needs to be capitalized.
>
> I haven't been proofreading my work because it takes too long but I'm
> obviously going to need to start doing it now, is there an easy way if
I'm
> reading with say-all with Jaws to know when I encounter some of these
> errors?
>
> Also under autocorrect in word there are two checkboxes, one for
correcting
> if the first two letters in a word are capitalized and the other to
> capitalize the first letter of the sentence, but obviously that's not
> working although both of those boxes are checked, does anybody have any
idea
> why this might be?
>
> Thanks.
> Troy
>
>
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