Re: Downgrading to M365 Personal or Family Classic
BTW, I just used the "Switch Plan" button to go back to M365 Family Classic so that I would not forget in August.
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Even when you make this choice, your trial with integrated Copilot remains active until your renewal date later in the year, so if you do want to go back to Classic you can still keep playing with integrated Copilot until your renewal date.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Re: Downgrading to M365 Personal or Family Classic
Hello All, I am giving these instructions a rerun once every several months since the worldwide "free trial" (and the trial is free) of integrated Copilot in M365 began in January 2025.? This trial is free until you reach your annual renewal date, and if you have not elected to "downgrade" back to M365 Classic, you will see an increase of $30 per year to keep integrated Copilot, and that is going to be the default subscription.? You must downgrade if you don't want integrated Copilot and the price increase.
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I realize that the partial screenshot I am going to place in this post will not be directly helpful to many, but for those of you that do have sighted assistants around, it will show them precisely what they should be looking for.? I'll also give a brief description of the identifying text for screen reader users.
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First, go straight to the cancel page for M365 for your account: ??
If you're logged in to your Windows account and it's MS Account linked, this should take you straight there without having to do any of the steps from within MS-Word or another Office Suite program to get there.
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Here is what you should see, literally, if you scroll down the page a bit, it is not at the top:
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There is a section that is labeled:? Choose a plan that's right for you.
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Immediately beneath that are two boxes, both of which have bright yellow strips beneath the following respective text:
- Current Subscription
- Current Subscription without AI
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The first will show the new "default" form of M365 Family or Personal (depending on your current subscription) with the price increase related to keeping integrated Copilot after the trial period ends at your next renewal date.? In the USA that's $30/year more than an existing subscription price. In my case, since I'm the primary subscriber for M365 Family, immediately below is: Microsoft 365 Family, $129.99/year.
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The second option, without AI, will show the price you're currently paying, as "Classic."? In my case, immediately below is:? Microsoft 365 Family Classic, $99.99/year.? Then, after the list of services that go with the non-AI version, is a Switch Plan button which, if activated, would keep me on the Classic level when my renewal date arrives, leaving my current services unchanged.
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There is a third box, with no yellow banner, that reads Microsoft 365 Personal, $99.99/year, that is about the "with AI" version of M365 Personal.? If you are a M365 Personal subscriber already, this box may either be entirely absent or might be replaced with one for M365 Basic.? I just can't say.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Re: Make Chrome default browser for links in email
Click start and then type in default to thesearch.
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Sent: 04 May 2025 14:48
To: [email protected]
Subject: [M365-Accessibility] Make Chrome default browser for links in email
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Hi all.
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I¡¯ve set my default browsser on my laptop to Chrome, but when I hit a link in an email, it takes me to Edge. How do I make Chrome the default for eamil links?
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Thanks in advance.
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Cheers.
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Re: How do I get Outlook to stop making sounds
File, with alt+f options, check around in there for check spelling as you type.
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Sent: 04 May 2025 02:57
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Subject: Re: [M365-Accessibility] How do I get Outlook to stop making sounds
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Try hitting insert V while you¡¯re in the message, search for spellcheck, then turn off automatic spellcheck
On May 3, 2025, at 7:24?PM, JOHN RIEHL via groups.io <REALMAN02@...> wrote:
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How do I get Outlook ?to stop making sounds when it finds a spell check error or corrects one, or gives me an autocomplete?
I¡¯ve turned off ¡°notify with Sound¡± in the accessiiblity under Options, and I can¡¯t find this in JAWS quick settings. Using the latest versions of Office and JAWS.
Thanks
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
You do not say what screen reader you're using, but you have to remember order of precedence for keyboard shortcuts:
1. Windows - if it's a Windows shortut, then the OS processes it and your're done.? If it's not, then it gets passed to . . .
2. Screen reader gets next crack.? And since most screen readers allow remapping of keyboard shortcuts to some extent if it has "stolen" a shortcut that might be used by the program being accessed, then it processes it.??
3. Last, the program being accessed.
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My guess is that Ctrl + E has somehow been taken by your screen reader if it's not centering text in Word.? The easiest way to at least try to verify this is to enter the screen reader's pass-through command before you hit Ctrl + E for Word.? If it suddenly works, you have your answer - the screen reader has it and you need to assign whatever it's using it for to a different shortcut.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
I tried all of the commands given and they all say they do what they are supposed to do with that one exception! Strange. I need to get a sighted person to watch and see what actually happens on the screen and maybe even a printout. Very odd. ? ?
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Subject: Re: [M365-Accessibility] Command in Word to Center a Line? On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM, NCBootman wrote: Am I correct to assume all of these commands work the same as center where I just have to be somewhere in the chunk of text?
Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0) It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ?????? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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Re: How do I get Outlook to stop making sounds
It is JAWS, insert+6. JAWS is probably making the sounds. There's a buzz sound when the word is incorrect, and a ding when the word has been corrected. NVDA's sounds are worse on the ear.
| Wayne Senior, Dewsbury, England
On Monday, 5 May 2025 at 15:28:22 BST, Brian Vogel via groups.io <britechguy@...> wrote:
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 05:27 AM, Wayne23 wrote:
Open Configuration Manager
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What is this?? That's a serious question, as I don't think I've ever encountered this in Outlook.? I suspect you're talking about JAWS, but am not 100% certain.
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I also suspect that what's "making sounds" is the screen reader in use, not Outlook itself.? I've never encountered Outlook giving auditory feedback for spelling errors (or at least not as it comes out of the box).
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Regards,
Wayne Senior
Latest stable versions of NVDA, JAWS and Narrator.
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM, NCBootman wrote:
Am I correct to assume all of these commands work the same as center where I just have to be somewhere in the chunk of text?
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Yes.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
Am I correct to assume all of these commands work the same as center where I just have to be somewhere in the chunk of text? Greg ?
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Sent: Monday, May 5, 2025 11:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [M365-Accessibility] Command in Word to Center a Line? Ctrl + L? -? Left Justify/Align Left Ctrl + R - Right Justify/Align Right Ctrl + J? - Justify, that is, distribute text such that its spread out between the left and right margins, creating a "square look" for the paragraph. Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0) It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ?????? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
I think Brian already clarified this, but control+e has been center as long as I have used word and that is since Word 2003. The only way you would get left justify is with control+l unless something very strange got changed in your keyboard. ? ? ? Richard, USA "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." -- Pope Francis ? My web site: ?
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Sent: Monday, May 5, 2025 8:38 AM
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Subject: [M365-Accessibility] Command in Word to Center a Line? What is the keyboard shortcut to center a line in Word like a title? I tried looking it up and was told control E and that is wrong! That is to left justify. ? Thanks. ?
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
Thank you so much. The info I read forgot to mention that one little important detail of how to make it work. Greg ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel via groups.io
Sent: Monday, May 5, 2025 11:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [M365-Accessibility] Command in Word to Center a Line? Ctrl + E is center.? One selects nothing, but just places one's insertion point somewhere in the text one wants centered, and hits Ctrl + E. This will center all text from where the "chunk" begins until the next hard return (Enter) was hit in the document.? So if you are somewhere in a paragraph that spans lines, the entire paragraph ends up centered. Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0) It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ?????? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
BTW:
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Ctrl + L? -? Left Justify/Align Left
Ctrl + E? - Center
Ctrl + R - Right Justify/Align Right
Ctrl + J? - Justify, that is, distribute text such that its spread out between the left and right margins, creating a "square look" for the paragraph.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
?????? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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Re: Command in Word to Center a Line
Ctrl + E is center.? One selects nothing, but just places one's insertion point somewhere in the text one wants centered, and hits Ctrl + E.
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This will center all text from where the "chunk" begins until the next hard return (Enter) was hit in the document.? So if you are somewhere in a paragraph that spans lines, the entire paragraph ends up centered.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
?????? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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Command in Word to Center a Line
What is the keyboard shortcut to center a line in Word like a title? I tried looking it up and was told control E and that is wrong! That is to left justify. ? Thanks. ?
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On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM, Gaston Bedard wrote:
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To what, exactly?
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Your points are well taken.? Your best bet with Windows is to restart the machine, and if desperate doing so by holding down the power button to power off, then firing it up again and seeing if speech returns.
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If not, then try turning on Narrator (WinKey + Ctrl + Enter) and see if you get any sound/speech from it.
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If you've got nothing after that, either sound is muted (which JAWS and NVDA both used to unmute when they started up) or your sound card is not functioning or the audio service is not running for some reason.
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Power Options have zero connection to Audio.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Just a little response.
Blind persons cannot see what is going on on the screen.
It is good and wise to have sounds to inform us that something works, or something is turned off.
I am having such a problem at the moment with my Windows 11 computer.
My screen reader is not speaking, which leaves me stuck.
It is possible the Windows 11 sound system was turned off by a tech guy.
He says he played with the Power Options.
When I got back from my walk there was no sound, my screen reader is not speaking.
The shortcut to enable speech is not working.
Without sounds and speech the computer is no longer accessible to a blind person.
Gaston
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Re: How do I get Outlook to stop making sounds
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 05:27 AM, Wayne23 wrote:
Open Configuration Manager
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What is this?? That's a serious question, as I don't think I've ever encountered this in Outlook.? I suspect you're talking about JAWS, but am not 100% certain.
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I also suspect that what's "making sounds" is the screen reader in use, not Outlook itself.? I've never encountered Outlook giving auditory feedback for spelling errors (or at least not as it comes out of the box).
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
?????? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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Re: How do I get Outlook to stop making sounds
Open Configuration Manager, type "spelling" into the search box, then uncheck the box for typing. That should do it. If not, try disabling one of the others.
| Wayne Senior, Dewsbury, England
On Sunday, 4 May 2025 at 02:24:44 BST, JOHN RIEHL via groups.io <realman02@...> wrote:
How do I get Outlook ?to stop making sounds when it finds a spell check error or corrects one, or gives me an autocomplete? I¡¯ve turned off ¡°notify with Sound¡± in the accessiiblity under Options, and I can¡¯t find this in JAWS quick settings. Using the latest versions of Office and JAWS. Thanks
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Wayne Senior
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Re: Make Chrome default browser for links in email
It was Outlook Classic, and the instructions you sent worked a treat. Thanks. ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2025 5:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [M365-Accessibility] Make Chrome default browser for links in email? What Outlook are you using?? Is this for all links in any email message, or select messages? HTML formatted email, which is essentially all of it, can be written in such a way that the message itself is the determiner of what program gets invoked.? Microsoft makes a habit of having its links open in Edge. Much more detail about what's being used and the Windows ecosystem it's being used under is needed here.? And if, by chance, the email client is not Outlook, then this is off-topic. Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0) It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ?????? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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Re: Make Chrome default browser for links in email
If Outlook Classic is opening links in Microsoft Edge instead of your preferred browser, you can change this setting within Outlook itself. Here¡¯s how to make Outlook use your system¡¯s default browser for links:
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Open Outlook Classic.
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Click?File?in the top left corner.
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Select?Options?(bottom left).
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In the Outlook Options window, go to the?Advanced?tab.
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Scroll to?File and browser preferences?(or?Link Handling?in some older versions).
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Find the setting?Open hyperlinks from Outlook in:?and change it from?Microsoft Edge?to?Default Browser.
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Click?OK?to save your changes.
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Links should now open in whatever you have set in Default Apps on your computer as your default web browser.
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Brian? ¡¤ ¡á? ¡¤ ???? ¡¤ ?Virginia, USA?- Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100; M365 Family; Android 13 (Xiaomi HyperOS 1.0.10.0)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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