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Re: How to run an accessible compare documents with Word
Andre Polykanine
Hello again Chelsea,
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I might be wrong but it seems, there's no usable way to compare two Word documents if you're blind. What you can do however (and it's a more correct way to proceed, I should say) is to ask your editor or whatever person changing your document to turn on track changes. That can be done either on the Review ribbon, in the Tracking submenu, or just by pressing Ctrl+Shift+E. Thus, when he or she sends you the document back, you will hear different revisions in the document. That works great with JAWS, but I heard NVDA also does work. -- With best regards, Andre Munich, Germany Skype: menelion_elensule Twitter (English only): @AndrePolykanine ------------ Original message ------------
From: Chelsea <Lady.arwen15@...> To: [email protected] Date created: , 10:24:54 PM Subject: [office-accessibility] How to run an accessible compare documents with Word Hello, Another crucial part of my job involves running compares on documents. I have my completed work, and I receive another document with revisions in it. How do I compare the two so that I know what the revisions are? Thanks, Chelsea |
Re: Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word
Chelsea
Hi Andre and all,
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So how does Word know one paragraph from the other if I'm not supposed to use tabs or spaces? My editor specifically told me to press enter followed by tab to get a new paragraph. Thanks, Chelsea On 9/9/20, Andre Polykanine via groups.io <andre@...> wrote:
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Re: Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word
Andre Polykanine
Hello Chelsea,
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Please please, never, never ever use tabs or spaces for formatting! It's actually the first commandment of a person learning document formatting. That is because if you do that, different monitors and/or different printers will definitely mess the things up. fortunately, Word is an extremely powerful software and it offers us everything what we need here. If you need to make first line indented by half an inch, open the Home ribbon, select Paragraph, and then Paragraph... again. This dialog is what you need. Here you can see a combo box called Special. Press Down Arrow in it until you hear "First Line", then press Tab. In the "By" field enter 0.5 and make sure your measurement units are set to inches (if not, please tell me, I'll guide you through). Next. If you want to align all of the document left (which is the default setting, by the way), you may select all by pressing Ctrl+A, then press Ctrl+L. This is a Word command, but if you use JAWS, you'll hear "Aligned left". If you hear "Justified", press the keystroke once more (the recent versions of Word seem to toggle alignment). If Word crashes upon selecting the whole document, size might be the problem, yes. Then you need to select it part by part and apply your changes. By the way, if it's 1 inch from the left, then probably you have custom indentation there and you need to go to this Paragraph dialog again. And lastly, the difference between left aligned documents and justified ones is the following: When you align left, the first letters of your lines are on the same vertical level. When you justify however (in some languages, for example in Russian, it's called "Align by width"), Word makes your text so that first letters are on the same vertical level and last letters are on the same vertical level. That can lead to larger spaces between words on shorter lines. Hope that helps. -- With best regards, Andre Munich, Germany Skype: menelion_elensule Twitter (English only): @AndrePolykanine ------------ Original message ------------
From: Chelsea <Lady.arwen15@...> To: [email protected] Date created: , 5:25:15 PM Subject: [office-accessibility] Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word Hello, When formatting an exercise for my potential job, I need to indent the first line of a new paragraph to 0.5 inches. No problem, just press Tab, right? Well, when I did that, the person reviewing my work said the margins got all messed up. When I did an insert F, things sounded normal, though. Also, how do I get everything moved over to the left in a document? When I do an Insert F on another document I'm working on, it says left indent of 1 inches. It's only part of the file, but I want to select the whole thing to make it universal. I tried, but MS Word crashes. It's a big file. Could that be a problem? And what's the difference between justified and left anyhow? Thanks, Chelsea |
Re: Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word
开云体育I ran into this problem last Semester when I was trying to format my term papers. My old laptop was buggy apparently with its word installations so when I hit the tab it didn’t do the whole thing… Plus I needed it a different measurement. It tended toIndent ?the entire paragraph not the first line.…What I did to fix it was to go to applications, paragraph formatting, and tabbed down until I got too special—I forget what it is called something to do with first line I think? It’s a combo box so I opened it and selected .5. So every time I create a new paragraph it automatically ?Indented ?at the first line to that measurement. I was using NVDA so I hit N Number pad zero ?plus the period to see the measurement of where it was from top to bottom and could hear it ?Indented ? to the right amount… Then I was able to check the other lines of that paragraph to make sure they weren’t moved--I forget what the jaws command is. Melissa On Sep 9, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Mike B <mb69mach1@...> wrote:
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Re: Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word
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Here's a note I've save, hope it
helps.
From: Adrian Spratt
I use the paragraph dialog for this purpose. “Paragraph” is one of those misleading MS terms because this dialog can be used for an entire document or for selected passages. Here’s how it works. ?
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It sounds like you want all paragraphs in your document to be indented automatically by half an inch. So?? ?
Control-a for select all.??
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Applications key, or shift-F10.?
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P for paragraph, even though you’re formatting the
entire document.?
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Tab five times to a list you access via the up and
down arrows. Right now, it is likely set at 0.0. Up arrow five times until you
hear “0.5.”?
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Press enter.?
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That will ?work for the current document. If
you want to make this format your default for all future Word 2010 documents,
keep open or reopen the paragraph
dialog and tab until you get to the default checkbox. Here, I wouldn’t end by pressing enter, but keep going until you reach the Okay button.? ?
In this same dialog, you’ll find spacing, margins
and many other essential format features.?
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Another nice feature of this dialog is that you
can change the format for specific paragraphs or passages within a document. For
example, if you have a
quotation you wish to set off separately from the rest of the text, highlight that passage, press the applications key, then p, then go through the options. In this case, I bring the paragraph indentation down to 0.0, indent both the left and right margins by 0.5, and select single spacing. I then tab to Okay. ?
Adrian??
Take care.? Mike.? Sent from my iBarstool.? Go dodgers! ----- Original Message -----
From: Chelsea
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2020 8:25 AM
Subject: [office-accessibility] Margin and paragraph questions
regarding Word When formatting an exercise for my potential job, I need to indent the first line of a new paragraph to 0.5 inches. No problem, just press Tab, right? Well, when I did that, the person reviewing my work said the margins got all messed up. When I did an insert F, things sounded normal, though. Also, how do I get everything moved over to the left in a document? When I do an Insert F on another document I'm working on, it says left indent of 1 inches. It's only part of the file, but I want to select the whole thing to make it universal. I tried, but MS Word crashes. It's a big file. Could that be a problem? And what's the difference between justified and left anyhow? Thanks, Chelsea |
Re: Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word
Sherry Salsbury
The difference between Align Justified and Align Left is Align Left is everything is aligned to the left margin, no extra spaces added to the document. Whereas, Align Justified is the Left and Right margins are aligned straight and extra spaces are added to each line to make the margins straight.
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My apologies for not answering your other questions, as I don't have the time to investigate. I hope the above answers and helps. Sherry -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chelsea Sent: September 9, 2020 8:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [office-accessibility] Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word Hello, When formatting an exercise for my potential job, I need to indent the first line of a new paragraph to 0.5 inches. No problem, just press Tab, right? Well, when I did that, the person reviewing my work said the margins got all messed up. When I did an insert F, things sounded normal, though. Also, how do I get everything moved over to the left in a document? When I do an Insert F on another document I'm working on, it says left indent of 1 inches. It's only part of the file, but I want to select the whole thing to make it universal. I tried, but MS Word crashes. It's a big file. Could that be a problem? And what's the difference between justified and left anyhow? Thanks, Chelsea |
Re: how to change the measuring unit cm to inches in microsoft word
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Try the following:
1. With Word open press, Alt + F, then press the
letter, T , to open options.
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2. Navigate down to, Advanced, now press, Alt + M,
until you hear, Display show measurements in units of combobox ...
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3. Make your change, tab to, Okay, press enter to
save / close.
Take care.? Mike.? Sent from my iBarstool.? Go dodgers! ----- Original Message -----
From: Nosheen Ahmad
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2020 8:41 AM
Subject: [office-accessibility] how to change the measuring unit cm
to inches in microsoft word centimetres. how can i change it to inches. thanks... |
Re: how to change the measuring unit cm to inches in microsoft word
Sherry Salsbury
To change to inches please follow the following:
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Open a blank Word document, Alt+F, tab until Options then Enter, Cntrl+tab until you hearAdvance,then tab until you hear change units from : cm combo box, this is where you can change the units to inches by default. Please be aware that there is a lot of tabbing to get to this point. Hope this helps. Sherry -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nosheen Ahmad Sent: September 9, 2020 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [office-accessibility] how to change the measuring unit cm to inches in microsoft word Hi. in Microsoft office word, in page set up, the margins are shown in centimetres. how can i change it to inches. thanks... |
Re: Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word
Christina Brino
开云体育If you want to move everything to the left use the command control plus the letter l. This moves ?everything to the left.? Christina ?Brino Pampered Chef ??Consultant 862-812-8058 Brino.christina@... www.pamperedchef.biz/cbrino ? On Sep 9, 2020, at 11:32 AM, Chelsea <Lady.arwen15@...> wrote:
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Margin and paragraph questions regarding Word
Chelsea
Hello,
When formatting an exercise for my potential job, I need to indent the first line of a new paragraph to 0.5 inches. No problem, just press Tab, right? Well, when I did that, the person reviewing my work said the margins got all messed up. When I did an insert F, things sounded normal, though. Also, how do I get everything moved over to the left in a document? When I do an Insert F on another document I'm working on, it says left indent of 1 inches. It's only part of the file, but I want to select the whole thing to make it universal. I tried, but MS Word crashes. It's a big file. Could that be a problem? And what's the difference between justified and left anyhow? Thanks, Chelsea |
Re: Tips and tricks
开云体育Hi David, Thanks for the reply! If you’d like? help, do let me know, I can also stick it on my website if you’d like or don’t have the space on yours. ? ? Sarah ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 4:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Tips and tricks ? For future reference please direct all non-Office related questions about using Windows 10 to the Windows 10 discussion list. You can subscribe by sending an email to I know that some of you may feel that I'm too strict and rigid when it comes to keeping this list to questions which are only relevant to Office. However, please consider that this list has received approximately 200 members in the course of just one week and those members joined this group with specific expectations. If the list begins to morph into topics which are not relevant to the intended purpose of this list this only increases message traffic as well as the possibility of people leaving the list because it generated too many off-topic messages. ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist JAWS Certified, 2019 ? On 9/8/2020 7:27 PM, Maria Perez wrote:
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Re: Tips and tricks
开云体育For future reference please direct all non-Office related questions about using Windows 10 to the Windows 10 discussion list. You can subscribe by sending an email to I know that some of you may feel that I'm too strict and rigid when it comes to keeping this list to questions which are only relevant to Office. However, please consider that this list has received approximately 200 members in the course of just one week and those members joined this group with specific expectations. If the list begins to morph into topics which are not relevant to the intended purpose of this list this only increases message traffic as well as the possibility of people leaving the list because it generated too many off-topic messages.
David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist JAWS Certified, 2019 On 9/8/2020 7:27 PM, Maria Perez wrote:
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Re: Tips and tricks
Maria Perez
开云体育Perfect.? Thanks Sherry. ? Maria ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
On Behalf Of Sherry Salsbury
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Tips and tricks ? It is Windows Key + B ? Hope this helps. Sherry ? From:
[email protected] <[email protected]>
On Behalf Of Maria Perez ? Speaking of tips and tricks, does anyone know how to access the notifications? ?I am using JAWS 2020 and windows 10. ? Thanks in advance. ? ? From:
[email protected] <[email protected]>
On Behalf Of David Goldfield ? Sarah, thanks for asking. This is definitely on my list of things to do for this group. I'll either use the group wiki or dedicate some space on my Web site for this. I'm already collecting various items as they come through on this list and they will definitely be archived. It likely won't happen immediately but neither will it take a long time for it to take form. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist JAWS Certified, 2019 ? On 9/8/2020 6:00 PM, Sarah Hale wrote:
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Re: Tips and tricks
Sherry Salsbury
开云体育It is Windows Key + B ? Hope this helps. Sherry ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Maria Perez
Sent: September 8, 2020 4:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Tips and tricks ? Speaking of tips and tricks, does anyone know how to access the notifications? ?I am using JAWS 2020 and windows 10. ? Thanks in advance. ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield ? Sarah, thanks for asking. This is definitely on my list of things to do for this group. I'll either use the group wiki or dedicate some space on my Web site for this. I'm already collecting various items as they come through on this list and they will definitely be archived. It likely won't happen immediately but neither will it take a long time for it to take form. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist JAWS Certified, 2019 ? On 9/8/2020 6:00 PM, Sarah Hale wrote:
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Re: Tips and tricks
Maria Perez
开云体育Speaking of tips and tricks, does anyone know how to access the notifications? ?I am using JAWS 2020 and windows 10. ? Thanks in advance. ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Tips and tricks ? Sarah, thanks for asking. This is definitely on my list of things to do for this group. I'll either use the group wiki or dedicate some space on my Web site for this. I'm already collecting various items as they come through on this list and they will definitely be archived. It likely won't happen immediately but neither will it take a long time for it to take form. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist JAWS Certified, 2019 ? On 9/8/2020 6:00 PM, Sarah Hale wrote:
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Re: Tips and tricks
开云体育Sarah, thanks for asking. This is definitely on my list of things
to do for this group. I'll either use the group wiki or dedicate
some space on my Web site for this. I'm already collecting various
items as they come through on this list and they will definitely
be archived. It likely won't happen immediately but neither will
it take a long time for it to take form. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist JAWS Certified, 2019 On 9/8/2020 6:00 PM, Sarah Hale wrote:
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Feel free to visit the moderator's Web site www.davidgoldfield.org |
Tips and tricks
开云体育Hi all, ? I’ve been reading threads over the past few days and have a question. Is there anywhere to find these resources condensed into one place? For example, a Wiki or other resource website? ? Thank you, Sarah Hale Work: 714.852.3238 Email: sarah.hale@... ? ? ? |
Automatically adding previously used addresses to the address book in Outlook2016
Geetha Shamanna
Hi all,
Unlike Outlook Express, MS Outlook does not automatically add previously used addresses to the address book. IN Outlook2016, is there a setting that one can configure in order to get Outlook to do so? All the previously used addresses otherwise disappear when one migrates an email account and the corresponding .PST file to another computer. Many thanks. Geetha |