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Re: Creating filters which will move messages to certain mailboxes

 

In the email list, navigate to the mail you want to filter and launch the
context menu (Application key or Shift + F10). Go to Rules and select one of
the options or create a new rule. HTH.

Regards,
LU

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of larrygassman1@...
Sent: 05 September 2020 06:08
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] Creating filters which will move messages to
certain mailboxes

Hi,
I can do this in other e-mail programs but never learned with Office 365.
Is there a good solid tutorial that covers this.
In fact I just thought that perhaps Brian Hartgen does cover this in his two
outlook tutorials.
But I'll take any suggestion.
Thank you.
Larry


Re: Creating filters which will move messages to certain mailboxes

 

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Assuming you are using Office/Microsoft365 with the desktop client version of Outlook, this is done by creating a rule.
1. ?Place focus on the item in your Inbox that you would like to move to a specific mailbox/folder.
2. ?Open the Applications menu, and select Rule, then from the submenu, select Create Rule.
3. ?you are now in the Create Rule dialog, where you can tab through the various options to create a rule to move all email messages that meet the specified criteria to a desired mailbox/folder.?

HTH.

- Brad -


On Sep 5, 2020, at 00:07, larrygassman1@... wrote:

Hi,
I can do this in other e-mail programs but never learned with Office 365.
Is there a good solid tutorial that covers this.
In fact I just thought that perhaps Brian Hartgen does cover this in his two
outlook tutorials.
But I'll take any suggestion.
Thank you.
Larry







Re: Having JAWS 2020 Speak Capital Letters With Microsoft Word 2016

 

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David, you wrote:


>>Thanks for the advice to go into Say all in Settings Center. It speaks the caps with a higher pitch in Say All, but that works for me.

--

Yes, I noticed that, as well. However, I was able to get it to say "cap" instead of shifting capitalized words to a higher pitch by modifying the current scheme, moving to the Misc page and setting the caps voice to say "cap" for a capitalized word. Admittedly, this is a rather involved process but I think that FS does it this way to give users a large amount of control over what happens when capitalized letters are encountered.


David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019

On 9/5/2020 11:53 AM, David Kingsbury wrote:

Hi David,

?

Thanks for the advice to go into Say all in Settings Center. It speaks the caps with a higher pitch in Say All, but that works for me.

?

David K.


Re: Having JAWS 2020 Speak Capital Letters With Microsoft Word 2016

 

Hi David,

?

Thanks for the advice to go into Say all in Settings Center. It speaks the caps with a higher pitch in Say All, but that works for me.

?

David K.


Re: Creating filters which will move messages to certain mailboxes

 

Hi Ed and I wrote this text file a few years ago, see if it helps you. Smiles

How to create a new folder and make rules for that new folder, in Outlook 2010 and 2016 by Jim and Ed
Hello W-10 and Jaws group, Ed and I worked together on this lesson.
Here is how to creat a folder and make emails go into a certain folder in outlook.
Any mistakes are Ed's fault, Smiles...
This is just the simplest way I have seen to make a folder and cause the directed emails to automatically go into that folder.
Using Outlook 2010 or 2013, or 2016, with Jaws 17 or 18.
For example, making a folder for the Windows 10 and Jaws group.
1. Be on and highlight, the email account you wish to add a folder to.
For example: **.com, the *** standing for your name followed by the email address.
3. Highlight that account folder, press the Applications key while on the selected account folder.
4. Arrowdown to, New Folder. press enter.
5. Type in the folder name, press Enter, For example, "W-10 and Jaws group".
6. The new folder is created for you, under that account.
7. Go into the inbox of the account you have added the new folder to.
8. Arrow down and highlight the email you wish to put into this folder, do not press Enter.
For example: Any group email messages, from the W-10 and Jaws group.
9. Press the applications key.
10. Arrowdown to, Rules sub menu, press the Rightarrow key one time.
11. Press enter on: Always move messages from***followed by the name of the group or person for this folder, like the W-10 and Jaws group.
12. Arrow up or Down, through the list of folders in this treeview, find the new folder, press Enter.
13. All the emails for now on, that you have selected, either a list, or a group, or personal email, from these choices will automatically, always go into this new folder in Outlook.
*Tip, Remember while in the tree view of folders, right arrow key, expands a folder account, and left arrow closes the list of folders for that account.
This also works in Outlook 2010, 2013, and 2016, using Jaws 17 or 18.
This is a much easier way, of creating a new folder, and making rules, to automatically direct those emails, to that new folder, using the outlook email client.
Good luck...
Remember any mistakes are Mr. Ed's fault, Smiles.
Please give us your member feedback, concerning this lesson.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of larrygassman1@...
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 1:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] Creating filters which will move messages to certain mailboxes

Hi,
I can do this in other e-mail programs but never learned with Office 365.
Is there a good solid tutorial that covers this.
In fact I just thought that perhaps Brian Hartgen does cover this in his two outlook tutorials.
But I'll take any suggestion.
Thank you.
Larry


Re: Track Changes in Word 2016

 

I figured it out; needed to change from Simple Markup to All Markup.

On 9/4/20, skylar covich via groups.io <covich7@...> wrote:
Thanks, but I'm actually referring to a situation where someone else
has already edited the document, and I need to find out ow the
document was before that person edited it. So this document was
already in the hands of two other people at least before me.



On 9/4/20, Bob Kennedy <intheshop@...> wrote:

Any time I plan to make chanbges, I make a working copy. One copy will
never
be changed and I'll work through the other. This way if anything gets
lost,
deleted or whatever, I can go back to the beginning. On Friday,
September 4, 2020, 05:21:15 PM EDT, skylar covich <covich7@...>
wrote:


Hello,

JAWS 2020, Word 2016. I'm working with a potential employer who gave
me a sample document to work on editing. There are revisions placed in
the document which may need to be reverted if they are wrong. I know
how to delete a revision or reject the change, but in order to reject
the change I need to know what was in the original document. What's
the best way to compare the revision with the original document using
JAWS?
Skylar








--
Skylar J. Covich, Ph.D., Political Science



--
Skylar J. Covich, Ph.D., Political Science


Re: are their any tutorials for outlook 2016

 

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Hi try this file to get you started.

Using Outlook 2016 with Jaws.

This is a text tutorial, provided freely by The W-10 and Jaws group, anyone may freely share this text file.

Author: Jim Flusche

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This lesson is now updated to the W2004 update.

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Using Outlook 2016 with Jaws.

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**Pressing the ALT key, will open or close the Virtual ribbons in Outlook 2016.

**Pressing the ALT key, will land you on the Home ribbon of the virtual ribbons? menu, in Outlook 2016.

From the Home ribbon, Rightarrow across to the other upper ribbons.

* For example, After Pressing the ALT key you will land on the Hone Ribbon of Outlook 2016.

As you Right arrow from the Home Ribbon, you will hear.

Send/recieve tab.

View tab.

Help Tab.

File Tab.

**tip, If you Press Enter on classic ribbons, the Folder ribbon will show up in the ribbons again.

Pressing the Right arrow key? again will wrap back around to the Home Tab.

*On any of the virtual ribbon upper ribbon tabs, tabs, Home tab, Send and recieve tab, View tab, or file tab, just press the Downarrow key to open the lower ribbon of that main upper tab.

*For example, after pressing ALT, pressing Downarrow from the Home tab, you will see.

1. New sub menu.

2. Delete sub menu.

3. Respond sub menu.

4. Quick steps sub menu.

5. Move sub menu.

6. Tags sub menu.

7. Find sub menu.

8. Speech, sub menu.

9. Add-ins, sub menu.*Now pressing the Leftarrow key from any of the lower ribbons, will take you back to the upper ribbon tab.

*Different things you may find, in the sub menus of the lower ribbon tabs.

1. Button item has pop-up, press Spacebar to open this list, press Enter on an item, or press Escape to close.

2. Split button, has pop-up, press Spacebar, press Enter on an item, or press Escape to close.

3. Arrange by Split button has pop-up, press Spacebar, press Enter on an item, or press Escape to close.

4. Show in Favorites button, this will show, this selected email account inbox, in the Favorites list at the top of your email folder list.

5. Move button dropdown, the selected email will be moved after pressing Enter, use the Arrow keys to find a folder, press Enter to move.

*Tip, its faster pressing Control+Shift+V, on the selected email, use the Arrow keys to find the folder, press Enter to move that email to that selected folder.

6. After pressing Enter on a certain button item pop-up, you will need to press Enter to check a certain item, if items can be checked under that item pop-up.

*For example.

Press ALT+V, for the view menu, Downarrow to the Layout sub menu.

Rightarrow to folder pain button drop down has pop-up, press the Spacebar.

On my computer, I have Normal checked, and Favorites checked.

I did this by pressing Enter on Normal, and repeated the above steps to return to the ribbons,? and pressed Enter on Favorites.

**Press ALT+F, followed by the letter T, to go to Outlook options.

Use your Uparrow/Downarrow keys, to select a category, press the Tab key, to go across the options in each category, press Enter on the OK button to save any changes.

**Using Smart lookup.

This is a cool feature,read below? For an example of how to use Smart lookup.

1. I highlighted the word, "bible", in an open email.

2. I pressed the Applications key.

3. I pressed Uparrow to, Smart lookup, I pressed Enter,

4. I was placed in a Smart lookup, result window.

5. I Pressed Control key+home, to go to the top of the page.

6. I began Down arrowing through the results page.

7. I selected and copied the following text:

"The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration.

`and a record of the relationship between God and humans".???? .

8. When you are done with the Smart lookup window, press the ALT key twice quickly.

9. This places you right back into the same email, with the word you looked up using Smart lookup.

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**To add a new contact in Outlook 2016.

1. Press Control+Shift+C, to create a new contact.

2. Type the new contact's name, Tab to the email edit box, type the email address.

3. Now just Press the Escape key, and a message will come up, asking you if you want to save, Press Enter on the yes button, and you are finished.

**Press Control+Shift+B, to open the Address book contact search edit box.

After Pressing the Control+Shift+B, to open the address book.

1. Now press alt+F, then press Enter on New Entry.

2. Now press Enter on New Contact.

3. You will now be in the new contact edit field, type the name for your new contact.

4. Now just Tab across to the email edit field, type the email address for the new contact.

5. Now just Press the Escape key, and a message will come up, asking you if you want to save, Press Enter on the yes button, and you are finished.

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Press Control+E, to access the Search edit boxin Outlook.

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**Press Insert+F8, for Outlook Global ToolBar Items dialog.

First letter navigation, works in the below list of items, press Enter to complete the task for the selected item.

1. Address Book

2. Advanced Find

3. Appointment Create

4. Contact Create

5. Delete

6. Dial

7. Document Print

8. Flag For Follow Up

9. Folder Go To

10. Folder Move Item To

11. Formatting Clear

12. In Box Move To

13. Item Copy

14. Item Move Back

15. Item Move Forward

16. Item Post

17. Journal Entry Create

18. Mail Message Create

19. Mark As Read

20. Meeting Request Create

21. Message Forward

22. New Folder Create

23. Note Create

24. Office Document Create

25. People Find

26. Reply

27. Reply To All

28. Task Create

29. Text Message Create

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*I freely offer the W-10 and Jaws group, and all of its materials, as a free and voluntary work of love, to reach out and teach all the blind computer users all over the world, how to learn how to use a W-10 computer using Jaws.

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You can subscribe to The? Windows 10 and Jaws @groups.io at:

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[email protected]

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You can email me? My email is:

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pinhead2017@...

Happy learning! God bless! From your humble Pinhead!

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Sincerely: Jim Flusche.

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Co-Owner of the Windows 10 and Jaws group.

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Andy is the other Co-owner of the windows 10 and jaws group.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Scott Davert
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 10:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] are their any tutorials for outlook 2016

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Conscdering that I was able to get a fully edited transcript turned around on an AppleVis podcast in a few days, I'd say they are not working very hard to make it happen. We make noprofit off of anything we do. The going rate for professional transcription is roughly $75 an audio hour. I guess we now know how little equal access is worth monitarily. Quite sad, isn't it? I've also noticed Hadley doesn't have an issue providing them either.

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Scott

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On Sep 4, 2020, at 1:37 PM, heather albright <kd5cbl@...> wrote:

Yes I remember freedom ?saying ?they were trying to provide transcrips at the convention. They were hoping to have them done by nov. These wer not transcribed yet. Thanks, for the info. I downloaded them and can listen to them with media player. Heather

?

Sent from for Windows 10

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From: larrygassman1@...
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] are their any tutorials for outlook 2016

?

Vispero was working on including transcripts for training webinars, but I don’t know if they’ve begun to release them yet.

A check of the Freedom Scientific web page should tell you.

Larry

?

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 8:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] are their any tutorials for outlook 2016

?

Ah, sorry that I somehow missed that. I know that Freedom Scientific offers transcripts for their podcasts but I'm unsure if they do the same for their archived webinars. I doubt that Brian Hartgen offers them.

?

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
?

On 9/4/2020 11:46 AM, Scott Davert wrote:

Hi David.

Heather was asking for written tutorials. Do you know if any of these audio tutorialss have transcripts?

?

Thanks for the info!

Scott

?


On Sep 4, 2020, at 11:41 AM, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@...> wrote:

Heather,

sells two tutorials covering the use of Outlook. I am not certain if they are more applicable to Outlook 2013 but most of the material should be relevant. I have heard that he talks about navigating with shift-tab to move from the list of messages to the list of folders. In later versions of Outlook this has changed to control-shift-tab.

Freedom Scientific released a three-part series of webinars covering Outlook 2016 as well as a skill-building webinar for that same version. There is also a webinar on Outlook from August of 2019. You can from the above link.

?

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
?

On 9/4/2020 11:20 AM, heather albright wrote:

Hello, I wanted to learn outlook 2016. I have been using the mail app with windows10. Just wondering if there is a written tutorials for 2016 that I can use. Thanks very much. Heather

?

Sent from for Windows 10

?

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Creating filters which will move messages to certain mailboxes

 

Hi,
I can do this in other e-mail programs but never learned with Office 365.
Is there a good solid tutorial that covers this.
In fact I just thought that perhaps Brian Hartgen does cover this in his two
outlook tutorials.
But I'll take any suggestion.
Thank you.
Larry


Re: outlook

 

Hello all,
Thanks so much for that quick fix. Yes, I was using the f7 method. My next
question is how do you create a rule so these message from this list go in
to a certain folder.
Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Scott Davert
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 9:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] outlook

Hi Walter.
I assume you are using f7? I've not used that method in quite awhile, but am
not having issues with the other method. If you press Insert z to turn Quick
Keys on, you can then press m to jump from mistake to mistake. When a
misspelled word is found, press the Applications key or Shift F10 to bring
up a list of suggestions and press enter to make the change. If you are
using NVDA, I'm sorry, I do not have an answer for you.

I hope this helps,
Scott
On Sep 4, 2020, at 9:59 PM, Viola <firekat72@...> wrote:

You have to tab to the change button then it will.

Viola


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
On Behalf Of Walter Harper
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] outlook

Hello all,
I am working with office 365. When I go to check spelling while
sending a email outlook is not correcting the spelling. In the
suggestion list it will tell you what the correct spelling is but it
will not make the correct change.
Walter







Re: outlook

 

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NVDA users have a similar command to move from one spelling error to the next when in Word or when composing a message in Outlook.

1. Press insert-space to switch from the default focus mode to browse mode.

2. Press W to move to the next word containing an error and shift-W for the previous error.

Users who choose to purchase the Leasey addon for JAWS have some additional methods which I'll address in another message.



David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019

On 9/4/2020 10:24 PM, Scott Davert wrote:

Hi Walter.
I assume you are using f7? I've not used that method in quite awhile, but am not having issues with the other method. If you press Insert z to turn Quick Keys on, you can then press m to jump from mistake to mistake. When a misspelled word is found, press the Applications key or Shift F10 to bring up a list of suggestions and press enter to make the change. If you are using NVDA, I'm sorry, I do not have an answer for you.

I hope this helps,
Scott
On Sep 4, 2020, at 9:59 PM, Viola <firekat72@...> wrote:

You have to tab to the change button  then it will.

Viola


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Walter Harper
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] outlook

Hello all,
I am working with office 365.  When I go to check spelling while sending a
email outlook is not correcting the spelling.  In the suggestion list it
will tell you what the correct spelling is but it will not make the correct
change.
Walter 










Re: Track Changes in Word 2016

 

Thanks, but I'm actually referring to a situation where someone else
has already edited the document, and I need to find out ow the
document was before that person edited it. So this document was
already in the hands of two other people at least before me.

On 9/4/20, Bob Kennedy <intheshop@...> wrote:

Any time I plan to make chanbges, I make a working copy. One copy will never
be changed and I'll work through the other. This way if anything gets lost,
deleted or whatever, I can go back to the beginning. On Friday,
September 4, 2020, 05:21:15 PM EDT, skylar covich <covich7@...> wrote:


Hello,

JAWS 2020, Word 2016. I'm working with a potential employer who gave
me a sample document to work on editing. There are revisions placed in
the document which may need to be reverted if they are wrong. I know
how to delete a revision or reject the change, but in order to reject
the change I need to know what was in the original document. What's
the best way to compare the revision with the original document using
JAWS?
Skylar







--
Skylar J. Covich, Ph.D., Political Science


Re: are their any tutorials for outlook 2016

 

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Conscdering that I was able to get a fully edited transcript turned around on an AppleVis podcast in a few days, I'd say they are not working very hard to make it happen. We make noprofit off of anything we do. The going rate for professional transcription is roughly $75 an audio hour. I guess we now know how little equal access is worth monitarily. Quite sad, isn't it? I've also noticed Hadley doesn't have an issue providing them either.

Scott



On Sep 4, 2020, at 1:37 PM, heather albright <kd5cbl@...> wrote:

Yes I remember freedom ?saying ?they were trying to provide transcrips at the convention. They were hoping to have them done by nov. These wer not transcribed yet. Thanks, for the info. I downloaded them and can listen to them with media player. Heather

?

Sent from for Windows 10

?

From: larrygassman1@...
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] are their any tutorials for outlook 2016

?

Vispero was working on including transcripts for training webinars, but I don’t know if they’ve begun to release them yet.

A check of the Freedom Scientific web page should tell you.

Larry

?

?

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 8:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] are their any tutorials for outlook 2016

?

Ah, sorry that I somehow missed that. I know that Freedom Scientific offers transcripts for their podcasts but I'm unsure if they do the same for their archived webinars. I doubt that Brian Hartgen offers them.

?

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
?

On 9/4/2020 11:46 AM, Scott Davert wrote:

Hi David.

Heather was asking for written tutorials. Do you know if any of these audio tutorialss have transcripts?

?

Thanks for the info!

Scott

?


On Sep 4, 2020, at 11:41 AM, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@...> wrote:

Heather,

sells two tutorials covering the use of Outlook. I am not certain if they are more applicable to Outlook 2013 but most of the material should be relevant. I have heard that he talks about navigating with shift-tab to move from the list of messages to the list of folders. In later versions of Outlook this has changed to control-shift-tab.

Freedom Scientific released a three-part series of webinars covering Outlook 2016 as well as a skill-building webinar for that same version. There is also a webinar on Outlook from August of 2019. You can from the above link.

?

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
?

On 9/4/2020 11:20 AM, heather albright wrote:

Hello, I wanted to learn outlook 2016. I have been using the mail app with windows10. Just wondering if there is a written tutorials for 2016 that I can use. Thanks very much. Heather

?

Sent from for Windows 10

?

?

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Re: outlook

 

Hi Walter.
I assume you are using f7? I've not used that method in quite awhile, but am not having issues with the other method. If you press Insert z to turn Quick Keys on, you can then press m to jump from mistake to mistake. When a misspelled word is found, press the Applications key or Shift F10 to bring up a list of suggestions and press enter to make the change. If you are using NVDA, I'm sorry, I do not have an answer for you.

I hope this helps,
Scott

On Sep 4, 2020, at 9:59 PM, Viola <firekat72@...> wrote:

You have to tab to the change button then it will.

Viola


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Walter Harper
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] outlook

Hello all,
I am working with office 365. When I go to check spelling while sending a
email outlook is not correcting the spelling. In the suggestion list it
will tell you what the correct spelling is but it will not make the correct
change.
Walter







Re: outlook

 

You have to tab to the change button then it will.

Viola

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Walter Harper
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] outlook

Hello all,
I am working with office 365. When I go to check spelling while sending a
email outlook is not correcting the spelling. In the suggestion list it
will tell you what the correct spelling is but it will not make the correct
change.
Walter


outlook

 

Hello all,
I am working with office 365. When I go to check spelling while sending a
email outlook is not correcting the spelling. In the suggestion list it
will tell you what the correct spelling is but it will not make the correct
change.
Walter


Re: What Software/Versions On A New Computer?

Sweeks
 

I am another who has benefited from this wonderful tip. Thank you so much. I joined the group today, and it's already paid off! Thanks again.

Blessings
Susan


Re: Track Changes in Word 2016

 


Any time I plan to make chanbges, I make a working copy. One copy will never be changed and I'll work through the other. This way if anything gets lost, deleted or whatever, I can go back to the beginning.
On Friday, September 4, 2020, 05:21:15 PM EDT, skylar covich <covich7@...> wrote:


Hello,

JAWS 2020, Word 2016. I'm working with a potential employer who gave
me a sample document to work on editing. There are revisions placed in
the document which may need to be reverted if they are wrong. I know
how to delete a revision or reject the change, but in order to reject
the change I need to know what was in the original document. What's
the best way to compare the revision with the original document using
JAWS?
Skylar




Contacted JAWS Technical Support

 

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I was not able to figure out on my own how to get the Say Cap in JAWS 2020 with Microsoft Word 2016. So I did contact technical support for help. They were able to get this working correctly for me.

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Stanley

?


Track Changes in Word 2016

 

Hello,

JAWS 2020, Word 2016. I'm working with a potential employer who gave
me a sample document to work on editing. There are revisions placed in
the document which may need to be reverted if they are wrong. I know
how to delete a revision or reject the change, but in order to reject
the change I need to know what was in the original document. What's
the best way to compare the revision with the original document using
JAWS?
Skylar


Re: What Software/Versions On A New Computer?

 

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David…Well, I’ll be darn. I had no knowledge of the Alt Q command to go to such a search box. Thank you!!! Though I have been a JAWS user for several years, I just started using Office 365 and only joined this group a few days ago. I have spent the last couple of hours playing with and learning from this “Tell Me” box. I am pumped and eager to see what else I learn.

Cheryl

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 1:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] What Software/Versions On A New Computer?

?

Gary,

Your patience and tenacity in making the transition to Office 365 is commendable.

One tip that I'll share with both you as well as your wife is the Tell Me box, which you can use to look up and execute commands. Press alt+q and type in what you're looking for. As an example, in Word press alt-q and type "center" without the quotes. Pressing down arrow will give you a list of possible options, including one that reads something like, "center, control E." Not only does this tell you the keystroke but pressing enter will actually execute the command.

You can also enter words and obtain dictionary definitions for those words.

If your sighted wife is a mouse user tell her to look for the box on the ribbon that will either say "search" or "tell me what you want to do"

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David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
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On 9/4/2020 1:33 PM, Gary Ray wrote:

Gary Ray here.

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We recently took the plunge to MS 365 at our house.? My wife is sighted and uses her computer daily to earn money.? Comments below.

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I have Win 10, 2004 and JAWS 2020, August update.? Our last version of Office was 2010.

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My first comment is that? it is best to remove all parts of any previous Office product before taking the plunge to MS 365.

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My next comment is that we used our sighted computer guy to do all of the work involved with going to Win 10, 2004 and MS 365.?

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There are a lot of features in MS 365 that baffled me from the start.? I did discover that some of these features were just old features renamed.? There were other new features that are not anything that I wanted to have anything to do with.?

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What I wanted to do was do the same sorts of things I did using Office 2010.? Traditionally, I used Outlook, Word, Excel, and occasionally PowerPoint.

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Of course, these programs in MS 365 did not react and were not laid out like Office 2010.

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My challenge was to find out how to do all the things ?I used to do in Office 2010 in MS 365.

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So to get better acquainted with Outlook, I went to the Help system and search for Keyboard Shortcuts.? Wow, I thought, I am done!? Well, JAWS did not read the contents of the item I found in Help about Keyboard Shortcuts.? Crap!? This messed me up for almost a day.? Then I got the bright idea to try and copy the contents of the Help system file on Shortcuts to the clipboard and then stick it in a Word File.? That gave me a 60 page document.? Well, it was a little over whelming. So, I made a list of essential shortcuts I’d need to do most of the things I have done in Outlook for years.? I created a much smaller Word file and then went through the 60 page file and extracted the shortcuts I use all the time in email.

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I would have the smaller Word file open when I was using outlook.? Each time I needed a 365 shortcut keystroke, I’d refer to the smaller shortcut list.? I had done a pretty good job pulling out the essential shortcuts for the smaller shortcut list.? One problem I did have was that I found instances of there being 2 shortcuts for a given operation.? I had to try each one doing what I was trying to do in Outlook to see which one was what I needed to memorize.? The shorter file actually got even shorter because I would delete a shortcut that would not work for me.? There were also a couple of instances where I had to go back to the 60 page list and hunt something else out.

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There are instances in MS 365 where my original Outlook 2010 shortcuts actually worked.? That sure was a blessing.

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I have had to basically use the same process for each of the essential MS 365 programs I use.

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I will also note that in some cases, I just fumbled around executing things in applications menus and searched out things.

A good example of this is how to Save files to my hard drive in Word.? All I wanted to do was to Save a document to my hard drive.? So, I fumbled around and executed the Save AS item on the File Menu.? Well, it did not look like my old Save AS experience in Word 2010.? Then I discovered “Browse” in the context menu.? Well, my Save As dialogues looked like what I was used to in Word 2010 after I executed that item.

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It has not been a day at the beach learning this new system, but I make progress each day.? I have not had the urge to heave either of my 2 laptops against the wall in several days.

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I have also heard my sighted wife grumbling under her breath as she searches for the same sort of things so she can use MS 365.

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There are a couple of other points I want to make.? It is important to note that we started at Office 2010.? Someone else starting from Office 2016 will not have the same experiences.? My last point is that one must NEVER give up.? It is all about learning how to do the same things in different ways.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dena Polston
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] What Software/Versions On A New Computer?

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This is Dena and I'm planning the same soon. I would be very interested in the listers information.

Thank you.

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dpolston4@...

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Dena Polston

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eileen Scrivani via groups.io
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 11:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] What Software/Versions On A New Computer?

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Hi All,

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I have begun looking at new computers since my current Windows computer is over 7 years old. I will be using Jaws so I’m wondering about what software will work best with Jaws on a new Windows 10 system.

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So for starters, I am a MS Word user and am not sure if I need to be aware of any issues with the latest version of Word. I’m also not thrilled with what I understand in newer versions of Word of my personal documents being stored in the cloud. I want to keep my documents on my computer only. What should I buy so far as Word goes?

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Second I am not sure what the best email program for a jaws user is these days. I’m still using Windows Live Mail on my current system and know its no longer supported. What is the best program for all the basics of adding, deleting, & editing contacts, sending & saving attachments, and of course writing, editing and sending emails?

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I’m sure I’ll think of other questions as I continue looking at computer options.

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Thanks in advance for your input.

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Eileen