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Hi all. ?My husband and I have an office 365 subscription but he has all kinds of sounds in his outlook and word. I’m wondering why I don’t. I never turned the sounds off but they aren’t the same. How do I change that? Thanks in advance.

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Viola

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Hi. You can enable sounds by doing the following.

1. Press alt-F for the backstage view.

2. Press T for Options.

3. In the list of categories choose Ease of Access.

4. With the tab key navigate to the option for enabling sounds.

5. If you navigate with the tab key to the next option you can choose between a modern sound scheme and a classic sound scheme.

6. Navigate to Ok and press enter.

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019

On 9/17/2020 1:03 AM, Viola wrote:

Hi all. ?My husband and I have an office 365 subscription but he has all kinds of sounds in his outlook and word. I’m wondering why I don’t. I never turned the sounds off but they aren’t the same. How do I change that? Thanks in advance.

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Viola

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Where should I be to start this process?? I have the same sound issues.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

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Hi. You can enable sounds by doing the following.

1. Press alt-F for the backstage view.

2. Press T for Options.

3. In the list of categories choose Ease of Access.

4. With the tab key navigate to the option for enabling sounds.

5. If you navigate with the tab key to the next option you can choose between a modern sound scheme and a classic sound scheme.

6. Navigate to Ok and press enter.

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
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On 9/17/2020 1:03 AM, Viola wrote:

Hi all. ?My husband and I have an office 365 subscription but he has all kinds of sounds in his outlook and word. I’m wondering why I don’t. I never turned the sounds off but they aren’t the same. How do I change that? Thanks in advance.

?

Viola

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Open word

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jean
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 05:42
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

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Where should I be to start this process?? I have the same sound issues.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

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Hi. You can enable sounds by doing the following.

1. Press alt-F for the backstage view.

2. Press T for Options.

3. In the list of categories choose Ease of Access.

4. With the tab key navigate to the option for enabling sounds.

5. If you navigate with the tab key to the next option you can choose between a modern sound scheme and a classic sound scheme.

6. Navigate to Ok and press enter.

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
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On 9/17/2020 1:03 AM, Viola wrote:

Hi all. ?My husband and I have an office 365 subscription but he has all kinds of sounds in his outlook and word. I’m wondering why I don’t. I never turned the sounds off but they aren’t the same. How do I change that? Thanks in advance.

?

Viola

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Anywhere in an Office document should work, just wherever?you can access the File tab.
Devin Prater
sent from Gmail.


On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:42 AM Jean <jmarcleyhaha@...> wrote:

Where should I be to start this process?? I have the same sound issues.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

?

Hi. You can enable sounds by doing the following.

1. Press alt-F for the backstage view.

2. Press T for Options.

3. In the list of categories choose Ease of Access.

4. With the tab key navigate to the option for enabling sounds.

5. If you navigate with the tab key to the next option you can choose between a modern sound scheme and a classic sound scheme.

6. Navigate to Ok and press enter.

David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
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On 9/17/2020 1:03 AM, Viola wrote:

Hi all.? My husband and I have an office 365 subscription but he has all kinds of sounds in his outlook and word. I’m wondering why I don’t. I never turned the sounds off but they aren’t the same. How do I change that? Thanks in advance.

?

Viola

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*For example, Microsoft 365 now supports the use of office sounds in the office products.

If you wish to turn on the office sounds in your Microsoft 365 subscription, do the following.

1. Open word 2016.

2. Either press Enter on the blank document button, or press the Escape key to open a blank document, or if you are not using the Word start screen, you are already placed in a blank document.

*Tip, using Jaws 2020, you land on the blank document button on the start screen of Word 2016, Just Press Enter.

3. Press ALT+F, followed by pressing the letter T, opens word options.

4. Down arrow and highlight Ease of Access.

5. Tab to, Provide feedback with sound checkbox, press the Spacebar to check, I have this checked.

6. Tab again to, Provide feedback with animation check box not checked, if you have some site, you may still leave this checked I believe, I have this unchecked.

7. Tab to the OK button, press Enter.

8. You will now have office sounds for Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint and other Microsoft products.

*Tip, You will also see under the Ease of Access, Show the Start screen when this application starts check box checked, press the Spacebar to uncheck this if you do not wish to see the start screen when you open word 2016, I have this checked.

*Tip, when you first open word 2016 using the Start screen, just tab four times to see a list of all your word documents.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Devin Prater
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

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Anywhere in an Office document should work, just wherever?you can access the File tab.

Devin Prater

sent from Gmail.

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:42 AM Jean <jmarcleyhaha@...> wrote:

Where should I be to start this process?? I have the same sound issues.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

?

Hi. You can enable sounds by doing the following.

1. Press alt-F for the backstage view.

2. Press T for Options.

3. In the list of categories choose Ease of Access.

4. With the tab key navigate to the option for enabling sounds.

5. If you navigate with the tab key to the next option you can choose between a modern sound scheme and a classic sound scheme.

6. Navigate to Ok and press enter.

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

On 9/17/2020 1:03 AM, Viola wrote:

Hi all.? My husband and I have an office 365 subscription but he has all kinds of sounds in his outlook and word. I’m wondering why I don’t. I never turned the sounds off but they aren’t the same. How do I change that? Thanks in advance.

?

Viola

?


--
Feel free to visit the moderator's Web site


 

开云体育

*For example, Microsoft 365 now supports the use of office sounds in the office products.

If you wish to turn on the office sounds in your Microsoft 365 subscription, do the following.

1. Open word 2016.

2. Either press Enter on the blank document button, or press the Escape key to open a blank document, or if you are not using the Word start screen, you are already placed in a blank document.

*Tip, using Jaws 2020, you land on the blank document button on the start screen of Word 2016, Just Press Enter.

3. Press ALT+F, followed by pressing the letter T, opens word options.

4. Down arrow and highlight Ease of Access.

5. Tab to, Provide feedback with sound checkbox, press the Spacebar to check, I have this checked.

6. Tab again to, Provide feedback with animation check box not checked, if you have some site, you may still leave this checked I believe, I have this unchecked.

7. Tab to the OK button, press Enter.

8. You will now have office sounds for Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint and other Microsoft products.

*Tip, You will also see under the Ease of Access, Show the Start screen when this application starts check box checked, press the Spacebar to uncheck this if you do not wish to see the start screen when you open word 2016, I have this checked.

*Tip, when you first open word 2016 using the Start screen, just tab four times to see a list of all your word documents.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of gbmagoo@...
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

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Open word

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Follow 诲补惫颈诲’蝉 info on how to below

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jean
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 05:42
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

?

Where should I be to start this process?? I have the same sound issues.

?

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] 365 and sounds.

?

Hi. You can enable sounds by doing the following.

1. Press alt-F for the backstage view.

2. Press T for Options.

3. In the list of categories choose Ease of Access.

4. With the tab key navigate to the option for enabling sounds.

5. If you navigate with the tab key to the next option you can choose between a modern sound scheme and a classic sound scheme.

6. Navigate to Ok and press enter.

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

On 9/17/2020 1:03 AM, Viola wrote:

Hi all. ?My husband and I have an office 365 subscription but he has all kinds of sounds in his outlook and word. I’m wondering why I don’t. I never turned the sounds off but they aren’t the same. How do I change that? Thanks in advance.

?

Viola

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