[duxuser] Fw: Microsoft Word no longer available, and Open Office Writer not as friendly with Jaws
- From: "Douglas Richard Dexheimer" <drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:29:57 -0600
I've used Microsoft Word to import documents to Duxbury for braille
transcription, but as noted below, Word is no longer opperating on my
system, and an alternate called Open Office Writer is not as cooperative
with my screenreader. I sent this to the Freedom Scientific support team
for their input, and thought you might have some suggestions also. Thanks.
Douglas Richard Dexheimer
Chief of Braille Production
Born Again Productions
Friedman Place Room #308
5527 N. Maplewood Avenue
Chicago, Il 60625
(773) - 409 - 6163
drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Richard Dexheimer" <drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <whistles73@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 5:43 AM
Subject: Microsoft Word no longer available, and Open Office Writer not
as friendly with Jaws
For your information, I no longer have Microsoft Word working on my system,
so it's too late to try out your suggestions. The other night I installed
something called Ninite Net to update various applications, and when I tried
opening a Word document from the My Documents folder yesterday morning, I
was promted to enter an activation key for Word 2007, which obviously was
already installed but I wasn't using; I was using 2003, professional
edition. We tried deleting 2007 with Add/Remove Programs, but 2003 went
away with it; when we tried reinstalling Word 2003 we were told the file
couldn't be found. We contacted Microsoft and, after discussing finding the
CD from which I had installed Word 2003, found out they no longer carry a
replacement of the Microsoft Word product, and besides, it wasn't free.
Yesterday we downloaded Open Office, which we discovered was free, but
didn't find it as accessible with Jaws as Word. For instance, some of the
special control characters don't work in Find/Replace, such as caret p for
paragraph mark, caret l for line, caret t for tab, etc., which were
accessible in Word. This makes it a lot harder to edit and iron out
unwanted blanks in a document using Open Office Writer. When I go to the
alt+h Help menu in Open Office and try to select and read the About dialog
or any other Help window, I find the dialog or menu interwoven with the
running text file I opened. This makes it harder to check which version of
Open Office I'm running at the moment.
Is there a way to recover the use of Microsoft Word on my computer with
minimal expense, or can an alternate word processor be suggested that will
have the special accessibility features Word did? Thanks for your continued
help and support. Hear from you some time today or tomorrow.
Douglas Richard Dexheimer
Chief of Braille Production
Born Again Productions
Friedman Place Room #308
5527 N. Maplewood Avenue
Chicago, Il 60625
(773) - 409 - 6163
drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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