[vip_students] Re: how to accept track changes?
- From: Christina McCarthy <mccarc15@xxxxxx>
- To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:18:50 +0000
Thanks a million Paul!
On 21/03/2013, Eleanor Burke <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Paul
> I do not use JAWS but Supernova which is useless at reading track changes,
> however, it does read them of a sort. Now I am wondering, as I would like
> to be able to use track changes when proof reading for someone, so if you
> could give a tutorial on this from the Microsoft Word 2003 perspective
> rather than the screen reader options, I would appreciate that. What I am
> looking for is information first of all on turning on track changes and then
>
> every time I want to make a comment, how I would do this going through a
> long document. Finall I can review my changes myself using Supernova of a
> fashon.
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>> Hi Christina,
>>
>> Here is a short article written up by someone, maybe it will help you
>> some.
>>
>> The "Track Changes" option in Microsoft Word allows revisions, and their
>> authors, to be tracked. This is very helpful if a document is edited by
>> multiple people. This option is also frequently used when instructors
>> grade
>> student documents. The document is written as normal. Before the document
>>
>> is
>> revised the "Track Changes" option in the Review Tab is turned on. This
>> can
>> also be done by pressing Alt + R, G, and G. Any changes that are made to
>> the
>> document are shown in red and information on the change and its author
>> are
>> displayed in the right margin. Word has no problem with you tracking the
>> changes on your own documents, so you will be able to explore this
>> yourself.
>>
>> I am sure that you have noticed that "Track Changes", with its variety of
>> colors and notes in the document margin seems visual, or JAWS unfriendly.
>> Fortunately, there are just a few extra steps you will have to go through
>>
>> to
>> make JAWS happy with tracking changes.
>>
>> You can turn on JAWS verbosity for "Track Changes." You need to do the
>> following:
>>
>> .Launch Microsoft Word.
>> .Press Insert + V.
>> .Move down the Verbosity Dialog Box until you find "Track Changes"
>> .You can cycle through off, speak type, speak type plus count, speak type
>> and author, speak type and author plus count, speak type author and date,
>> and speak type author date plus count by pressing the spacebar.
>>
>> Tab to Close.
>>
>> .Press Enter.
>> Once you have turned on one of the "Track Changes" verbosity options,
>> JAWS
>> will list information every time you read or edit a document when the MS
>> Word, "Track Changes", option is checked.
>>
>> You can also interact with "Track Changes" using the "Revisions" feature
>> of
>> JAWS. Once you have opened a document with tracked changes press Insert +
>> Shift + R. JAWS will create a list of the revisions in the current
>> document.
>> This list will contain all of the "Track Changes" information for each
>> revision. You can just go down the list and select a change you would
>> like
>> to look at more closely and select "OK". JAWS will skip down to the
>> location
>> of that revision.
>>
>> The track changes options are becoming an important way for multiple
>> authors
>> or instructors and students to communicate editing information in a
>> document. Hopefully, this short article will help the JAWS user take
>> advantage of these options.
>>
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