It’s a shared document in  a folder and both internet explorer and firefox hav the same problems with focus.

Hi all,

 

I have the latest version of Firefox, Windows 8.1, and the latest Jaws 17 update. I’ve read all the documentation pertaining to Google docs and Google Drive, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get either Docs or Sheets to be in focus after I open them. In sheets, I land up in an edit field labeled explore, and through a combination of turning the virtual cursor off, entering forms mode and exiting it, and alt-tabbing, I can usually get the document to be in focus so I can read and edit it, but it sometimes takes me ten minutes. This is extremely frustrating, since I just started a new job. If at all possible, I’d like to avoid having to download the doc in excel and re-upload it. I also unfortunately  can’t use Cloud hq and synch google sheets to dropbox because if another person is editing the document, my changes don’t get synced to the document and instead, a new doc is created.

 

Any help with this would be incredibly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Tasha

How do I take myself out of form mode?

Thank you for the answer!

mark

On Feb 25, 2016, at 7:37 AM, Shane Davidson <shane.davidson@...> wrote:

Take yourself out of forms mode and read the page with arrow keys.
I just finished filing taxes under this situation with the same setup and that's how I got it done.
Shane
On 2/25/2016 7:25 AM, Mark Furness wrote:

For years I have always used Turbo tax to do my income tax.
Now when I tab to go to the next question sometimes it does not say what the question is,  if it is a check box, I hear yes or no, but for what I could not find out.
Routing the jaws or invisible to the PC the screen could not be read. Doing an OCR would not read the question.
All these problems might be caused because I am now running windows 10, with the latest and greatest version of Jaws17. This is the only explaination I have at this time.
If anyone has a suggestion how to fix this problem I would  greatly appreciate it!!!

Mark

On Feb 25, 2016, at 7:37 AM, Shane Davidson <shane.davidson@...> wrote:

Take yourself out of forms mode and read the page with arrow keys.
I just finished filing taxes under this situation with the same setup and that's how I got it done.
Shane
On 2/25/2016 7:25 AM, Mark Furness wrote:

For years I have always used Turbo tax to do my income tax.
Now when I tab to go to the next question sometimes it does not say what the question is,  if it is a check box, I hear yes or no, but for what I could not find out.
Routing the jaws or invisible to the PC the screen could not be read. Doing an OCR would not read the question.
All these problems might be caused because I am now running windows 10, with the latest and greatest version of Jaws17. This is the only explaination I have at this time.
If anyone has a suggestion how to fix this problem I would  greatly appreciate it!!!

Mark

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:27 am, Carolyn Arnold <4carolyna@...> wrote:

Shift-Control-G.

 . . . invokes the same Word Count Dialog that I made reference to with ALT+R,W.   As per usual, there are about 100 ways to do the same thing in Windows and Windows programs.

I'm curious where and when you learned this shortcut?   There are tons of these that exist that range from not well documented to completely undocumented.  This one pops up on a number of web pages, and a really good one from Microsoft involving keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Windows programs is entitled, Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Office Word.  It covers some keyboard shortcuts applicable outside of MS-Word as well.

Brian

P.S. to Ted:  That keystroke sequence I gave invokes precisely the option under the Review ribbon to which you've made reference.  It's just the "direct line" there.

For years I have always used Turbo tax to do my income tax.
Now when I tab to go to the next question sometimes it does not say what the question is, if it is a check box, I hear yes or no, but for what I could not find out.
Routing the jaws or invisible to the PC the screen could not be read. Doing an OCR would not read the question.
All these problems might be caused because I am now running windows 10, with the latest and greatest version of Jaws17. This is the only explaination I have at this time.
If anyone has a suggestion how to fix this problem I would greatly appreciate it!!!

Mark

Hi I am planning on purchasing the jaws 17 upgrade along with my sma, and was wondering if I was to download jaws 17 and installed it, would I have to uninstall and reinstall after I purchased the upgrade along with the sma? Or could I leave it installed and update the licence.

Kenny Peyatt jr.

Hi all,

 

I have the latest version of Firefox, Windows 8.1, and the latest Jaws 17 update. I’ve read all the documentation pertaining to Google docs and Google Drive, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get either Docs or Sheets to be in focus after I open them. In sheets, I land up in an edit field labeled explore, and through a combination of turning the virtual cursor off, entering forms mode and exiting it, and alt-tabbing, I can usually get the document to be in focus so I can read and edit it, but it sometimes takes me ten minutes. This is extremely frustrating, since I just started a new job. If at all possible, I’d like to avoid having to download the doc in excel and re-upload it. I also unfortunately  can’t use Cloud hq and synch google sheets to dropbox because if another person is editing the document, my changes don’t get synced to the document and instead, a new doc is created.

 

Any help with this would be incredibly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Tasha

Hi all,

 

I have the latest version of Firefox, Windows 8.1, and the latest Jaws 17 update. I’ve read all the documentation pertaining to Google docs and Google Drive, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get either Docs or Sheets to be in focus after I open them. In sheets, I land up in an edit field labeled explore, and through a combination of turning the virtual cursor off, entering forms mode and exiting it, and alt-tabbing, I can usually get the document to be in focus so I can read and edit it, but it sometimes takes me ten minutes. This is extremely frustrating, since I just started a new job. If at all possible, I’d like to avoid having to download the doc in excel and re-upload it. I also unfortunately  can’t use Cloud hq and synch google sheets to dropbox because if another person is editing the document, my changes don’t get synced to the document and instead, a new doc is created.

 

Any help with this would be incredibly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Tasha

Hi all,

 

I have the latest version of Firefox, Windows 8.1, and the latest Jaws 17 update. I’ve read all the documentation pertaining to Google docs and Google Drive, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get either Docs or Sheets to be in focus after I open them. In sheets, I land up in an edit field labeled explore, and through a combination of turning the virtual cursor off, entering forms mode and exiting it, and alt-tabbing, I can usually get the document to be in focus so I can read and edit it, but it sometimes takes me ten minutes. This is extremely frustrating, since I just started a new job. If at all possible, I’d like to avoid having to download the doc in excel and re-upload it. I also unfortunately  can’t use Cloud hq and synch google sheets to dropbox because if another person is editing the document, my changes don’t get synced to the document and instead, a new doc is created.

 

Any help with this would be incredibly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Tasha

To find the Windows Classic Theme, arrow down to Windows7 Basic, & right arrow 1 time to Windows Classic & press enter.

 I have never seen either of these themes on a Windows 8 or Windows 10 machine.  Windows 7 Basic existed on all Windows 7 machines and Windows Classic on some.  The machine that Jim has is running Win8.1 64-bit.

Brian