Adrian, Well put. You are more eloquent than me. Dave Carlson San Francisco Bay Area semi-retired sales engineer, Farfar, musician, and woodworker. dgcarlson@...

To elaborate on one of your points, Kevin, the shortcuts familiar to long-time users of Word, such as Jean, still work in MS applications that have migrated to the ribbon. I rarely need to use the

The virtual ribbon, which is part of JAWS and not Microsoft, attempts to emulate the old familiar menus we used before the ribbons came out. Problem I have with them is that first-letter navigation

Hello Jean, It is not a dumb question 12 months ago I had no idea either, and perhaps I still don't, lol. When using the virtual ribbon one arrows around through the various menus to find the item one

virtual ribbons is a JAWS method to allow a user to use menu style commands rather than the ribbons in newer Windows programs. hth

Rather a dumb question, but I don't understand the difference between the virtual ribbon and the ribbon. Can you please explain?

Unless you are going to use a touch screen I would go with Seven Opinions on Windows Eight seem to range from it's the worse o/s ever. To It wonderful and is the greatest o/s since the beginning of

If you want to get skype script you can go to http//:www.dlee.org then find the skype version 6.1 with jaws 15 to download the skype script !! O. Addison Gethers oag1rotttie@... Facebook

And some of the better training I've seen comes from our own li'l ole HJ. I think it came out with JAWS 10.

Ditto to Dave's reccomendation, you will be glad in the long run,using the ribbon.

Hello all, Does anyone have any help files on using the Windows Fax and Scan program that they would care to share with me? Using Win/7 HP and Jaws 15, and also Kurzweil 13. Thanks, Morey

Hi folks. I'm using jaws 15 and have just downloaded skype 6.1. I've also downloaded the executabble file of scripts. I've never used skype before, so can somebody tell me what I need to to and

Dan, My recommendation is to forget all about the virtual ribbon, and become proficient with the ribbon. In the long run it will be beneficial. That is what I have found. Dave Carlson Sent from my

Hello all. I'm having trouble getting the virtual ribbon to work in Outlook 2007 with JAWS 15. I had trouble getting it to work in word. I had to play around with collapsing and expanding the

Hi, I will wait until the next version of Windows 9 or 10 is released. By that time all bugs experienced in Win 8 should have been resolved. Charles

I agree. I'm not sure why allot of people are so unhappy with windows8. Its nice and the new settings pains and the new refresh and reset options are just to our advantage. Sent from my iPhone

Been using Windows 8 for over a year. I'm hesitant to go to Windows 8.1. I suppose if it is already loaded, that might be OK. I've heard too many people, however, who have tried to update their

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Hi, Everyone. Subject line asks it all. I went to the Archive page and see the ability to view messages, but don't come across a search box. Am I missing something? Thanks, Dani --------------

I skipped over Windows 7 and went ti Win8, then 8.1, based on advice from several sources. The learning curve with 8 is IMHO significant but not insurmountable. The major problem with Win 8 is the