The office installation went fine, but a little squirrelly. In the middle of the WWV sequence (I know we have some hams in the house) if rebooted. Upon returning, we went through the installation

Find the Jaws icon on your desktop. Press ALT+ENTER to enter its properties dialog. Tab until you reach the hotkey field. Press the hotkey you wish to use to launch Jaws. Then close the

Hello Kimmer; One press of the f6key should land you on the status bar, Another press should land on the upper ribbon, Another press back to the document pane, the opened document Is your screen

Hmm, not sure why it doesn't do that for me. -- Kimberly

Markette: Use the JAWS command INSERT/JAWS KEY+SPACE BAR, followed by "S", without the quotes to mute JAWS. Use the same JAWS command sequence to unmute JAWS. I use the above JAWS command to

Hello there; I absolutely agree with your thoughts. Never, never, never, never, Will I use the update feature in the jaws options/help. I've had to many issues. I download from the fs site, install

Dondi, Usually when you install JAWS the shortcut is automatically assigned to your desktop shortcut. What happens if you press Ctrl+Alt+J? Does it bring up the JAWS dialog? Then unload JAWS with

Hi, There are two advantages: 1. Sleep Mode only applies to specific applications (unless you've applied it to the default file, of course). As such, if a window from another application pops up

I *never* use the automatic download. Too risky. Always, always, always, download the executable file directly from the web site and save it to your hard disc drive, and then launch it from

Hello there; Go to desktop, Highlight the version of jaws which you want to create shortcut key, Now press alt+enter=properties, Now tab until you hear; Shortcut none, Type the letter j, Press

Hi, Deb wrote: "I can not seem to get the some Punctuation to stay in quick settings in basics." Press your applications key (or SHIFT+F10) when focussed on the option in Quick Settings. You should

I tried the direct download. It said "configuring system for JAWS" and started ticking. It never stopped ticking for an extremely long time. I turned the pc off, and when I turned it on again, JAWS

Hi, How do you setup this shortcut key combination of control+alt+J to start JAWS? I'm using JAWS 12 with Windows 7. Thanks, Dondi

HI If you put Jaws to sleep for a game, for example, you can still hear other things that might be happening on the computer such as Instant Messages etc. Marsha

Marsha, How about Insert+Spacebar, then the letter "S"? Just remember to do it again to turn it back on. Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7, San Francisco Bay Area

Kimber, Pressing f6 more than once should route it through 2 or 3 different panes, including the status bar, document area, and ribbon. Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7,

I am confused. I did that, and it appears that JAWS will put the braille driver to sleep, but what I want to stop is the speech. I want to mute the synthesizer, but keep the braille.

Brilliant! Never used any of those applications/items. I keep forgetting about Braille. Sorry about that.

Hi, How do you get JAWS to read the line numbers if you had line numbers on? And I have Word 2010 and I don't see any option for bullets only numbers is that a option? I'm using JAWS 12. Dondi

Ed, One thing that putting JAWS to sleep allows one to do is to use a braille display without speech. This is useful in a program like Kurzweil or a braille translator.