John,

          Thanks for your response.   To my knowledge there is no such thing as an add-on (or equivalent) for JAWS.

          I did not ask VFO JAWS Support because my track record with getting answers to anything other than questions on installation or runtime problems with JAWS has been less than stellar.  That's why I asked here first.
--
Brian

         A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

                  ~ William James

If this isn’t the correct group for this please let me know.

Has anyone installed the Insiders previe w of the Creator’s update successfully? I have attempted three times and in all three occasions the install froze at about the 85% mark. The update was downloaded via the normal update process three times.

Any help would be appreciated.               

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

If this isn’t the correct group for this please let me know.

Has anyone installed the Insiders previe w of the Creator’s update successfully? I have attempted three times and in all three occasions the install froze at about the 85% mark. The update was downloaded via the normal update process three times.

Any help would be appreciated.               

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Hi Sharon,

Try this:

1.       Open your music folder

2.       Do not select anything

3.       Press application key or shift+F10

4.       Arrow down to sort submenu open and chose more

5.       Choose from the list as to what you want displayed by checking check box

6.       Tab to okay

7.       Done

Hi Brian,

For some reason I still haven’t figured out how I can change it so a music folder shows me things like file size, file type, date and so on instead of artist, album etc. This is in Windows 10, if you could explain I’d be grateful.

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 8:42 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Win 10 vs Win7 with Jaws

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 07:39 pm, Sharon wrote:

I can't get the folder view to be the same across folders; some show detail view; some list view; no consistency as to which columns show!

"Global" control of folder views is not very much different than it has been for decades now and is accessed through the File Explorer Options Dialog, AKA the Folder Options dialog, by invoking it from within File Explorer after you've set the view as you want it for the top level folder under which you'd like all subfolders to appear the same way.

First tweak your view as you'd like it to be at the top level folder that is to be used as the "master view" and where all subfolders under that folder are to look the same.  Hit ALT+V,Y,O  [View Tab/Ribbon, Options Group, Change folder and search options].  In the Options dialog that appears, in the General tab that opens, you can choose whether File Explorer opens with Quick Access at the top of the folder list or This PC in that position.  For those who like the old "My Computer" layout choose "This PC" from the "Open File Explorer to:" dropdown.  Then, since you've already set up the view that you want used as the "master view" in the folder you're working on, activate the View tab and then the Apply to Folders button.  Then you will be presented with a dialog box asking, "Do you want all folders of this type to match this folder's view settings?," and you will activate the "Yes" button if you want your current view applied or "No" if you realize you need to tweak something else.

Note carefully that the question says "folders of this type" so, if you're working on a regular folder this will apply only to regular folders, not those using the Windows conventions for Photos, Music, Videos, etc.  If you want those to be changed you need to repeat this process in a folder of the type you want to use as the "master view" for that type of folder.

I don't have my Windows 7 laptop at hand, but I've dealt with this particular dialog many times over the decades and it still seems very similar, if not identical.
--
Brian

         A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

                  ~ William James

Hi Brian,

For some reason I still haven’t figured out how I can change it so a music folder shows me things like file size, file type, date and so on instead of artist, album etc. This is in Windows 10, if you could explain I’d be grateful.

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 8:42 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Win 10 vs Win7 with Jaws

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 07:39 pm, Sharon wrote:

I can't get the folder view to be the same across folders; some show detail view; some list view; no consistency as to which columns show!

"Global" control of folder views is not very much different than it has been for decades now and is accessed through the File Explorer Options Dialog, AKA the Folder Options dialog, by invoking it from within File Explorer after you've set the view as you want it for the top level folder under which you'd like all subfolders to appear the same way.

First tweak your view as you'd like it to be at the top level folder that is to be used as the "master view" and where all subfolders under that folder are to look the same.  Hit ALT+V,Y,O  [View Tab/Ribbon, Options Group, Change folder and search options].  In the Options dialog that appears, in the General tab that opens, you can choose whether File Explorer opens with Quick Access at the top of the folder list or This PC in that position.  For those who like the old "My Computer" layout choose "This PC" from the "Open File Explorer to:" dropdown.  Then, since you've already set up the view that you want used as the "master view" in the folder you're working on, activate the View tab and then the Apply to Folders button.  Then you will be presented with a dialog box asking, "Do you want all folders of this type to match this folder's view settings?," and you will activate the "Yes" button if you want your current view applied or "No" if you realize you need to tweak something else.

Note carefully that the question says "folders of this type" so, if you're working on a regular folder this will apply only to regular folders, not those using the Windows conventions for Photos, Music, Videos, etc.  If you want those to be changed you need to repeat this process in a folder of the type you want to use as the "master view" for that type of folder.

I don't have my Windows 7 laptop at hand, but I've dealt with this particular dialog many times over the decades and it still seems very similar, if not identical.
--
Brian

         A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

                  ~ William James

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 06:25 am, Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) wrote:

I guess you could call the ribbon a collection of menus, you just access them a bit differently.

They're actually just a slight reinterpretation of the menu-submenu structure such that the most commonly used features of the most commonly used submenus are visible at all times for "point and click" convenience.

The tabs for each ribbon are exactly analogous to a menu invocation and are all accessed via ALT plus appropriate letter.

The ribbon itself contains the old menu items (as groupings) and submenu items (as individual controls within groupings), but as though the submenu items were always expanded.  If you wish to move from what used to be menu item to menu item, now grouping to grouping, you use CTRL plus Right Arrow or Left Arrow, depending on whether you wish to go forward/right/down (depending on how you wish to think about it) or backward/left/up.  Once you've arrived at the group you wish to use, TAB or SHIFT plus TAB moves you forward or backward through the individual controls for that group and, eventually, out of that group if you keep going.  If you overshoot a simple TAB or SHIFT plus TAB will move you back into the control group you wanted to be in.n

The concept is precisely the same.  Ribbons are just a variant on the theme and the keystrokes to navigate them are slightly different.  Once you drop the idea that the arrow keys are your primary navigation keys and adjust to the correct ones for ribbons they become very easy to use (or at least no harder to use than menus).
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Brian

         A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

                  ~ William James