Thanks for the ideas Mary and Pam. I had not thought about putting my typed recipes in to Dropbox. I like that idea. I'll play with all of your ideas. What got me thinking about this was a podcast I w

Here's another note. I also have an HP laptop and, in addition to that missing application key, the F1 through Insert Keys don’t' work as I need them to. I haven't gotten to having someone try to chan

Hi, Even though I have a laptop, I sometimes plug in my old desktop speakers to have a little better sound quality or volume when working. These old speakers are on the fritz. What is the current tren

Another way I have done this kind of project is the following. 1. Save a copy of your full scanned book so you have a backup copy. 2. In a new copy, move to the end of that first section you want to c

Thanks all. Interesting to think about the headphone jack comment from Bill. It hadn’t occurred to me about the way that jack my be set.

I am a recent convert to JAWS from Window Eyes and I have found the same to be true with Excel 2010 on my home computer. I am a bit worried about putting JAWS on my work laptop and having this also be

Two things to try: First, on the file menu, I believe there is a “save all attachments” option for the message you are in. Similarly, if you Shit Tab to the Attachments button in the message, then rig

I work with SharePoint 2013 at my company as both a visitor to pages and as an editor and contributor. We are still on Windows 7 and Office 2010. I’m also still waiting for JAWS to be installed on my

Hi, I’m playing with getting JAWS to stop saying Control, Tab, and Alt by removing the key label, as previously suggested on this list. That seems to be working, but I could not find an entry for Alt.

Net bat, This is exactly what I did of r the Tab and Control keys, but I could not find the Alt Key in the list. Maybe I can find it if I look through the list of labels, not the list of keys. That wi

I have noticed with both of my installations of JAWS 2018 (one on Windows 7 and one on Win 10) that JAWS does not announce the status of Caps lock on and off as I press the button. This became particu

As a P.S. to this question, I now see that, caps lock does not even work as a true caps lock. I do have JAWS to use caps lock as a modifier key. Does this mean that I lose the functionality of caps lo

Ok, this is a strange observation. I just accidentally pressed alt caps lock and now hear it announcing Caps lock on and caps lock off with the corresponded behavior as I type. Wow. Never would have g

Net bat, You and I are both using desktop layout and pressing the alt key activates caps lock. Another person mentioned pressing caps lock twice, which mustbe be the method in laptop layout, as that d

I have become very attached to the way that Window Eyes lets me move from spelling error to spelling error within the Word document or email with a keystroke. I much prefer this to the spelling checki

Shannon and Cathianne, You both have given me hope! Thanks for taking the time to explain the options. I’m going to have to get better about nailing the right function keys to get efficient, but at le

Well you can create your own. I think both the Blind Side podcast and a podcast called “Eyes on Success” both have episode talking about the process for making your own podcast. You’ll want to decide

Please point me in the right direction. I recently got JAWS installed on my Windows 7 laptop for work. I’ve been playing with the voice I want to use and the speed I like. When I hit Control Alt Delet

It does have print view, depending on your default zoom level, I find it will often slip back into displaying pages side by side. Even if I got to the View ribbon and click the button to view only one

Hi all, I have a couple programs at work that do not work well with speech. In Window-Eyes I could put the mouse pointer to the top left of the program window or dialog box, then arrow down to read so