moderated Trouble reading MS word documents
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Shirley Tracy
Hello everyone,
Are any of you beginning to have trouble reading documents in MS Word? Or is it just me?
I wrote an important letter to a company a few days ago, and I was trying to read it today to make some changes before sending it. I had trouble simply reading line by line. Did something change? Or am I in The Twilight Zone?
Shirley Tracy
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Jasmine Kotsay
Hi, Shirley, I have not noticed this, but when I try reading a document later, I will see what happens.
On Dec 23, 2020, at 8:53 AM, Shirley Tracy <shirleytracy16@...> wrote:
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Van Lant, Robin
I havent’ had the issue lately, but definitely have had that before, especially after making edits. You might try changing the view to Normal on the view ribbon to see if JAWS will refresh what it says. I havent’ tried this, but also wonder if turning on Quick keys with Insert Z might give better results.
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Hello everyone,
Are any of you beginning to have trouble reading documents in MS Word? Or is it just me?
I wrote an important letter to a company a few days ago, and I was trying to read it today to make some changes before sending it. I had trouble simply reading line by line. Did something change? Or am I in The Twilight Zone?
Shirley Tracy
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Adrian Spratt
Shirley,
Which version of JAWS are you using? Although I haven’t had this experience with Word, I am experiencing something similar with Outlook emails that I draft. I find that reverting from JAWS 2021 to 2020 restores reliable reading.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Shirley Tracy
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:53 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Trouble reading MS word documents
Hello everyone,
Are any of you beginning to have trouble reading documents in MS Word? Or is it just me?
I wrote an important letter to a company a few days ago, and I was trying to read it today to make some changes before sending it. I had trouble simply reading line by line. Did something change? Or am I in The Twilight Zone?
Shirley Tracy
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Shirley Tracy
I’m using JAWS 2021, but I’m thinking of sliding back into JAWS 2020 for this. Thanks.
Shirley Tracy
From: Adrian Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:31 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Trouble reading MS word documents
Shirley,
Which version of JAWS are you using? Although I haven’t had this experience with Word, I am experiencing something similar with Outlook emails that I draft. I find that reverting from JAWS 2021 to 2020 restores reliable reading.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Shirley Tracy
Hello everyone,
Are any of you beginning to have trouble reading documents in MS Word? Or is it just me?
I wrote an important letter to a company a few days ago, and I was trying to read it today to make some changes before sending it. I had trouble simply reading line by line. Did something change? Or am I in The Twilight Zone?
Shirley Tracy
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Richard B. McDonald
When reading/editing the document, is its window maximized?
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Shirley Tracy
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 8:53 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Trouble reading MS word documents
Hello everyone,
Are any of you beginning to have trouble reading documents in MS Word? Or is it just me?
I wrote an important letter to a company a few days ago, and I was trying to read it today to make some changes before sending it. I had trouble simply reading line by line. Did something change? Or am I in The Twilight Zone?
Shirley Tracy
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Tom Behler
I have noticed this too, just this morning.
I had to go in and set view to draft, and now all is ok again.
Also, this morning, when my e-mail downloaded, it was arranged in some sort of a weird view which was not readable by Jaws. Had to go in and manually change the view to descending order by date.
I suspect all of this might have been caused by yet another Microsoft 365 update.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jasmine Kotsay
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:20 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Trouble reading MS word documents
Hi, Shirley, I have not noticed this, but when I try reading a document later, I will see what happens.
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Jason White
I’ve been receiving regular Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) updates, with no problems of this kind at all. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I encountered any sort of Office 365 regression The bugs that affect me seem to stay around from one version to another.
I don’t know why some people are encountering issues and others aren’t – it’s probably related to very specific configurations.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Tom Behler <tombehler@...> I have noticed this too, just this morning.
I had to go in and set view to draft, and now all is ok again.
Also, this morning, when my e-mail downloaded, it was arranged in some sort of a weird view which was not readable by Jaws. Had to go in and manually change the view to descending order by date.
I suspect all of this might have been caused by yet another Microsoft 365 update.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jasmine Kotsay
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:20 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Trouble reading MS word documents
Hi, Shirley, I have not noticed this, but when I try reading a document later, I will see what happens.
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Tom Behler
Jason:
You might be right about this.
And, that makes problems harder to resolve, because not everyone has the same experiences.
Recently, for example, I’ve been having issues with my Outlook address books.
I’m now no longer able to navigate through and edit e-mail group lists, and I have had to figure out an alternate way to copy e-mail addresses from my address books when needed.
I’ve contacted Freedom Scientific about these issues, and they acknowledge them.
They say they are related to Microsoft 365 updates.
It’s very frustrating, to say the least.
It makes me wonder whether the Microsoft accessibility people ever collaborate with Freedom Scientific prior to releasing updates.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jason White via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 3:52 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Trouble reading MS word documents
I’ve been receiving regular Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) updates, with no problems of this kind at all. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I encountered any sort of Office 365 regression The bugs that affect me seem to stay around from one version to another.
I don’t know why some people are encountering issues and others aren’t – it’s probably related to very specific configurations.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Tom Behler <tombehler@...> I have noticed this too, just this morning.
I had to go in and set view to draft, and now all is ok again.
Also, this morning, when my e-mail downloaded, it was arranged in some sort of a weird view which was not readable by Jaws. Had to go in and manually change the view to descending order by date.
I suspect all of this might have been caused by yet another Microsoft 365 update.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jasmine Kotsay
Hi, Shirley, I have not noticed this, but when I try reading a document later, I will see what happens.
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Jason White
The changes are made available to Office Insiders for some time before release, so there’s certainly opportunity for any issues to be reported to Microsoft before a new version is offered publicly.
I don’t know how many screen reader users are actively testing and reporting any problems found, though.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Tom Behler <tombehler@...> Jason:
You might be right about this.
And, that makes problems harder to resolve, because not everyone has the same experiences.
Recently, for example, I’ve been having issues with my Outlook address books.
I’m now no longer able to navigate through and edit e-mail group lists, and I have had to figure out an alternate way to copy e-mail addresses from my address books when needed.
I’ve contacted Freedom Scientific about these issues, and they acknowledge them.
They say they are related to Microsoft 365 updates.
It’s very frustrating, to say the least.
It makes me wonder whether the Microsoft accessibility people ever collaborate with Freedom Scientific prior to releasing updates.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jason White via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 3:52 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Trouble reading MS word documents
I’ve been receiving regular Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) updates, with no problems of this kind at all. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I encountered any sort of Office 365 regression The bugs that affect me seem to stay around from one version to another.
I don’t know why some people are encountering issues and others aren’t – it’s probably related to very specific configurations.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Tom Behler <tombehler@...> I have noticed this too, just this morning.
I had to go in and set view to draft, and now all is ok again.
Also, this morning, when my e-mail downloaded, it was arranged in some sort of a weird view which was not readable by Jaws. Had to go in and manually change the view to descending order by date.
I suspect all of this might have been caused by yet another Microsoft 365 update.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jasmine Kotsay
Hi, Shirley, I have not noticed this, but when I try reading a document later, I will see what happens.
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Adrian Spratt
For the record, my new Outlook problem is with 2016, which doesn’t update via Microsoft. It could be a combination of changes in JAWS 2021 and MS 365, but in my case, I can blame only JAWS 2021.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Tom Behler
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 4:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Trouble reading MS word documents
Jason:
You might be right about this.
And, that makes problems harder to resolve, because not everyone has the same experiences.
Recently, for example, I’ve been having issues with my Outlook address books.
I’m now no longer able to navigate through and edit e-mail group lists, and I have had to figure out an alternate way to copy e-mail addresses from my address books when needed.
I’ve contacted Freedom Scientific about these issues, and they acknowledge them.
They say they are related to Microsoft 365 updates.
It’s very frustrating, to say the least.
It makes me wonder whether the Microsoft accessibility people ever collaborate with Freedom Scientific prior to releasing updates.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Jason White via groups.io
I’ve been receiving regular Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) updates, with no problems of this kind at all. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I encountered any sort of Office 365 regression The bugs that affect me seem to stay around from one version to another.
I don’t know why some people are encountering issues and others aren’t – it’s probably related to very specific configurations.
From:
main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Tom Behler <tombehler@...> I have noticed this too, just this morning.
I had to go in and set view to draft, and now all is ok again.
Also, this morning, when my e-mail downloaded, it was arranged in some sort of a weird view which was not readable by Jaws. Had to go in and manually change the view to descending order by date.
I suspect all of this might have been caused by yet another Microsoft 365 update.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Jasmine Kotsay
Hi, Shirley, I have not noticed this, but when I try reading a document later, I will see what happens.
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Shirley Tracy
Hi Everyone. Thanks to those of you who responded.
For the record, I’m using 2016. But I think I solved my own problem. I started getting “error” messages from MS (and one message that said “updating Office”. I don’t have a clue why I got them, especially the “updating” message). I then called Microsoft disability line and the woman was about to take over my computer when I was called away by an unavoidable interruption. Understand, I had already rebooted once with no change. When I finally got back to the computer, I rebooted again before calling Microsoft back. But the problem was gone! So, definitely something had gone wrong and, without my knowing how or why, is now fixed.
Shirley Tracy
From: Adrian Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 6:31 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Trouble reading MS word documents
For the record, my new Outlook problem is with 2016, which doesn’t update via Microsoft. It could be a combination of changes in JAWS 2021 and MS 365, but in my case, I can blame only JAWS 2021.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tom Behler
Jason:
You might be right about this.
And, that makes problems harder to resolve, because not everyone has the same experiences.
Recently, for example, I’ve been having issues with my Outlook address books.
I’m now no longer able to navigate through and edit e-mail group lists, and I have had to figure out an alternate way to copy e-mail addresses from my address books when needed.
I’ve contacted Freedom Scientific about these issues, and they acknowledge them.
They say they are related to Microsoft 365 updates.
It’s very frustrating, to say the least.
It makes me wonder whether the Microsoft accessibility people ever collaborate with Freedom Scientific prior to releasing updates.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jason White via groups.io
I’ve been receiving regular Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) updates, with no problems of this kind at all. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I encountered any sort of Office 365 regression The bugs that affect me seem to stay around from one version to another.
I don’t know why some people are encountering issues and others aren’t – it’s probably related to very specific configurations.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Tom Behler <tombehler@...> I have noticed this too, just this morning.
I had to go in and set view to draft, and now all is ok again.
Also, this morning, when my e-mail downloaded, it was arranged in some sort of a weird view which was not readable by Jaws. Had to go in and manually change the view to descending order by date.
I suspect all of this might have been caused by yet another Microsoft 365 update.
Tom Behler
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jasmine Kotsay
Hi, Shirley, I have not noticed this, but when I try reading a document later, I will see what happens.
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