[gui-talk] MS Word usage questions

Thu Jan 18 11:01:02 CST 2007

Hi Laura,
I didn't mean to imply that I was at a lack for ways to launch IE. I was 
just giving one example of a way to launch it without using the shortcut key 
command from within Word. As for whether someone finds it more convenient 
and/or efficient to use the icon, the Start menu, or the shortcut key 
command is, well, totally moot as far as I'm concerned. One of the more 
amusing things that I see happen repeatedly on blind tech lists is that one 
person will mention something as I did, and someone else will recommend 
their own favorite method, as you did, and if any more is said about it by 
either party, at least one other lister will chide one or both of them for 
being a Windows fascist, so to speak (it's humorous slang and has nothing 
serious to do with politics and history), and add that the great thing about 
Windows, or Jaws, or whatever's the topic, is that there are many ways to 
accomplish the same task. Yadda yadda. it's hysterically predictable.

Anyway, I can launch IE from the Start Menu, from its icon, or with that Alt 
Control I hotkey, and I use whichever method suits me at a given moment. 
Sorry if I sounded in need of orientation. Hope you've solved the problem 
you initially inquired about.
Joel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] MS Word usage questions

Hi Joel, I invoke internet explorer from the start menu -- much easier than
going to the desktop.
Just hit ither the windows key or control+escape -- is that wrong anyone? --
and the start menu will pop up -- then select "internet" -- should be the
first command on the start menu.
Good luck. Thanks for the note.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] MS Word usage questions

Hi Laura,
I'm not sure Word has hijacked many of your customary hotkeys, but I'll bet
I know which one it is. Control insert I? Which you've been using to launch
Internet Explorer? And if you use it in Word, it turns Insert mode on and
off? My solution to that was simply to learn the hard way that this happens,
then never again to launch the browser that way from within Word. I just
either Alt Tab to another open application (no key conflict if you're in
Outlook Express or any number of other programs) or just go to the Desktop
with Windows key M or Windows key D, and launch IE from its icon or, if I
really must, press control alt I, just to do it.

Does Word seem to be appropriating any other of your hotkey combos?

Granted, you might be of a mind to actually reassign the keystrokes and, if
so, I understand that you'd consider my suggestion a mere workaround. But
this is what I do, at any rate.
Joel

taealing penhotekys,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] MS Word usage questions

Hi Lloyd --
Thanks, I'll try that.
Also, *darn* -- I have been using control+alt+numbers to invoke jaws and now
it appears Word has clashing hotkeys.
What happens to my hotkeys when Word is started and sets up those hotkeys?
When I exit Word, do I get my old hotkey settings back?  Surely Windows must
handle this...
Anyway, if you find more about section numbering, feel free to pass it
along.  Perhaps there is a special list macro that can hook into the table
of contents -- which by the way I don't know how to create... Off to the
documentation.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at loc.gov>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] MS Word usage questions

Try the various heading styles, such as heading 1, whose shortcut key is
ctrl-alt-1.  It applies itself to the "line" the cursor is on.  And when
these files are saved as HTML, you get a line surrounded by <h1> and
</h1>.  The shortcut keys apply from heading 1 through 9, I think.  There
are other parts of the Styles dialogues where you can change the print
appearance of these headings.  There is probably a way to generate
numbering from these headings also, but I haven't gotten that far into it.

At 08:25 AM 1/17/2007, you wrote:
>Hi all --
>I haven't been active on this list for a few weeks but have a question.  I
>just installed Office 2003 on my laptop and
>  am trying to put some documents into Microsoft Word and want to separate
>the documents into chapters and sections, in such a way that I could
>automatically print a table of contents.  I know this is possible in Word
>as
>I have poked around in all the commands in the options and customize
>settings and templates, but I don't know what keystrokes or commands to use
>to indicate that a certain text is the title of a new chapter -- there is
>nothing in the insert menu, for example, that says "insert new chapter or
>section heading".  There are header and footer things to insert, but I
>assume this is for the tops and bottoms of individual pages -- now, I'm not
>writing a huge book that will require this typeof thing -- not yet
>anyway --
>but I do want to just mark new chapters, and perhaps number them
>automatically rather than manually.
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction?
>Thanks in advance!!!!
>--le

... Creating implements of mass instruction.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress    (202) 707-0535   <http://www.loc.gov/nls>
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The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent
those of NLS.

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