Category: Geeks r Us
There are two applications I am having trouble with on my computer. The first is Outlook. Between every word, jaws says space marker, and this is bad when reading lines or entire emails or blocks of text. It would say something like hi space marker how space marker are space marker you? That's annoying. I can get around it but I still would like a solution to that problem. More importantly though, Jaws won't read excell files at all. When they are opened, the computer says initialising... or something to that effect. The message goes away within a few seconds and the spreadsheet loads, but Jaws won't read it except when I go into Jaws kursor. This happens with Jaws 7/8 on my machine, I have the latest Jaws 8 update. Microsoft office is 2003, and I have no problems with word. I have tried repairing Jaws, it hasn't worked. Can office be repaired without a CD?
I don't know what the problem is with excel, but I think I can help you with word.
You are probably set to show all marks.
Do the following:
1. Hit alt+t for tools.
2. Up arrow to options and hit enter.
3. You should start out on the view window which is what you want.
4. Hit your tab key a bunch of times (about ten or more) until you hear the word "all".
If this is checked press the space bar to turn it off. If it isn't checked, I don't know.
5. tab until you hear ok and press enter.
That should do it.
Hope this helps.
Bob
I'm not sure I quite understand your question about excell. When it's loading it says initializing. Are you saying that after the initializing message goes away, you can't read the excell window?
In response to post 2, that has worked thank you. In response to post 3, after the message is gonhe, jaws in PC cursor won't read excell. It won't read the data in the cells, it won't tell me what cell I'm in, when I move between cells it doesn't tell me so I don't even know whether I have moved. This is the same for rows. It says nothing, but it used to say something. I need this problem to be sorted, because I need to be able to read spreadsheets for the voluntary work I do.
If you want, you could try downloading the jaws setup program from the fs website, uninstalling jaws, then reinstalling it.
Did you install anything or make any system changes before this excell problem started? I'm assuming it happens every time.
some thoughts: Try maximizing the window by pressing alt-spacebar and the letter x. Try refreshing the screen with insert-escape after the file is loaded. Press insert-q to find out what settings ar loaded and you should hear excel or office. this is to be sure the right scripts are being loaded. Try perhaps rebooting the machine and then start excel and before you bring up a document when excell is loaded you should see a blank spreadsheet. try moving around it and if you hear the cells and cordinates then open a file and see what happens. Of course there is also the question are there any other softwares installed such as the google toolbar or desktop? These can cause focus issues.
I've seen this problem very occasionally, butm ostly with huge Excel spread sheets. Sometimes pressing ctrl-g for go to and then type in a cell number, such as a1 will bring the focus on Excel and Jaws will start speaking again. I am not sure why this happens, there's no fixed pattern to it and it happens very rarely on my Office 2003, but it's a fix worth trying.
cheers
-B