Thank you to everyone who has sent me suggestions. I really just wondered about "starter" because it was already on my computer, but there are a number of other options which I will investigate.
Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:19:46 +0530, Akbar S Currim wrote: >Hi, >I had the same problem and it was solved by GW Micro Tech Support's >tip of downloading Jarte which I am using quite satisfactorily >now. The GW Micro message is reproduced below for your information. >Hope this helps. >Regards, >Akbar >Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:48:30 -0400 >From: GW Micro Technical Support <[email protected]> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0a2) >Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/8.0a2 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: Akbar S Currim <[email protected]> >CC: Aaron Smith <[email protected]>, Mike Lawler <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: MS Word Starter >References: <[email protected]> >In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Antivirus-Scanned: True >Hello Akbar, >Since Microsoft doesn't allow add-ins for Office starter, our >enhanced Word support is not available. While a document is open, you >can open Window-Eyes, move to Verbosity/Office/Word/Miscellaneous, >and uncheck the "enhanced support for current Word document" checkbox >to cause us to fall back on our older way of reading the screen. This >is a per document settings, however, and must be repeated for each >new document you wish to read. >if you don't necessarily want to use Word, the Jarte program from >www.jarte.com can probably open your documents, and it is known to >work very well with Window-Eyes. >Regards, >Steve >On 9/6/2011 8:16 AM, Akbar S Currim wrote: >> Hi, >> >>I have a new HP laptop with MS Office starter version. Till I can >>afford to buy a full version of MS Office I would like to manage to >>read some old word documents with the present availability of the >>starter. But I just don't seem to be able to read anything with it >>although my sighted son says that the document opens up fine and he >>can read it. Is WE 7.51 compatible with starter? If not, is there >>any way I may read my old word documents, maybe with some other >>program like Open Office ? >> >>Thanks and regards, >> >>Akbar >At Saturday 11/12/2011 09:48 PM, Steve Jacobson wrote: >>On my new laptop, there is something called Microsoft Office >>Starter. I thought that this might work for me for a while >>until I get Microsoft Office on that machine, but it does not seem >>to work well with Window-Eyes. Is Microsoft Word >>Starter a different program than Microsoft Word rather than just >>being a limited version? I may still not have something >>configured correctly but thought I'd ask here before I spend a ton >>of time on this. Thanks for any information. >> >>Best regards, >> >>Steve Jacobson >> >> >>Best regards, >> >>Steve Jacobson >> >> >> >> >>If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >>sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your >>message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your >>message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >> >>GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You >>can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. >If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage >your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
