Hello Siew Ling, You can turn on the track changes feature in Word 2007. First of all, use JAWS key with page down to hear the status line and find out if the track changes feature is on the status bar. If it is then JAWS will say "track changes." If it isn't then do the following to add "track changes" to the status bar:
1. Use F6 to move focus to the status bar. 2. Press the application key. 3. Use down arrow through the list of items that you can choose to show on the status bar or to hide from it. When you reach the "track changes" choice listen to find out if it is checked or not. If it is not checked then press spacebar. 4. Press the escape key to return to the main document window. 5. use JAWS key with page down again and you should hear JAWS say "track changes." If not then use F6 to the status bar and then use right arrow across the bar to see if it is listed on the bar. If not then go back to the application key and try checking the choice again. 6. Once the "track changes" choice is on the status bar then use CTRL+shift+E to toggle between having track changes turned on or off. You want it turned on for JAWS to announce changes. 7. Use JAWS key with V to bring up the verbosity dialog. 8. Press the letter T until the "track changes" item is in focus. 9. Press spacebar repeatedly to switch between the different levels of information that JAWS speaks. The choices are combinations of type, author, date and count. Take care. Brian Lee brianl...@charter.net -----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Tan Siew Ling Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 12:55 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Track Changes for Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 Hi, My friend told me there is a "Track Changes" in Microsoft Word 2003. Description of this function: At the bottom of the Word window, you double click an icon that says TK. It seems that when you add or delete text from the document, or change formatting, like bullets and indent, it will show up. When you add text, the text is underlined and is different colour. When you delete, they draw a dotted arrow pointing to where it was deleted from, and at the side of the document, they put a speech balloon saying what was deleted. My friend still have some sight left so he described to me the above. Can JAWS tell you all these information? How do you go about achieving it? Last question, is this Track Changes still available for Word 2007. If so, where may one find it? Thank you. Regards, Siew Ling For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
