I certainly won't tell anyone else how to format their manuscript but I've been indenting paragraphs from the days when we wrote out papers for assignments. Thankfully I can still write with paragraphs being indented. An agent once loved my manuscript and then like an idiot I told her I was legally blind. Then she started demanding that I get a sighted person to read back my manuscript and edit it that way. Needless to say I dropped her and saved her the grief of further reading the work of a blind woman. As far as I know my manuscripts read like those of a sighted person. I had an article published last week in a popular blog and the editor has no idea I'm blind. His blog has published me several times.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:56 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making blank lines appear betweenparagraphs in Word 2010? Sometimes people will indent the beginning of paragraphs, thus the tab character. In the case of the one I am overseeing, though, she likes to left-align everything. -----Original Message----- From: Annette Carr Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 5:06 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making blank lines appear betweenparagraphs in Word 2010? If I am not aware that a sighted co-worker has formatted the document to automatically add the desired white space between paragraphs, I am not aware that the white space is there and then I add a hard return which places too much white space between the paragraphs. As a personal preference, when I am editing someone else's work, I like having the hard return between paragraphs so that I know the writer intended a new paragraph. I do not like hearing JAWS say "Tab" when it is encountered at the beginning of the paragraph. Annette -----Original Message----- >From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] >On Behalf Of j Bron Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 10:00 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making blank lines appear between paragraphs in Word 2010? I'm also an author and never thought about how a sighted writer gets a blank line. Obviously I work alone. If the wanted result is the blank line what difference does it make how you get it? -----Original Message----- >From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] >On Behalf Of Annette Carr Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 7:34 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making blank lines appear between paragraphs in Word 2010? As a screen reader user, I prefer to use the technique of pressing the Enter key twice to place a blank line between paragraphs. However, sighted people like to adjust the paragraph settings. This drives me crazy as the only way that I have been able to figure out that they used this approach was to dig through the paragraph settings. So when I am co-authoring a document with a sighted co-worker, we have to agree on which technique we are using. I'm not sure if Insert+F will give you information about the height of a blank line. I never thought of using that command when I was dealing with this problem. HTH, Annette -----Original Message----- >From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] >On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 9:10 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Making blank lines appear between paragraphs in Word 2010? In Word 2010, how does one make it so that there is a blank line between paragraphs? (The default seems to be that - whatever adjustments you make to line width, height, etc. - there isn't a blank line separating them (two presses of the down-arrow key instead of just one like there was in previous versions of Word [unless you changed that formatting]. Or, is that only because that's how other people wrote their documents? (I'm quite new to using Word 2010regularly.) -----Original Message----- >From: Kevin Lee Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 12:33 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] microsoft word 2010 document margins thanks!!!@! -----Original Message----- >From: Dialup @ 56k Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 4:22 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] microsoft word 2010 document margins Hello Kevin, Try Alt + p, SP. This opens a window which has three tabs, Margins (the one you want), Paper and Layout. You can Ctrl + Tab between these three pages; you can use Tab to navigate within each page. HTH. Glen *** On 10-Feb-15 11:12 AM, Kevin Lee wrote: > how can I change margins of a document, is there a shortcut key > I read that in word only the menus have changed, but all the shortcut > keys remain the same. the problem is I really never knew the > shortcuts like the most common ones. > Email is golden!!! > Kevin Lee > 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/