Hello, Frederic. If you just want to read the presentation and not edit it,
I find that choosing Outline from the view menu removes the annoying
graphics that get in the way of reading. This makes the presentation appear
in rich text document, so you can then save it from the file menu and/or
copy and paste it into a Word document.
As for editing inside shapes and images, you must ungroup these because
you are creating vector graphics.. When sighted people edit these files
they too must ungroup them to bring them back into bit map format, and then
regroup them again. PowerPoint only handles one bit map image at a time
unless you regroup them.
I h ave found it most helpful to use the automatic layout settings when
doing a new slide. If you are making your own presentations or editing
those of others, if you choose the slide layouts that say, for example,
"Text and Clipart" this means the text appears on the left side and the
picture appears on the right. You can then use the JFW commands and the
powerpoint keyboard commands to tab or simulate a mouse click on the title,
sub title if there is one, or it will say "double click to add clipart"
which brings up the clipart galery. If you choose Text and two objects for
example as a slide choice, use the jaws cursor to find where it says double
click to add object and your cursor will be placed in the proper position
once you press enter after selecting the proper clipart or other object.
This is not an easy program to use, there is much about it I still don't
know. Please write me privately if I can help further.
=Beth Hatch-Alleyne=
Justice Means Not Just Us.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Beauvais, Frederic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 08 October, 1999 4:28 AM
Subject: Navigating Powerpoint documents
> I have commenced using Powerpoint a few weeks ago but I am experiencing
> significant difficulties. I am using JFW 3.3.022 in a Windows
> 98/Office97environment.
>
> Reading complex Powerpoint presentations remain very difficult and
sometimes
> impracticable. The main obstacles are the following:
>
> 1. When reading a slide, whether using the CTR+INSERT+DOWN ARROW or the
TAB
> key, JFW will often read shapes in a random order. This indeed renders
the
> understanding of certain slides practically impossible since there is no
> logical order in which the various shapes and objects of the slide are
read
> by JFW. I have noted that converting the presentation to html format in
> order to read the slide with IE does not solve this logical ordering
problem
> .
>
> 2. Reading and editing the text of of shapes is often very difficult and
> sometimes impracticable. Typically, I would type ENTER when on the shape
> containing the text to be edited but once I have typed ENTER JFW tends to
> read the text in a random fashion. It seems that JFW adds text which is
not
> appearing in the selected shape or does not read all the text or does not
> recognize columns. This problem makes it very difficult to either
carefully
> read the text of a sshape to extract specific information or to actually
> edit a slide.
>
> 3. JFW cannot read shapes or objects that are grouped. I have to each
time
> proceed through the menues to ungroup them.
>
> I would greatly appreciate having imput and finding out whether others are
> using Powerpoint with more success than me.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Frederic Beauvais
> Communications and High Tech Group
> A.T. Kearney
> 8-10 rue Victor Noir
> 92521 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
> Tel: +33 1 41 92 13 38
> Fax: +33 1 41 92 10 45
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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