Office 2010 and Windows 7 with JAWS and MAGic
This new five-day hands-on workshop is designed for anyone who wants to get specific training on how to use JAWS and MAGic with Microsoft® Office 2010 and Windows® 7. Learn specific techniques in Windows 7, Microsoft Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Outlook® using the keyboard (and mouse) with JAWS and MAGic.
Heavy emphasis is placed throughout on using best techniques for accessible document design as part of the document creation process.
If you have taken any workshops or classes prior to now on Office 2007, you'll want to take this class to learn the many ways Microsoft has changed the interface and also to learn the changes to key tips you may have learned for Office 2007. Many of the key tips that worked in Office 2007 no longer work because they have changed in Office 2010.
Windows 7 Introduction and Configuration
JAWS and MAGic are tested and developed with Windows 7 set up right out of the box. However, there are a few minor changes you may wish to make for personal preferences, including:
- User Account Control settings
- Windows Explorer details view
- Showing known file extensions in Windows Explorer
Overview of the Office Ribbon and New Office Backstage View
NOTE: Persons who attend this workshop should already have a working knowledge of JAWS and good keyboard skills.
The Office backstage view replaces the Office Button menu. It is not a menu, and not a ribbon. It offers one place that groups all of the things you can do to a document AFTER you have edited it, including printing, distribution, and document properties, just to name a few.
Outlook 2010
Discussion and use of Outlook 2010 occurs throughout the workshop, as students and instructor interact and send projects and documents to each other. In addition, items of discussion include:
- Preferences
- Sending and receiving messages and attachments
- Calendar, appointments, and meeting requests
- JAWS Navigation Quick Keys with Outlook messages
- Categorizing messages
- Instant search
Word 2010
Some of the topics covered in the section on Word 2010 include:
- Preferences, such as Word Options ALT followed by F, T (formerly ALT, F, followed by I in Office 2007)
- Changing the default document template
- Creating new templates
- Styles in Microsoft Word
- Inserting headers, footers, bookmarks, footnotes, endnotes, comments, hyperlinks, and images (with alternate text)
- Page layout
- Track changes for revisions
- Mail merge
- JAWS Navigation Quick Keys with Word
- Creating forms in Microsoft Word
- Save as PDF
- Word to DAISY Translator
PowerPoint 2010
The class will create a PowerPoint 2010 presentation that demonstrates knowledge of the following tasks:
- Use JAWS and the keyboard to create and present slide shows
- Set a background color for all slides in the presentation
- Use a photograph as a background for an entire slide
- Use design templates in PowerPoint to choose a variety of different slides
- Navigate at the object as well as the text entry level of slides
- Insert a button to play a sound on a slide
- Use slide animation effects to fly in bullet points one at a time
- Rearrange animation effects for a more effective presentation
- Set a delay in playing a sound to allow for a more effective presentation
- Insert graphics that have alternate text
- Insert and read speaker's notes
- Use the spell checker in PowerPoint
- Know how to use the outline and thumbnail views during the slide creation process
- Be able to hand out notes from the presentation to your audience
- Use the JAWS Help system to reference keystrokes and more information specific to PowerPoint
Excel 2010
Participants in this class will learn to use JAWS or MAGic to accomplish the following:
- Learn and use keyboard navigation and selection techniques
- Insert and read comments
- Create row and column headers for ranges that read automatically for JAWS or MAGic users
- Read row and column headers with JAWS and MAGic
- Insert hyperlinks for navigation
- Select and move to worksheet objects
- Create and modify charts
- List or post row and column totals with MAGic and JAWS
- List cells with data in current column or row
- List cells with comments or formulas
- Set and use monitored cells
- Create an accessible form in Excel
- Create and use the Custom Summary feature of JAWS for Excel worksheets
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Microsoft®, Windows®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Outlook® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.