The patch is out there, I hear it works great but I haven't tried it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
> WHat about Vista and JAWS? I had heard back in December that Vista
> wouldn't work even with JAWS 8, but that a patch or something would come
> out later on this year?
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> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Lou Kline wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Even if it will work with a plug in, do you really think that all of his
>> students are going to get the plug in? For that matter, they could save
>> their stuff as Rich text, and then you could open it on anything, but you
>> probably couldn't get half of them to save it that way...
>>
>> This is not an unprecedented problem, either. While mostly compatible,
>> we
>> definitely did run into some minor compatibility issues between Office
>> 2003
>> and Office 2000 at my workplace.
>>
>> My guess is that you are going to have to do some reading about how to
>> use
>> Office 2007 from the keyboard. I don't know if Freedom Scientific has
>> much
>> material on using Office 2007 yet. They may, because I haven't looked
>> for
>> it yet. One sneaky way to do it would be to look through the stuff on MS
>> Word in GW Micro's materials, and by sorting out the Word commands from
>> the
>> Window-Eyes commands, you might be able to figure out how the thing
>> works. I suspect that in six months, Office 2007 won't seem any worse
>> than
>> Office 2003 does now. It's probably just a matter of learning a new set
>> of
>> techniques.
>>
>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>>
>> At 03:25 PM 5/29/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>> >I was told in 1 of my classes that you can but you need a plug in for
>> >2003,
>> >and another person said not at all. I have yet to try it. I just
>> >installed
>> >2007 last week.
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:13 PM
>> >Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
>> >
>> >
>> > > John:
>> > >
>> > > If you prepare a document on your Office 2007 machine, can it be read
>> > > on
>> > > an
>> > > Office 2003 machine?
>> > >
>> > > I have been told that when I e-mail someone a document on the office
>> > > 2007
>> > > machine, it cannot be opened by someone who has Office 2003.
>> > >
>> > > Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>> > >
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:49 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> I'm running office 2007 in windows XP.
>> > >> ----- Original Message -----
>> > >> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:36 PM
>> > >> Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>> They may be right, because often times things are downward
>> > >>> compatible
>> > >>> but
>> > >>> not necessarily upward compatible. Like you may be able to read
>> > >>> documents
>> > >>> in previously produced versions, but not always in updated
>> > >>> versions.
>> > >>> But
>> > >>> I
>> > >>> wonder if Office 2007 works in XP or if it is designed to work only
>> > >>> in
>> > >>> Vista.
>> > >>> Harvey
>> > >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >1:01 PM
>>
>> Louis Kim Kline
>> A.R.S. K2LKK
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