Hi,
I've seen this behavior before in Word 2010. While there's certainly
nothing wrong with maximizing its window, playing with the zoom factor will
make a difference. Try setting zoom to page width and/or 100% and test it
again. Stay away from a zoom factor of multiple pages.
Hope this helps.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Jaws Skipping Around in Word
> Have you checked to see if the program is maximized? In older versions of
> word, sometimes adjusting the zoom has helped. I haven't had to do that
> in a very long time so not sure if that will help either.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ana G <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:00:17 -0700
> Subject: [VICUG-L] Jaws Skipping Around in Word
>
> Hi all,
>
> sometimes when I'm arrowing around in Word, I suddenly find myself
> somewhere unexpected. for example, I finished writing a paragraph, hit
> enter twice, wrote a title, hit enter twice again, and started another
> paragraph. Then I pressed ctrl+up-arrow once to move to the title, but I
> wound up about a page and a half above it. The same thing happened when
> I used the arrow keys. Pressing up-arrow by itself a couple of times
> didn't move me to the title, but to roughly the same place as before,
> about a page and a half up from where I had been.
>
> This usually happens at page boundaries, but it sometimes happens in
> other places. The only way to stop bouncing to somewhere I don't want to
> go is to use ctrl+left-arrow to move from the paragraph to the title.
>
> I'm using Windows 8.1, Word 2013, and Jaws 15, but I think, though can't
> swear, it's happened in earlier versions of word. I don't think I've
> noticed this with NVDA, but then again, I use NVDA less often than Jaws.
> It doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens a lot.
>
> any ideas about what's causing this or how to avoid it.
>
> Ciao
>
>
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