Ana, I still think hat office 2016 has issues with screen readers . I would stick with office 2013 if you can as that is more stable and more robust with screenreaders like JAWS and NVDA. That’s whati have experienced having used office 2016 for 3 months and having issues with it and so I have reverted back to Office 2013 and just decided ot stick ther till things improve with office 2016 and jaws 17.  

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Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 8:29 AM
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Subject: [VICUG-L] Word 2016, Getting Superscript Instead of Heading

Hi all,

I've been working on a long document in word 2016. the document is broken up into sections and subsections, so whenever I get to one of the section titles, I highlight the title and use alt+ctrl+1, alt+ctrl+2, or 
alt+ctrl+3 to turn the title into a heading level 1, 2, or 3, which is
what I use to build and update the table of contents. Everything has been working fine until this weekend.

Suddenly, when I highlight the title and press alt+ctrl+1 (or whatever), Jaws would announce, "Subscript 1 (or whatever)." At first, I thought Jaws was simply misreporting because, when I would arrow to the title and press ins+f for font information, Jaws would report the same font information as for other headings, but when I updated the table of contents, the heading wasn't listed, and when I restarted Word and opened the document, I'd hear, "Subscript 1 (or whatever)," instead of the section title.

the good part is that the behavior wasn't at all consistent. Most of the time, pressing alt+ctrl+# created a heading at the right level, but once the superscript behavior started, the only way to correct it was to restart Word.

Has anyone experienced this? I suspect I'm doing something to trigger the superscript behavior, like flubbing a screen reader command that is similar to the superscript command, so I'm investigating on the web, but I thought I'd post here in case anyone has beat me to the solution.

I'm running Jaws 17, Windows 10, and Word 2016.

Ciao


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