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Microsoft Office 2007 Accessibility
This page is meant to be a resource for those of us who use adaptive technology and/or the keyboard to work with Microsoft Office 2007.
Excel workbook with the Ribbon, Sub-Ribbon, and "not on the Ribbon" commands for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook 2007 [about 3.5 MB]. This is an xlsx file and you will need Excel 2007 or the Microsoft compatibility plug-in for previous versions of Office.
There is also a tagged PDF handout on some of the settings you should change in Word to be more effective if you are using adaptive technology. This is the handout for the TeckTalk presentation made in February 2008.
Word 2007 from the Keyboard available from Karlen Communications. This book will cover beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics. It covers everything in the main Ribbons and much more! The book is 390 pages of step-by-step instruction and has more than 30 support documents that you can navigate through to see examples of tools and features in Word 2007! This is a solid reference guide for working with Word 2007 from the keyboard.
New "How To" document! The Microsoft Document Imaging tool is a free OCR tool available in Office 2003 as well as Office 2007. This How To guide is designed for those using Office 2007 but can be used by people with other versions of Microsoft Office. If you need a fast and free tool to scan a page or two and read it, this is a good place to start.
Karen is currently working on "PowerPoint 2007 from the Keyboard" which should be published early 2010.
Karen McCall wrote the appendix on creating an accessible Word document for the QUE book "Special Edition: Microsoft Word 2007." Although this book is only available in print, it will be helpful for anyone using Word 2007 and is a great resource book. It is available from Amazon.
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