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When using Microsoft Word with JAWS, you can display a list of misspelled words in the JAWS Virtual Viewer. This allows you to quickly review and correct spelling errors. You must enable the setting Check spelling as you Type in Word for this list to be available. If you try to access the list and this setting is not enabled, a message will be displayed telling you to enable it.

When using an app or navigating a web page, there may be times when the screen content changes but JAWS does not automatically announce the new information. This can occur when content is updated on the screen or when you visit a new web page.

When in a meeting or webinar hosted on the Zoom conferencing platform, you may not want to hear JAWS speak alerts such as when someone enters or leaves the meeting, or when a participant raises their hand. Here’s how to disable them using JAWS.

The new Outlook desktop app has a new design that differs from that of Outlook Classic, and can be navigated with JAWS using keyboard commands. In Outlook Classic, you can check spelling by pressing F7; however, this keyboard command does not work in the new Outlook. Instead, follow these steps.

Google Sheets is a part of the Google Workspace suite of applications, and is widely used in schools and in the workplace to organize data. You can navigate, format, and analyze data in Sheets with JAWS using the keyboard.

When you start Adobe Acrobat Reader for the first time, the New acrobat Reader Interface will be enabled. We recommend disabling this and reverting back to the legacy interface to ensure access to all features and functionality. Here’s how.

Document formatting refers to the layout and appearance of content. This adds consistency throughout and makes it easier to read. Formatting characteristics include font type and size, bold, underline, italic, and line spacing. There are times, like when content has been copied and pasted from another source that contains different formatting, when you may want to clear the formatting so your document does not contain any unwanted formatting characteristics.

You can search for text in PDFs with JAWS using the Find command. With the PDF open in a browser, follow these steps.