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Accessibility features in Word

Article Show All Hide All Microsoft Office Word 2007 includes features that make the software accessible to a wider range of users, including those who have limited...

Customize keyboard shortcuts

Article Show All Hide All You can customize keyboard shortcuts by assigning keyboard shortcuts (or shortcut keys) to a command, macro, font, style, or commonly...

Helpful feature for JAWS in the Word spelling checker

Article If spelling and grammar are not your strong suits, you will love this feature in Word. Read on to learn how to ramp up your writing skills to a whole new...

I don't see commands for converting text to speech

Article Text-to-speech features are included only in Microsoft Office Excel. What do you want to do? Use text-to-speech commands in Microsoft Office Excel 2007...

Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office Word

Article Word 2007 keyboard shortcuts for U.S. keyboard layout.

Keyboard shortcuts for SmartArt graphics

Article Shortcut key combinations that you can use to quickly work with a SmartArt graphic in Office 2007.

Keyboard shortcuts for working with shapes, text boxes, and WordArt

Article Show All Hide All The keyboard shortcuts that are described in this article refer to the U.S. keyboard layout. Keys on other layouts might not correspond...

Shortcut keys in Office 2007

Article This article gives you links to Help, Demos, and Tutorials on how to use shortcut keys (keyboard shortcuts) in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Link to...

Use access keys from Office 2003 in Ribbon programs

Article In some Microsoft Office programs, menus and toolbars have been replaced by the Ribbon, which is a part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. However...

Use the keyboard to work with Ribbon programs

Article Show All Hide All If you prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse, the programs that use the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent...

Use Windows to make your Office experience accessible

Article There are several ways to make Microsoft Office easier to use for people with disabilities. In most cases, the way to customize your system to make it more...

Welcome to the Accessibility Advocate

Article Let's talk about accessibility. Office.com’s accessibility survival guide Just as disability takes many forms, so too does assistive technology. That's...

What happened to speech recognition?

Article Speech recognition features are not available in the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs. To use speech recognition features, run Windows Speech Recognition...

Ten tips for accessible documents

Article Top tips on creating Office documents that everyone can read. Have you ever realized that not everyone receiving your documents can read and understand...

Creating accessible Word documents

Article Learn how to create Word documents that are more accessible to people with disabilities, or who are using assistive technologies.

Using the Save as Daisy add-in

Article The Open XML to DAISY XML Translator add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Word 2007 helps content creators produce accessible documents for people...

Add alternative text to a shape, picture, chart, SmartArt graphic, or other object

Article Add alt text to shape, pictures, charts, or SmartArt graphics in Office 2007.

Create accessible PDFs

Article Learn how to create PDF files that are more accessible.

Appropriate use of alternative text

Link Learn how to write effective alternative text for your images, tables, and objects.