Dear Fred,

I don't even know what else I was going to say when my post went POOF,
except that one time I tried to close a design window with shortcuts, and
ended up somehow closing the whole Access program-along with a whole bunch of
object windows I had open.

Your Access keyboard shortcuts sound workable. It may be a while before I
mess much with that, but your help will give me a good head start, and more
courage to try. Thanks.

A ZoomText newgroup would be nice, except that you'll then have to teach me
how to use a newsgroup! I'm clueless. I know they exist, and that I can
theoretically use them in Outlook Express (which I currently use for email)
or in Outlook (which is where I plan to shift my email soon), but that's all
I know.

Thanks,

write on


"Fred Boer" wrote:

Hi!

Well, if AiSquared tech support couldn't solve the graphics card issue, I
don't think there is anything I can suggest. However as far as the Access
shortcut keystrokes goes:

Dragging and dropping to the design grid issue:

You don't need to drag and drop here. Just navigate to the top of the column
in the design grid. As you enter, a dropdown arrow is displayed. Press F4
and you will get a dropdown list of all available fields. Simply select the
field you need.

Closing design view window:

To close the design window, try Ctrl-F4.

HTH
Fred



"write on" wrote in message
...
Dear Fred,

I was running ZoomText 8.12.2.2. Your question reminded me to check for
updates, so I just downloaded 8.13.0.6.

I think I discussed graphics cards with AiSquared tech when I was having a
problem with a driver update. The tech was using the same card I have, I
think, but had no problems. I think my card might be just plain quirrely,
but
I can't get any tech support for that. I never know when I start up
whether
my display is going to be nice and sharp and clean, or too blurry to look
at.
There's no rhyme or reason to it. But I have tested my graphics with and
without ZoomText, and there is a definite problem with ZT running. I've
even
had my mouse pointer up and disappear a couple of times. The first time, I
was so glad I knew how to close programs and shut down from the keyboard.
The
second time, I discovered that if I disable ZT, the pointer comes right
back.

Access and shortcuts: Try to create a new query in Design View. How do you
drag and drop the fields from the Table list to the grid without using the
mouse? Then navigate to the sort field; now open the drop down list of
choices. Finish the grid and save your file. Now you want to close that
desing window. The first--andlast--time I tried to do something like that,
I
opened the window shortcut menu (ALT+SPACEBAR
"Fred Boer" wrote:

Hi:

Ok, well, I am at work now (my lunchtime...). What version of Zoomtext
are
you using? Have you contacted AiSquared about your graphics card
incompatability issue?

I *still* can't try to reproduce your issue with Outlook Express, since
the
school workstations (which have Zoomtext) don't have Outlook Express, and
my
computer (which has Outlook Express) doesn't have Zoomtext. I hope to
grab
the systems officer and install Zoomtext this afternoon. Then I can try
to
reproduce the problems you describe.

As for Access and keyboard shortcuts--well, I haven't even gotten that
far
yet. Just getting comfortable with Access itself is all I can handle
right

Yes, well, Access has a steeper learning curve than Excel or Word. You
have
to learn a bit about "normalization" and other things before you can
start
setting up an effective Access application. The "10 Commandments" were
meant
to help beginners avoid certain pitfalls, but I suppose they can be
confusing.

One thing I will add to other responses, is that you really must avoid
working directly with tables. The general concept is that you set up the
tables, but you do all your data entry/editing only through forms. This
has
an advantage for you, btw, in that you can design the forms with whatever
font size you want - so, if you prefer a 24 point Arial font for visual
comfort, this is no problem.

I have many students that use Zoomtext. I have explored the program, but,
I
am not blind or low vision, so I don't use it regularly. However, my
students can often answer questions I might need answering, and I can
experiment myself if necessary. As I say, I'll grab an installation this
afternoon, so that I can play with it on my own machine.


P.S. Should we change the subject, and/or move this discussion to a
different forum? Can we? Will "Notify me of replies" work if we do?

If you wish, feel free to email me privately. The "reply to" email
address
for this post will give you a "munged" copy of my email address. Just
remove
the "NO" and "SPAM" to derive my actual email address. Revealing an
un-munged email address in newsgroups is a surefire way to be inundated
with
spam....

I think as long as we are even peripherally dealing with Access this
forum
will be ok. If we want to move more exclusively into Zoomtext, we might
want
to move. I'll have a look around for a Zoomtext oriented newsgroup...

Looking forward to chatting more with you...

Fred