Microsoft Word question

By Alexandra Moldovan, 18 January, 2021

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Hi,
I'm not sure if someone has already asked this, but I'm wondering why sometimes, when I go to the next page in Word, VoiceOver reads the text as if it were in the same line and it is not. Also, when looking on my Braille Display, I see the new line marker and then the words which should be on the next line, but are placed exactly after that marker. Furthermore, often words are cut in half, the first part appearing on a line and the second on another, and VoiceOver reads them like that and my Braille display shows them in this way, even if word wrap is enabled.
Can anyone tell me what causes this to happen and if this can be somehow solved?
Thanks a lot.

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By Cowboy on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 12:49

I actually posted a thread similar to this a few weeks ago. Nobody had any suggestions, and I ended up reporting it to Microsoft. It wouldn’t hurt if you reported it as well.

As much as I wanted to use my Mac because it would keep me on the same eco system, and because some of the other programs I use for worke are slightly more accessible; it just doesn’t make since. I spend to much time fighting with word and a couple of other programs. I went back to my windows computer for the second time and I’m not trying for a third. That computer is my wife’s previous MacBook and it can now collect dust and be her backup.

By Alexandra Moldovan on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 12:49

Thank you for your reply. I’ll also report this bug and hopefully they will fix it. Yes, Mac seems a bit difficult, but I like to experiment things on it.

By Alexl1 on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 12:49

There must have been a new update to Word because for the past two weeks, I've been having issues reading by using the arrow keys on a Word document. It is just repeating the same paragraph over and over again.