[Blind-sysadmins] Re: Office 2016 as Windows 10 app

Hi, Those options are not available on the store version funnily enough. I can update the click to run version fine, but don't seem to be able to do this via the store version. According to a couple of sites, updates for the store version come from the Windows store, so wonder if something is not publishing the update to the store? i have the same old version on both my machines with this issue. Andrew.from the ________________________________________ From: Ryan Shugart [ryshugar@microsoft.com] Sent: 30 August 2018 17:55 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Office 2016 as Windows 10 app Andrew: From any office app, you can press alt+f for the file tab, and then find the option for office account. You can then tab through to the update options where you can see what your settings are and force an update to office, it will also tell you what subscription you're signed into. I'd make sure all that info is correct, but it definitely sounds like your version is out of date. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 6:11 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Office 2016 as Windows 10 app Hi, The click to run tools don't use MSIs which is unfortunate. I checked the version I am using and I think this is the issue. It is version 1804 (Build 9226.2114) which according to the web was released in April 2018. I checked for updates both on the store and in Office itself and it all looks up to date so not sure if I can go beyond that on the current install or whether I need to install using the .Exe. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Ryan Shugart [ryshugar@microsoft.com] Sent: 28 August 2018 20:45 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Office 2016 as Windows 10 app Hi Andrew: To the best of my knowledge the Office 2016 from the store should be the same as the executable you download from portal.office.com. One way you can check this in JAWS is by going into Outlook and press ins+ctrl+v, that will give you the current version of Outlook, which reflects the rest of the sweet. For example, my current version is Microsoft Outlook Subscription Version 16.0.10730.20075. I am using the nonstore version of Office 365 but I'd expect the store version to give you the same result, as under the hood its just the same executables, differently packaged. When you run into the Excel issues, have you tried running Excel with Narrator to see if the issue reproduces there, that will help tell you if its for sure a JAWS issue and something else to push back at VFO with. You should also let the Microsoft EDAD address know about this as if it turns out to be an office issue they can help push things with the office team. Thanks. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 8:24 AM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Office 2016 as Windows 10 app Hi all, Not strictly sysadmin related but for a long time now I have had a PowerShell bootstrap script which sets up everything on a clean Windows install. I used to install Office Click to Run using the .Exe downloaded from the MS website, however this is becoming problematic of late as older versions don't install correctly and sometimes mess up. A while ago I got a new laptop from Dell and noticed as part of the out of box experience it verified I had an Office365 subscription and downloaded the apps from the Windows store. I used the OEM installation image for a week with JFW and the apps seemed to work well, so I am now using these apps as part of my new installation. I can't script it, but going into the Windows store and re-downloading Office and iTunes directly from the store is a hell of a lot better then messing around with rubbish .Exe files which aren't meant to be scripted anyway. A few weeks ago I lost use of Excel 2016 (when moving around cells I can't read the contents via JFW without copying and pasting). Now I have an MSDN subscription and on one machine I reverted to using the Office 2016 MSI which works fine. There was a recent JFW update which mentioned Excel issues with cells and I thought this would fix things but it didn't. I emailed the support people about this in the UK and they have told me to repair Office, something which isn't available using the store versions. So I wanted to start a discussion to find out whether installing the Office 2016 from the store is a bad idea for screen reader users generally, if there are differences with updates to the store versions as opposed to the versions available by downloading the .Exe from the MS website, and if anyone has a good way of scripting the .Exe download and install. I should say that I have been using this method since around February 2018 and when iTunes got published to the store I am using that as well, I rebuild the systems fairly regularly. These are all home based systems running either Windows 10 Home or Pro with a MS account as the user account, making use of the Office365 Home with OneDrive subscription. No domain or anything special. The bootstrap script runs from a share on a NAS and downloads stuff either via the Internet, or off a separate deployment share. Thanks. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org