Have you tried Quick Keys mode in Word? It works much like Quick
Navigation in Internet Explorer. Quick Keys is enabled and disabled by
using JAWS + z as a toggle. When in Quick Keys mode, you will not be
able to edit the document. It merely lets you navigate the document
with single keys. Like in IE, h will move to the next heading, p will
move to the next paragraph, and so on. If the chapters start with a
heading, such as heading level 2, just pressing 2 will move to the next
chapter.
For example, this could be used with the F8 selection as follows:
1. Move to the beginning of the text to be selected. Then press F8.
2. Turn on Quick Keys with JAWS (Insert) + z.
3. Press the 2 key to move to the next chapter. It will read the
entire amount selected, which annoys me, so I rarely use F8 for
selection. If I am confident about the selection, I just continue on
the next step.
4. Copy the selection using Control + c.
5. Return to normal by pressing Escape to exit the selection mode and
then JAWS + z to exit Quick Keys mode.
I hope this is more like what you are looking for.
*Don Marang*
Vinux Software Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I
am working on things that matter.
-- Dean Kamen
On 7/24/2011 8:47 PM, Kelby Carlson wrote:
I know how all the basic select commands work. I am asking for
something different, which I think has been provided. I want to know
quite specifically how to highlight a PORTION OF TEXT in a document
that is not a line, word, or paragraph so that cannot; select with the
normal commands. (Let's assume the section is in the middle of the
document, so select-to-end and select-to-beginning are not efficient
ways of ding this.) Does that make things clearer?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janie Degenshein" <jdege...@comcast.net
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Date sent: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:42:55 -0400
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Blocking Text with JAWS
Can you use the control a to select all?
Keep Smiling,
Janie Degenshein
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kelby Carlson
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:59 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Blocking Text with JAWS
This actually was not what I am asking. Let us say I need to
copy a chapter from a textbook that is several pages long. How
can I do this, other than going paragraph by paragraph and
appending? I know sighted people can do this, and I can do it
quite easily with a notetaker.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Barbara In Arcadia" <mb69ma...@charter.net
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Date sent: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:48:49 -0700
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Blocking Text with JAWS
Hi Kelby,
Try the information below to see if this will do what you are
wanting to
accomplish.
The F8 key in Word is a Toggle. You press the F8 key a different
number of
times to select different amounts of text.
Pressing the F8 key 1 time turns extended selection mode on. In
this mode
you can arrow up or down to select text line by line.
Pressing the F8 key 2 times will copy the highlighted word.
Pressing the F8 key 3 times will copy the sentence the cursor is
in.
Pressing the F8 key 4 times will copy the paragraph the cursor is
in.
Pressing the F8 key 5 times will copy the document.
Hope this has helped. Take care.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Kelby Carlson
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 1:45 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Blocking Text with JAWS
Brief question from a first-timer. Is there a way to block
text--as in multiple paragraphs--for selection in a document
with
JAWS? Like highlighting a certain section of thedocument that
is
not just a line, word or paragraph for copying and/or cutting?
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