Re: [JAWS-Users] Text Selection
Note that all these commands are Windows, not screenreader, commands, except to the extent that JAWS uses the numpad to duplicate certain keys. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 8:59 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Text Selection Hi Tom, Take a look at the following: Selecting / Highlighing text Selecting a letter/character; Shift +left arrow selects prior character. Shift + right arrow selects next character. Selecting prior word; Insert/Jaws key, shift + left arrow or control, shift, + left arrow. Selecting next word; Insert/Jaws key, shift, + right arrow or control, shift, + right arrow. Selecting text from cursor to beginning of line; Shift + Home/7 key on number pad. Selecting text from cursor to end of line; Shift +End/1 on the number pad. Selecting text from cursor to the end of a document; Control, shift, + end/1 key on the number pad. Selecting text from cursor to the beginning of a document; Control, shift, + home/7 key on the number pad. Selecting more than 1 line of text; Hold the Shift key down while arrowing up or down until you have selected/highlighted the lines you want. Selecting all text; Control + A. This keystroke will select all the text in a document no matter the size or length of the document. to select a page at a time: shift page up or down From: Marquette, Ed In fact, the Windows key is employed with a number of fantastic JAWS keystrokes. One which I have come to use on an hourly basis is control plus windows plus k to mark a spot in a word document. One may later jump back to that spot instantly with just windows plus k; however, even more cool is the ability, in Word, to mark text from your cursor to the marked spot, and it doesn't matter whether, in the document, your cursor is ahead of the marked spot or behind it or whether it is 4 words or 40 pages away. You mark text back to the marked spot with JAWS key plus space bar and then m. Then, you can use control c to copy or control x to cut or windows c to append. Try it! You'll like it! Ed Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. - Original Message - From: Tom Fairhurst To: List Jaws Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 4:18 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Text Selection Is there a comparable hot key for extended text selection as in other screen readers. That is, so one can press Read To End or the PGDN and PGDN to rapidly select larger blocks of text, especially in HTML environments? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Text Selection
Hi Tom, Take a look at the following: Selecting / Highlighing text Selecting a letter/character; Shift +left arrow selects prior character. Shift + right arrow selects next character. Selecting prior word; Insert/Jaws key, shift + left arrow or control, shift, + left arrow. Selecting next word; Insert/Jaws key, shift, + right arrow or control, shift, + right arrow. Selecting text from cursor to beginning of line; Shift + Home/7 key on number pad. Selecting text from cursor to end of line; Shift +End/1 on the number pad. Selecting text from cursor to the end of a document; Control, shift, + end/1 key on the number pad. Selecting text from cursor to the beginning of a document; Control, shift, + home/7 key on the number pad. Selecting more than 1 line of text; Hold the Shift key down while arrowing up or down until you have selected/highlighted the lines you want. Selecting all text; Control + A. This keystroke will select all the text in a document no matter the size or length of the document. to select a page at a time: shift page up or down From: Marquette, Ed In fact, the Windows key is employed with a number of fantastic JAWS keystrokes. One which I have come to use on an hourly basis is control plus windows plus k to mark a spot in a word document. One may later jump back to that spot instantly with just windows plus k; however, even more cool is the ability, in Word, to mark text from your cursor to the marked spot, and it doesn't matter whether, in the document, your cursor is ahead of the marked spot or behind it or whether it is 4 words or 40 pages away. You mark text back to the marked spot with JAWS key plus space bar and then m. Then, you can use control c to copy or control x to cut or windows c to append. Try it! You'll like it! Ed Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. - Original Message - From: Tom Fairhurst To: List Jaws Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 4:18 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Text Selection Is there a comparable hot key for extended text selection as in other screen readers. That is, so one can press Read To End or the PGDN and PGDN to rapidly select larger blocks of text, especially in HTML environments? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[JAWS-Users] Text Selection
Is there a comparable hot key for extended text selection as in other screen readers. That is, so one can press Read To End or the PGDN and PGDN to rapidly select larger blocks of text, especially in HTML environments? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode
Hi Mike, This is what the Word 2002 context help for it (shift+F1, then F8), says: Extend Selection Turns extend mode on or off. In extend mode (EXT appears on the status bar), you can extend the selection using the arrow keys. So, in essence, that's how it should work. You may need to look through the tabs in Tools | Options, or else I don't know. Troubleshoot selecting text When I click the mouse or press a key, Microsoft Word automatically selects text. You may have turned on Extend Selection mode, which allows you to select text by clicking the mouse or pressing navigation keys. When this mode is active, the letters EXT appear on the status bar. To cancel Extend Selection mode, press ESC, and then click anywhere in your document. - Original Message - From: Mike Barbara mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 2:36 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Hi Flor, I am running Word 2002 also, but when I press the F8 key to activate the text selection mode, then press the F8 key again to go from word, to sentence, to paragraph, to document Jaws reads word or document . Am I trying to choose the text choice in which I want to select text incorrectly? If so, what are the correct keystrokes to use in text slection mode? All advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Take care. Mike - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Well, were there periods [full stops] in it as well? If so, I don't know why sentences were not included in the order. If not, then I have explained it. (unless there is now a difference in Microsoft word itself? I'm using word 2002. it's been word, sentence, paragraph, document, since office 97 at least.) - Original Message - From: Kimsan ksong8...@msn.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Ok, my question basically was when doing text selection is it suppose to say word, sentence, paragraph and document? I noted in my previous message that when I was at another machine an went into text selection mode I did not hear the sentence option and just wanted to know does text selection differ from machine-to-machine and if it doesn't how come I did not get the sentence option from the other machine and only word, paragraph and document? Predictability wasn't part of my concern. I hope my question had more clarification this time around. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode
Hi Flor, Thank you sir for the help. I understand the way this function works now. Thanks again. Take care. Mike - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 4:42 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Hi Mike, This is what the Word 2002 context help for it (shift+F1, then F8), says: Extend Selection Turns extend mode on or off. In extend mode (EXT appears on the status bar), you can extend the selection using the arrow keys. So, in essence, that's how it should work. You may need to look through the tabs in Tools | Options, or else I don't know. Troubleshoot selecting text When I click the mouse or press a key, Microsoft Word automatically selects text. You may have turned on Extend Selection mode, which allows you to select text by clicking the mouse or pressing navigation keys. When this mode is active, the letters EXT appear on the status bar. To cancel Extend Selection mode, press ESC, and then click anywhere in your document. - Original Message - From: Mike Barbara mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 2:36 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Hi Flor, I am running Word 2002 also, but when I press the F8 key to activate the text selection mode, then press the F8 key again to go from word, to sentence, to paragraph, to document Jaws reads word or document . Am I trying to choose the text choice in which I want to select text incorrectly? If so, what are the correct keystrokes to use in text slection mode? All advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Take care. Mike - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Well, were there periods [full stops] in it as well? If so, I don't know why sentences were not included in the order. If not, then I have explained it. (unless there is now a difference in Microsoft word itself? I'm using word 2002. it's been word, sentence, paragraph, document, since office 97 at least.) - Original Message - From: Kimsan ksong8...@msn.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Ok, my question basically was when doing text selection is it suppose to say word, sentence, paragraph and document? I noted in my previous message that when I was at another machine an went into text selection mode I did not hear the sentence option and just wanted to know does text selection differ from machine-to-machine and if it doesn't how come I did not get the sentence option from the other machine and only word, paragraph and document? Predictability wasn't part of my concern. I hope my question had more clarification this time around. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[JAWS-Users] text selection mode
I have a question concerning text selection mode in word. If memory serves me correctly, when pressing the function key eight, it will take you into text selection mode and you can select word, sentence, paragraph or document. So, my question are as follows. 1.. In order to use this am I needing to have it set at printview? (or does that matter) 2.. Does the sentence need to have periods or some sort of punctuation? I asked this because I was at another computer today, I believe it was an IBM laptop and when I did function key eight, it said, word, paragraph and document. How come there wasn't an option for sentence? Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode
Kimsan, If the sentence does not have a period to end it, how is Microsoft word to know that there really is a sentence? It doesn't matter the view that's set: Selection Mode should work just as well. - Original Message - From: Kimsan ksong8...@msn.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:54 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode I have a question concerning text selection mode in word. If memory serves me correctly, when pressing the function key eight, it will take you into text selection mode and you can select word, sentence, paragraph or document. So, my question are as follows. 1.. In order to use this am I needing to have it set at printview? (or does that matter) 2.. Does the sentence need to have periods or some sort of punctuation? I asked this because I was at another computer today, I believe it was an IBM laptop and when I did function key eight, it said, word, paragraph and document. How come there wasn't an option for sentence? Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode
Ok, my question basically was when doing text selection is it suppose to say word, sentence, paragraph and document? I noted in my previous message that when I was at another machine an went into text selection mode I did not hear the sentence option and just wanted to know does text selection differ from machine-to-machine and if it doesn't how come I did not get the sentence option from the other machine and only word, paragraph and document? Predictability wasn't part of my concern. I hope my question had more clarification this time around. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode
Well, were there periods [full stops] in it as well? If so, I don't know why sentences were not included in the order. If not, then I have explained it. (unless there is now a difference in Microsoft word itself? I'm using word 2002. it's been word, sentence, paragraph, document, since office 97 at least.) - Original Message - From: Kimsan ksong8...@msn.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Ok, my question basically was when doing text selection is it suppose to say word, sentence, paragraph and document? I noted in my previous message that when I was at another machine an went into text selection mode I did not hear the sentence option and just wanted to know does text selection differ from machine-to-machine and if it doesn't how come I did not get the sentence option from the other machine and only word, paragraph and document? Predictability wasn't part of my concern. I hope my question had more clarification this time around. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode
There were no periods. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode
Hi Flor, I am running Word 2002 also, but when I press the F8 key to activate the text selection mode, then press the F8 key again to go from word, to sentence, to paragraph, to document Jaws reads word or document . Am I trying to choose the text choice in which I want to select text incorrectly? If so, what are the correct keystrokes to use in text slection mode? All advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Take care. Mike - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Well, were there periods [full stops] in it as well? If so, I don't know why sentences were not included in the order. If not, then I have explained it. (unless there is now a difference in Microsoft word itself? I'm using word 2002. it's been word, sentence, paragraph, document, since office 97 at least.) - Original Message - From: Kimsan ksong8...@msn.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] text selection mode Ok, my question basically was when doing text selection is it suppose to say word, sentence, paragraph and document? I noted in my previous message that when I was at another machine an went into text selection mode I did not hear the sentence option and just wanted to know does text selection differ from machine-to-machine and if it doesn't how come I did not get the sentence option from the other machine and only word, paragraph and document? Predictability wasn't part of my concern. I hope my question had more clarification this time around. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
