This problem is easily corrected. With Jaws 9 and 10, when you copy something from the web, the default is that all formatting from the original web page is retained. Depending on what you paste the selected text into, this may cause a problem. To change this, you need to open the Jaws verbosity options tree view while in your web browser and change the select and copy option. To accomplish this, do the following:
1. Open your web browser. 2. Press the Jaws key plus V to open the new tree view for Jaws options. 3. Press the down arrow key to find the option for select and copy. This is found under the virtual cursor options. You should have to press the down arrow key three or four times to find this option. 4. When you find the select and copy option, you can press the tab key to move to the help window. Use the say all command to read the help information for the select and copy option. 5. Use the shift tab key to move back to the tree view. Press the space bar to change the options for the select and copy option. To make the option work the way it did in earlier versions of Jaws where no special formatting from the web page is copied, select the "from virtual cursor" option. 6. Close the Jaws verbosity options window. This change is permanent and remains in effect even if you shutdown Jaws or your computer. The full content option is the default in Jaws 9 and 10 - this is what retains all formatting when copying text from a web page. I hope this helps, Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Victor Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:43 AM To: blind Computing Subject: [Blind-Computing] Problems Highlighting, Copying and Pasting Text Hi Folks, Like that other person who was having trouble, quite often, in fact, this happens all the time, when I go to copy text from a web page into a document, notepad, WordPad or e-mail, I get some kind of code instead of the text I've highlighted, copied and pasted. This is getting fairly troublesome, as I often do this type of copying and pasting to help friends with problems they may have, and where I find a relevant bit of text on the net that can help them. I'm using Jaws 10, latest build, Windows XP, Word 2003 and Outlook Express 6. As far as I know, all of my settings are configured properly with the configuration manager under highlighting options, and so I'm at a loss to understand why this is. I also have a problem where I am composing an e-mail, and, when I press the down arrow in combination with the shift key to select the text, the line will select, however, half of the words seem to be selected, as opposed to the word. I mean it's like that function, called smart highlighting or something like that, is turned off. I've also come across a time or two, where I want to highlight a few words in an e-mail message, whether reading to copy to another message, or just composing the message for copying and pasting to a spot further down in the message, or what ever, where, instead of the whole word being selected only, the entire word is selected, right along with half, or a few letters of the next word. Can anyone help me with this. Sorry for the long message, but I wasn't sure if those two things below were significant or not. Thanks all. Victor Co-moderator Blind Movie Buffs List Guidedogs List Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com
