Here are the shortcuts used for the VoiceNote. (note: Some of these
commands do not apply if you just have the VoiceNote with the Qwerty
Keyboard and no Braille display. Otherwise, excepting the thumbkey
commands, the commands are the same.
1. Shortcuts available anywhere in KeySoft
Keyboard settings: Function with K
Review Voice: Function with R.
Next appointment: Function with N.
User Guide: Read with Help
Date Announcement: Function with D.
Time Announcement: Function with T.
Stopwatch: Function with W.
KeyWord: Function with 4.
KeyPlus: Function with 5.
KeyPlan: Function with 6.
KeyList: Function with 7.
KeyMail: Function with 8.
KeyBook: Function with 9.
KeyWeb: Function with 0.
Terminal for screen reader: Menu Key, then T.
Cycle through programs: Function with S.
Repeat prompt or message: Repeat Key.
Repeat and spell prompt or message: Function with L. This is useful for
speech-only users in finding out the spelling of E-mail addresses in
headers, and questioned and suggested words in the spell-checker.
Repeat and announce punctuations in prompt or message: Function with P.
2. Switch-on Keystrokes
Switch on BrailleNote with speech on request: Hold down shift key while
switching on.
Switch on BrailleNote with Braille display turned off: Hold down Ctrl Key
while switching on.
Switch on BrailleNote with both speech and display turned on: Hold down
Ctrl Key with Shift while switching on.
3. Not so Familiar Thumb Key Commands
Route cursor to the beginning of the displayed line: Back with Advance.
Set preferred text document reading grade: Next with Advance;
Cycle through preferred reading grade to have on-the-fly translation to
contracted Braille when reading text files, 6-dot for no translation and
upper case indicator, or 8-dot for no translation but with dot 7 in the
same cell as the upper-case character.
Back a word: Previous with Back.
Forward a word: Previous with Advance.
Move to previous sentence/line, paragraph`/section, or row in the same
column where the cursor sits: Previous; the type of movement depends on
the setting of the "Function of Previous and Next" thumb keys, in the
Braille Display Options.
Move to next sentence/line, paragraph`/section, or row in the same column
where the cursor sits: Next; the type of movement depends on the setting
of the "Function of Previous and Next" thumb keys, in the Braille Display
Options.
Display line where the word questioned by the spellchecker is found:
Advance or Back.
Display calculation formula in KeyPlus: Previous with Next.
Previous record: Previous; where "Record" may refer to an appointment in
the planner, E-mail, a database record, or browser history item.
Next record: Next; where "Record" may refer to an E-mail, a database
record, or browser history item.
Check progress of E-mail download and freeing of database space: Next.
Abandon application, E-mail download or freeing of database space, an
option accidentally entered such as Find or Search and Replace, or exit a
menu/submenu: Previous.
4. Not Commonly Known Commands Used in Lists and Menus
Toggle between folder and directory modes: Ctrl with T. Where the
directory mode lets the user move to sub-layers of folders, like in a
jree-view list.
Move up one directory level: Read with 7. This is used when in directory
mode and the path being offered is not the root directory to which this
command will take the user, analogous to moving back to level 0 in a
tree-view list.
Change drive: Ctrl with D.
Cycle forward through most recently visited folders/directories: Read with
9. Executed at the folder/directory name prompt.
Cycle back through most recently visited folder/directories: Read with 7.
Executed at the folder/directory name prompt.
Cycle forward through most recently opened documents: Read with 9.
Executed at the file name prompt.
Cycle back through most recently opened documents: Read with 7. Executed
at the file name prompt.
Cycle through the available options for a setting in a menu: Ctrl with
Space. This is used when you do not know the hotkey for an option to a
setting.
Skip the "Review Previous Options?" prompt when you open non-KeyWord
files: While cursor is on the file to be opened, press ENTER twice rather
than once.
Suppress "Document Has Been Modified, Save as a KeyWord Document?" prompt
upon exiting non-KeyWord text documents: Type S, and you will no longer
get that prompt when you modify and exit that file.
5. Shortcuts Available Within Documents or E-mail Messages Being Composed
Insert the time: Ctrl with 4. This makes it unnecessary to enter the
Insert Menu by selecting from the Options Menu.
Insert calculator result: Ctrl with 5. This makes it unnecessary to enter
Insert Menu by selecting from the Options Menu.
Insert the date: Ctrl with 6. Press T for today's date or P for Printing
Date. this makes it unnecessary to enter Insert Menu by selecting from
the Options Menu.
Move to start of next line marked by the soft line-break indicator shown
as Read with Space. Line indicators, unlike new line markers, cannot be
deleted and are inserted by KeyWord if word wrap is turned on.
Page up key: Function with Up Arrow.
Page down key: Function with Down Arrow.
Next tab position: Read with Apostrophe.
Mark word: From within the Block Menu, Read with K.
Mark sentence or line: From within the Block Menu, Read with I.
Mark paragraph or section: From within the Block Menu, Read with 8.
Mark top of block: Backspace with M. Note that for all block commands,
except for "move block", you can just position the cursor at the end of
the block and execute a block command, even without a "bottom-of-block"
marker, except in KeyWeb where this does not work.
Switch Keyboard entry to grade 1 Braille: Ctrl with g, then 1.
Switch Keyboard entry to grade 2 Braille: Ctrl with g, then 2.
Switch Keyboard entry to Computer Braille: Ctrl with G, then C.
Switch Keyboard entry to Qwerty keystrokes: Ctrl with G, then Q.
beStyle of presentation: Ctrl with Y. P for paragraph, H for heading, S
for sub-heading, O for outline, L for lines, or I for "identical to
source".
Center line: Ctrl with E.
Right justify line: Ctrl with R.
Underline: Ctrl with U, then N to turn it on, or F to turn it off.
Font: Ctrl with T. This is used to select a font type like B for bold, I
for italics, S for superscript, T for subscrift, etc., where pressing N
after the font type hotkey turns it on and F turns it off.
6. Shortcuts to Items in the Format Menu
Layout list for that document type (Braille for Braille, ink-print for
text): Ctrl with L.
Page settings list for that document type (Braille for braille, ink-print
for text): Ctrl with P.
Braille settings menu for text documents: Read with Ctrl with B.
Ink-print settings menu for Braille documents: Read with Ctrl with B.
Braille page settings for text, Ink-print page settings for Braille,
documents: Read with Ctrl with B, then P.
Braille layout list for text, Ink-print layout list for Braille,
documents: Read with Ctrl with L.
Braille (for text) Ink-print (for Braille) only inclusions: Read with Ctrl
with N.
Start Braille (for text) Ink-print (for Braille) exclusions: Read with
Ctrl with X.
End Braille (for text) Ink-print (for Braille) exclusion: Read with Ctrl
with Y.
Braille (for text) Ink-print (for Braille) translation options: Ctrl with
O.
Translator control: Read with Ctrl with B, then C.
Braille grade, qwery or change: Ctrl with G
Grade to use when translating text into Braille: Read with Ctrl with B,
then G. Then, type 1 for grade one, 2 for grade two, C for Computer
Braille, or P for preferred reading grade.
Template Menu: Ctrl with A.
Insert field: Ctrl with A, then I.
Force inclusion of line: Ctrl with A, then F.
Start conditional suppression: Ctrl with A, then S.
End conditional suppression: Ctrl with A, then E.
Mark comment line: Ctrl with A, then M.
(note: If you have made changes to the settings in the Format Menu, you
can set current configurations at the initial settings for new files: Ctrl
with S.)
Revert to the initial settings when file was created: Ctrl with R.
7. Commands That Work on Fields or Prompts
(Note: The following commands are available when on database fields,
E-mail headers, the web address prompt, Planner appointment fields, the
"Find and Search and Replace" prompts, file/folder name prompts, and
practically anywhere in KeySoft where the user cannot enter the Block
Commands Menu but would like to access the "Copy and Paste" Options.)
Copy field entry to clipboard: Ctrl with C. This can also be used to copy
the Stopwatch result to the clipboard. Paste first line in clipboard to a
field: Ctrl with V.
Clear current fields: Ctrl with Backspace. This is also an alternative
command to clear the Stopwatch, aside from Ctrl with I.
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