Hi Susie, Try the steps below for making the changes in your configuration manager / customize punctuation.
When making changes in the customize punctuation list, if you do not want Jaws to speak/recognize a particular punctuation mark you want to choose the " all " selection. You will have 4 radio buttons to arrow up or down through. They are none, some, most, & all. In these selections they work backwards than what you would think. For example; If you choose " none " for the dollar sign, Jaws will speak / recognize every dollar sign in whatever you are reading. On the other hand, if you choose the " all " radio button, Jaws will not speak / recognize any dollar signs. To make a change to a particular punctuation sign follow the steps below. 1. Press Jaws/insert key + 6 on the number row for configuration manager. 2. Press control,shift, +D , to select the default configuration manager, then press alt + S to open the default configuration manager. 3. Press the letter" P " or arrow down to customize punctuation and press enter. 4. You are now in a list of punctuation marks. Arrow down the list and when you have the punctuation mark you want to change highlighted, tab 1 time to the radio buttons that I mentioned earlier. 5. Keeping in mind what I mentioned earlier about these choices working backwards, check the box in this list, in your case not wanting any exclamation marks spoken, choose the all button. 6. Now, if you want to make a change to another punctuation mark, shift tab back to the list and highlight a different punctuation mark, tab back to the radio buttons and check the box you prefer. 7. After you are done making your changes tab to okay and press enter. 8. Press control + S to save your changes and Alt +F4 to close the default configuration manager and you are done. Now, I hope that you are not as confused as I am after typing all of this. LOL Hope this has helped. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and puntuation Welcome to our little group. You can suppress the exclamation point by using the JAWS Dictionary Manager. Press JAWS key-D to launch it and then Shift-Control-D to bring up the default dictionary manager to apply this change to all applications. Select the Add dialog, and in the Actual Word edit field type "!" (without quotes) and in the Replacement Word field, hit the Space bar. Then tab to Okay and close the Dictionary Manager. Now, whenever JAWS encounters an exclamation point, its pronunciation will be silenced. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Q" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:39 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and puntuation > Hi All; > I am having a dilemma with my JAWS, and punctuation.I have my JAWS set to > sum in the punctuation, so JAWS does not say the punctuation, such as > question, > colon, semi colon, and so on, and it is working the way it is supposed to, > but for one thing, it keeps saying exclaim when I use the exclamation > mark, > This is annoying, as I am a writer, and I don't like it to say the > exclaim. So can some one tell me how to fix this problem? Every thing is > right, and > I even tried to put it to say none, but it still says exclaim. > Tomorrow Is Always Fresh With Know Mistakes In It Yet! > Anne Of Green Gables > Tomorrow Is Always Fresh With Know Mistakes In It Yet! > Anne Of Green Gables > 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/
