Yes, highlighting the text and then typing worked for me using XP pro, Jaws
12.0.1170 and MS word 2007. Below is what FS tech support suggested which
also worked for me.
"Thank you for contacting Freedom Scientific technical Support. Try
performing the JAWS key+Number row 3 command prior to performing the
keystroke and see if the mode change."
Greg Washington
----- Original Message -----
From: "inthane" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in word 2007
ah friends if you select a word or phrase you automatically overwrite that
selected section, this is why this feature is normally not running with
jaws.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in word
2007
try alt+control+o (= overtype)? (Alt+ctrl+i was originally known as
'overwrite' mode.)
Someone was asking what it does. Normally, you are in insert mode, where
text follows along consecutively as you write. When you're in Overtype
Mode, you're filling in an existing space or template, *writing over*
existing characters, where the amount of text does not change.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Washington" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in word
2007
Dear Ann, Flor and Alex,
Thanks for your suggestions. However I still cannot get alt+control+i
to toggle over type on and off. I went into the tools menu in MS word
2007, went to options and went to advanced. The over type option was
not checked but neither was control over type with the insert key. So I
checked the use insert key option for controlling on and off over type
and left typeover unchecked. However when I press the alt+control+i key
jaws still says insert mode active. When I press it again it says the
same thing "insert mode active".
I then tried checking the allow over type key in the options menu but
then Jaws said typeover active when I pressed the alt+control+i key and
I could not go back to insert mode. It seems like for me the
alt+control+i key is either one or the other. I cannot get it to work
as a toggle switch.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Stone" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in word
2007
It'll be Word, not Jaws.
Cheers
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg
Washington
Sent: 23 August 2011 15:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in word
2007
Flor,
Thanks for the advice. Is the tools menu you reference in MS word or
in
Jaws?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in word
2007
You need to uncheck the overtype Mode checkbox. It used to be found in
the Tools | Options | Edit tab control.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Washington" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in
word
2007
Ann,
When I press alt+control+i Jaws announces insert mode active. When I
press those keys again it still says insert mode active and type over
is not activated. Am I doing something wrong?
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann byrne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to turn on and off type over mode in
word
2007
To toggle between typeover and insert modes, press alt-control-i.
At 08:21 AM 8/23/2011, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am using latest Jaws 12.0.1170 on a windows XP pro desktop
computer.
In word 2007 how do you turn on/off type over mode. Pressing the
insert key does not seem to work.
Greg
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