Hi John, This thread pertains to Word 2010, hopefully 1 of the notes will help you:
Original Message From: Adrian Spratt Hi. I have a long document with passages that I want to locate by searching for bold text. I've located "bold" under "font" in MS Word 2010's control-f and control-h search functions. However, when I press "find next," nothing appears, even though the document has dozens of bolded passages. I infer that Word is waiting for me to enter text as well. Is that true? Can anyone suggest how to get MS word 2010 to produce search results for bold text without entering any text? Thanks. Adrian From: Ann Byrne I don't like control-f in Word 2010. I use alt-e, then f, which is the Word 2003 find. Then go to 'more' and check the font thing, which it sounds like you have done. Is there a 'find all' button? Maybe? I have always had good luck with this feature. Same to you! Ann From: Ann Byrne No, you don't have to search for text. But remember to read the results with insert-c. Testing it--shamefully, after writing--I did the following: 1. Alt-e, then f 2. Press the 'more' button 3. tabbed to format button, enter 4. tabbed to font ... enter 5. tabbed to font style and selected bold 6. tabbed to okay and pressed enter, which placed me on the first bolded text. 8. JAWS read nothing, so I pressed insert-c to read. 9. pressed enter for the next bolded text and insert-c again. Ann From: Adrian Spratt Ann, I can't figure out how alt-f/e is different from the control-f Word 2010 find function, and yet following your directions, it was in alt-e/f that I succeeded. I find the process unduly cumbersome, almost as if skipping through the document would take up as much time, but not quite. A time saver, for anyone interested. If you leave the find dialog to edit but you want to resume your search for the same item, go back into find with alt-e, then f, and then press alt-f. this lands you on the next instance of your previous search term. Thanks, Ann, yet again. Adrian From: Jean Hi Adrian I think this might speed things up for you. I also prefer the Alt-E F search. Once in the search box, just type control-B. Jaws won't say anything, but it will be searching for the bold attribute. Note that you could also use control-I for italic or control-U for underlining here. Don't type any text if you just want to search for the atribute. Once you find your first occurrence, press escape to exit the find dialogue. If you have attributes set to read, you can then read the line or passage easily. Now the best part. To repeat the search and find the next bold, just press alt-control-Y in your document. . Remember when you're done, go into the search dialogue againe with alt-E and F, shift-tab and choose No Formatting. Jean From: Adrian Spratt The news gets better and better. Thanks for these shortcuts, Jean. I knew all this stuff in WordPerfect, but I had to abandon it because JAWS no longer supports it. Adrian Take care. Mike Global warming? Most likely caused from hot air generated by politicians! ----- Original Message ----- From: john r [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 11:02 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] finding bolded text List, I am involved in my homeowners association as a board member. A member has done a draft of new by-laws. He has noted changed with bolded text. Anyone have a thought on how best to find each occurrence of bolded text. I have been looking around to find the answer myself but I am in a time crunch. Thanks for any input. John in sunny southwest Florida 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/
