Hi all,
I just saw this thread. Has anyone mentioned that you can keep appending
text to the clip board with JAWS with command windows+JAWS Key+C? You can
just select the text and keep pressing that command after you have copied
the first text to the clip board. Then, you can read and edit the contents
of the clip board with the command: insert+space and then press c. The
material on the clip board opens up and you can select what you want and put
it where you want into the document and all of that. Take care.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Spratt
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 12:42 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text
Annette,
I can add one more useful function for the f8 command, although it doesn't
help with the noncontiguous text subject of this thread. As the instructions
you quote indicate, press F8 and listen for what it says. With the first
press, JAWS doesn't verbalize anything. I'll come back to that. With the
second, JAWS says "word." With the third, JAWS says either 'sentence" or
paragraph." If the paragraph consists of a single sentence, MS and JAWS
don't bother with the "sentence." In the event a paragraph is more than one
sentence, JAWS will say "paragraph" after a fourth press.
The reason f8 says nothing after the first press is that it is waiting for a
second key to be pressed. This is because you can select any portion of text
if you've predetermined it by adding an unusual symbol at the end point. If
I'm in a literary essay, it's unlikely that the @ sign will appear. So, I
mark the end point of my selection with @, then return to the beginning. I
press f8, then @, and everything between those two points is selected. In
other documents (such as ones with email addresses), I'll use a percentage
or some other sign that is unlikely to appear in the particular document.
Note. To simplify getting back to the start point, I usually mark it with
double asterisks, which I search for after marking the end point.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Annette Carr
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 11:59 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text
Hi,
Your idea is a great one. It is so frustrating when you are trying to
format a document and somehow you fail to apply the same attributes to each
desired set of text.
I did a little bit of research and have not found a solution to accomplish
the selection of non-continuous text in a Word document. I was hoping that
one of the F8 Extended Selection Mode commands were going to work in word as
they do in a drop down list, or something like that. The only thing that I
could find in the JAWS help about using F8 is the following:
Selection Mode: F8 is used to turn Extended Selection mode on. Subsequent
presses of F8 select the current word, sentence, paragraph and document.
JAWS announces the unit being selected and the text of that unit. Other
navigational keys can also be used to extend the selection. Use ESC to exit
Extended Selection Mode.
I thought there were other commands such as Shift+F8, Control+F8 and/or
Shift+Control+F8, but I could not find any references to this in any of the
JAWS17 help options.
My next thought is to see if it is possible to use some combination of the
mouse keyboard commands to simulate what sighted users do with the mouse.
I'll add it to my list of things to try out when I have some time.
Annette
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From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of abdulaziz dapilin
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 10:28 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text
Thanks. Have just realized that perhaps the exact thing can't happen as of
now. Maybe in the future. When selecting non-contiguous text, or even items
from a list view, user needs to hold down the control while navigating to
the next text or item to be selected. There's no problem when selecting
non-contiguous items in a list view with keyboard.
However, I wonder how to do it in a document. Sounds impossible because we
also use control key in text navigation, and pressing any arrow keys will
immediately unselect selected text.
On 4/24/16, Adrian Spratt <adr...@adrianspratt.com> wrote:
My sense is that JAWS operates too linearly for this to work as you
describe. However, this idea occurs to me as a workaround. With your
main document open, start a new one in which you pre-set the font
attributes you want to apply to the passages in question. Then use
MS's paste special
(control-alt-v) to paste each item into this second file. If it works,
the first passage will be formatted the way you want, and then you can
substitute it in the original file, again using the paste special command.
Note that in this command, you select the format with the up and down
arrows.
I haven't tested this idea, and it may take a little tweaking. I also
realize it wouldn't be as fast as what you'd like to do, but it would
certainly be faster than reformatting each passage every time.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com]
On Behalf Of abdulaziz dapilin
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 1:35 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text
What I meant is not for copying and pasting. Here's the scenario. I
would like to select non-contiguous text in a large document to apply
format and attribute changes at ones. For sighted user, they simply
accomplish the task by holding down the control while selecting text
from different parts of the document using the mouse pointer. I don't
know if it is possible to do it solely with the keyboard.
On 4/24/16, Kimsan <kimsans...@outlook.com> wrote:
Noncontiguous so each word would not be selected.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com]
On Behalf Of Pinky
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 8:35 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text
Hi,
To copy one word at a time hold down the ctrl+shift key then right
arrow for all the words you want to highlight. As you arrow right
Jaws will announce the words that are being highlighted.
Then after you have highlighted just press the Ctrl+C to copy then go
to where you want to put the copied text and then just press the
Ctrl+V to paste it where you want them.
If you want to select all the words on a page just do ctrl+A then
Ctrl+C to copy then ctrl+V to paste.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com]
On Behalf Of abdulaziz dapilin
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 9:21 PM
To: jaws-users-list
Subject: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text
Hi folks. I wonder how to or if its possible to select non-contiguous
text in word using keyboard. I am pretty sure that for users who
could use mouse pointer it is possible. Have anybody from this group
knows how to do it using the keys?
Thanks in advance.
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