David, the alt+x must be a feature in JAWS 17? because I'm using J16 and
alt+x gives me a ding sound.
the way I know is to navigate to the character and press the numpad 5
three times quickly. this should give the ASCII value or the Unicode if
it is a symbol. then just press the numpad 5 key once to toggle off the
mode, because if you keep navigating character by character, you'll get
the ASCII/unicode of the next/previous character/symbol.
I'm not sure what the laptop equivalent would be if you don't have a numpad.
On 3/2/2016 5:18 AM, David Bailes wrote:
Hi Tim,
I think the following should work in word - I've tested it in wordpad.
To find out the hex value of a character, move to the character after
that character and press alt+x. The character is replaced by the hex
value, and this value is selected. You can go back to the original
character by pressing alt+x again.
Notes:
1. normally using alt+x, is used for inserting Unicode characters using
their hex value, rather than the other way round.
2. This won't word for the characters a,b,c,d,e, and f, because they're
used in hex.
David.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:11 am, Tim Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I have a document that has, scattered throughout, a lot of
mysterious consecutive characters that I want to delete globally
using Word. However, JAWS describes them only as “blank” (without
the “). I vaguely recall back in my DOS days about being able to
enter the ASCII number for a character to produce it. Is there a
keystroke in JAWS whereby I can put my cursor on the mysterious
character, and find out what it is in terms of an ASCII number, then
enter that into the global search and replace?
Tim Ford
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