The mysterious characters I've found don't even say anything often. I am glad I know how to find out what their number is though. Cindy
-----Original Message----- From: Mario [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How can I use JAWS to identify a mysterious character? one thing I forgot to mention: it might be rare these days, but the mysterious "blank" might be a graphic of something, like a picture instead of a word, depending on it's context. On 3/2/2016 12:02 PM, David Bailes wrote: > Hi Mario, > > I'd forgotten about pressing numpad 5 three times, that's much easier. > (alt+x is a windows keystroke, rather than a Jaws keystroke) > > David. > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 06:36 am, Mario <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [email protected]. -=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View This Message (#39080): https://groups.io/g/jfw/message/39080 Mute This Thread: https://groups.io/mt/715147?uid=21656 Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/jfw/editsub?uid=21656 Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/jfw/leave/46502/1292106160/xyzzy Group Home: https://groups.io/g/jfw Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
