RE: Creating Lines In MS Word Using Jaws
- From: "Marquette, Ed" <Ed.Marquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:34:42 -0500
To create a horizontal lime, there are at least 3, and possibly more, ways to
do it.
1. Create a JAWS script that writes an underline character in a loop that
repeats the number of times that equals the width of your page. On an 8.5 inch
document with one inch margins, that should be 64 or 65.
2. Create a Word macro that presses the underline character 65 times. This is
essentially the same as the above, but done in Word.
3. This is what I recommend. Type in enough underline characters that you
exactly fill one line. You will break when you get to the end. If JAWS is set
to announce line breaks, you'll hear it. Otherwise, you'll discover you have
two lines. If you do, just backspace until you have one line. Highlight this
new line, go into the Insert menu with Alt plus I. Then, arrow down to
AutoText. Hit enter on "new." Name your line something distinctive like "lll"
and hit enter. The next time you want this line, in any Word document, just
insert the AutoText entry "lll" or whatever you have named it.
Jaws, if "say repeats" is turned on, will say underline, underline, underline
when you come to it. You can also search for this line by simply searching
for 2 or 3 underline characters.
I just tested this last method. Works like a charm.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Samara Raine
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:04 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Creating Lines In MS Word Using Jaws
Heya guys. I need to create a line in my word document that resembles a
horizontal rule like on webpages. I'm not planning on turning my document into
html, but I want a line to separate different parts of the document. A line I
can see. Or, at least, a line jaws can see if you take my meaning. You know how
when you come across a horizontal rule on a webpage, jaws hits it and you go
Oh! That's a section marker or Hey, that's a section break. You know it
separates two sections.
Placing the different parts of my document into different sections won't work.
Sure, jaws says there's a section break, but I don't see it. I'd like to know
if there's any jaws keystroke that would enable me to make a horizontal line
straight across the page that jaws could notice. I know if I press the dash key
three times and hit enter, ms word's supposed to do something, but jaws doesn't
pick it up.
Any ideas, guys?
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