Jaws and Reading Text, finding first words in line and sentence
- From: "Brian J Hubbard" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:30 -0400
Hi,
I can't believe I am asking this as it is so basic. But it seems as if I have
had issues with basic reading of text, especially in MS Word, since I upgraded
to 8.0 [I realize the current is 9.0]
I am an author and currently working on a manuscript, this is why reading text
is so crucial to me. I spent about an hour on the 'help' menu last night, but
got nowhere. The problem I am having in reading text is very elementary, I
cannot find the keystroke to go to the beggining of the line, nor at the
beginning of a sentence. While I use the up arrow on the numpad [8] to find
the previous line and the down arrow on the numpad [2] to go to the next line,
the curser lands on a random word and I have to fumble with my left and right
arrows to find the exact word that I want my curser on. The help menu said to
use 'home' [7]to land on first word of the line, and Alt, plus up arrow on the
keyboard to find the first word of the sentence, but when I do this nothing
happens. Actually, when I use Alt+up arrow, it brings me to the first word of
the next paragraph. I often have to do a word search to find the exact word,
which is cumbersome. Believe it or not, I am an advanced computer user, but
editing my writing is becoming really challenging. While I know essentially
all of the keystrokes for reading text, finding the first word in the line, as
well as the first word in a sentence I am on has been challenging. These are
crucial navigational keys for editing text in an efficient manner. Again, I
use Jaws 8.0 with Windows XP and MS Word. I really would appreciate a reply at
early convenience.
Thanks,
Brian
Brian J. Hubbard, LICSW
brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.brianjhubbard.com
www.EmpowermentTherapy.com
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