RE: text selection with f8
- From: "Cy Selfridge" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:08:47 -0500
Say folks,
When you do the F8 selection how do you turn off the "select mode"?
Cy, the Ancient Okie...
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Of Yardbird
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:20 PM
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Subject: Re: text selection with f8
Gary,
I just tried it out on a Word document. Perfect! I have to assume that when
I tried F8 a few times before this, I either didn't hear or didn't
understand when Jaws said the amount of text that was being selected. Had I
read up on it in the Help files (or read your own instruction), I would have
understood what I was hearing. But alas, I just got confused and didn't
learn to use the function properly.
Many thanks. This will be a real help in my editing of Word documents. And I
won't even have to go to law school or take a paralegal training course! :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: text selection with f8
Yardbird,
You can use F8 to select a word, sentence or a paragraph. After entering
Extended Selection mode with F8, just press F8 once, twice or three times,
respectively.
Gary King
w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: text selection with f8
> Dean,
>
> On a different context for this, here's something I've never figured out.
> In
> Word, that is. I think I remember that you could once select a sentence at
> a
> time in Word. Or was that a keyboard procedure in WordPerfect under DOS,
> years ay before I used a screen reader? I confess I can't remember. But I
> would dearly love to once more select just a sentence if I choose to, in
> one
> or two keystrokes. But all I've ever been able to manage with that F8
> trick
> is to turn it on, then use the only Windows text navigation commands I
> know,
> such as a word at a time, a line at a time, or pressing the down arrow to
> select more lines below. But no one-command way to press F8 and then have
> it
> select only a sentence. Am I out of luck?
> Thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: text selection with f8
>
>
> I can't replicate this problem. In Word, F8 isn't supposd in itself to
> select text. F8 turns on Extend Select mode, which enabled various easy
> ways to select text. In Internet Explorer, F8 selects the element under
> the
> cursor. Hence, if you have table announcement on, if you put the cursor
> on
> the line that says "table with x columns and y rows," then hit F8, the
> entire table is selected, and you can copy its contents. I don't notice
> any
> difference between functioning in JAWS 7 and 8.
>
> Dean
>
> At 12:56 PM 4/15/2007, you wrote:
>
> Brian:
>
> This is in response to a two-month old message; but I just dug it up
> while
> clearing out my inbox. Recently, I've noticed the same phenomenon after
> hupgrading to JFW 8, and I have a solution:
>
> When you are in the part of a Word document that you wish to cut or copy,
> don't press F8. Instead, go to the beginning of your block of text; then
> press and hold the SHFT key; then use arrow keys to go up or down,
> highlighting each line as you go while still holding down SHFT. When
> you've
> reached the end of your block, let up on SHFT, and then go through the
> usual
> procedure (CTRL+C to copy or CTRL+V to paste).
>
> I'm not sure why it works differently in version 8 of JAWS vs. 7, but it
> does work.
>
> -Kane
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian and Denise Albriton" <autoharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:04 AM
> Subject: text selection with f8
>
>
> > I've noticed using jaws eight that f8 does not select text. It speaks
> the
> > text of the element as it did before but when one tries to copy it
> > somewhere else there's no text to copy. This still works in jaws 7. Has
> > anyone else noticed something like this.
> > Brian
> >
> >
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