Re: text selection with f8

  • From: "Philip Hall" <phall-eml1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:26:48 -0400

just press escape.

phil

----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Selfridge" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:08 PM
Subject: RE: text selection with f8


Say folks,
When you do the F8 selection how do you turn off the "select mode"?
Cy, the Ancient Okie...

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Yardbird
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:20 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
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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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