[bksvol-discuss] Re: Kurzweil Tip

  • From: Nimit Kaur Gmail <kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:28:12 -0500

Yes you can use the same keystrokes in word and jaws does announce the font 
while pressing those keys.  In addition jaws does say mix font if needed.  
Nimit 

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On Jan 12, 2013, at 10:04 PM, "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That's the same keystrokes you can use in Word to increase or decrease font 
> size.  One caveat:  If, for some reason the segment for which you want to 
> change the font has more than one font size, it will tell you "mixed" and you 
> have to correct that before you work with the sizing.
>  
> Sandi
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evan Reese
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 4:22 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Kurzweil Tip
> 
> Hey K1000 Users,
>  
> I accidentally discovered a timesaving tip. I needed to create a pagebreak 
> with the control-enter key combo, but hit control-left bracket instead and 
> discovered that that is how you can reduce the font size of selected text by 
> one point. Naturally, control-right bracket increases the font size by one 
> point. Just keep hitting that combo if you need to reduce or increase font 
> size by multiple points. I never knew this. It's probably in the manual, 
> which I read a good bit of quite a long while ago. If I read about a 
> keystroke to change font size, I forgot about it; but I may have never even 
> read it. Now I think I will go and see what other nifty keystrokes might be 
> in there.
>  
> I thought I'd post this for any others of you who might not know that you 
> don't need to go into the menus to alter font size.
>  
> Evan
>  

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