[bksvol-discuss] Re: long Dash
- From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:36:12 -0600
Hi, Evan. In JAWS version 7 or later, there is a neat feature called Append to
the Clipboard, which is handy if you are on the Internet searching for and
copying multiple pages of information to be placed later in a word processing
file. The function for this is Windows key C (between the Alt and Control key
on the left). This keeps adding to the clipboard. Then the next time you
press Control C for copy, it will ask if you want to overwrite everything that
is already in the clipboard. Unfortunately this append to the clipboard
doesn't work in Kurzweil.
Linda Adams
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long Dash
Jill, if I understand things correctly, you are partially correct. As long as
you don't copy anything else to the clipboard, you can paste whatever's there
as many times as you like. I just tried this, so I know it works. But once you
turn off your computer, then I'm pretty sure that whatever you put in the
clipboard is lost.
Amy, I had used a variant of the copy and paste method before. When using
K1000, I would open up a document in Word or WordPad, or email, have JAWS put
the long dash, which it calls the em dash, into the document using its special
character menu, then copying and pasting it into the document I was working on
in K1000. But now I use the much easier method of just entering the ASCII
value, alt 0151, so that way I don't have to go hunting for a long dash, or
using that roundabout method. I did use your method a few times, if I happened
to know where there was a long dash in a book I was reading; but now I don't
have to go looking for one at all.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Jill O'Connell
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long Dash
I thought that once something had been copied and pasted, it no longer
existed or if the computer was turned off this was lost; am I wrong?
----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 4:17 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] long Dash
Like many others I have long tried various solutions for substitutes for
the long [wide?] dash since my keyboard does not have one. All to no avail.
Well, I finally found a workable solution: look for the nearest long dash and
"copy" - not cut - it and then paste it where you need it. It is so simple I
am surprised I had not heard it or read it here and I am sure someone must have
posted it but since I never saw it I thought I would share this method with you.
Amy
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