[bksvol-discuss] Re: stuck on page 244, Computer help, Please?

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:48:03 -0600

Hi Sarah,

I use a Braille display and am wondering if you have to hold down the left
shift, or can it be the right shift??  If I used right shift I coulld read
the displayi while selecting.

Sue S.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: stuck on page 244, Computer help, Please?


> Unfortunately Word doesn't have a command to select a page.  I tried
> Shift-Control-PageDown just to make sure and it didn't select anything.
> You will have to select the page or pages you want to move line by line.
> Just place your cursor right after the page break on the page you want to
> move.  Hold down shift and press Down Arrow listening to what is selected
> on each press of the down arrow.  When you hear PageBreak again you will
> know that the whole first page of text has been selected.  If you want
more
> pages continue to hold down shift and pressing DownArrow.  The lat thing
> you should slect is a PageBreak.  Now that you have all the text you want
> selected press Control-X.  It won't matter how much you move around in the
> document after you have cut the text you want to move to the clipboard, so
> now you can just move to the top of the page where you want to insert
those
> pages.  Hitting Control-PageDown works pretty well to find the top of the
> desired page.  Before pasting the cut pages make sure your cursor is just
> after the PageBreak and then hit Control-V.
>
> Now if your screen reader continued to cooperate for the whole procedure
> things are just great.  I am just very impatient with selecting huge
> amounts of text in that tedious way, and you can't stop selecting to look
> around and make sure you are doing what you intended because then the
> selecting is lost.
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> Assistive Technology Trainer
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:45 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] stuck on page 244, Computer help, Please?
>
>
> Dear Volunteers,
>
> Near the end of my current validation project, I have been stopped cold by
> my lack of understanding of how to work with Microsoft Word in the rich
> text format I downloaded from Bookshare.
>
> 4 pages are out of order as in 246, 247, 244, 245. I tried to highlight
246
> and 247 and place them after 245, but I'm not succeeding and am not
> understand the help files I've tried to use as instruction. I thought I
> should highlight the 2 pages to be moved, but then arrowing erases the
> highlighting. Then I thought find and replace could help, but I don't know
> how it would since I want to move something.....
>
> As usual, I don't even know how to phrase my question, but I'd appreciate
> any suggestions . I really regret not being perceptive enough to help
> myself more.
>
> Julie, if you are reading this, your new quote is great.
>
> Always With love,
>
> Lissi
>
>
>
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