[bksvol-discuss] Re: turning off insert mode with jaws in Word
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:07:16 -0500
Dear Jackie Cindy Lou Ray, and Ann,
Thank you for the valuable computer lessons. I'll know what to do the next
time letters start vanishing every time I try typing in corrections.
I've been experimenting with Control alt i and found it says it's toggling
between insert and overtype modes.
It seems to me that my default in word is insert mode. Is that right?
Can anyone tell me in what kind of situation overtype mode would actually
help anyone? You can delete normally in it, but how does it help if every
time you type a letter, the letter to the right disappears. It seems to me
this mode destroys anything it touches.
I must have my settings incorrectly set because the insert key in the six
pack and the jaws one on the num pad still don't say or seem to do anything
when I press them by themselves, as far as I can tell.
The important thing is that Cindy Lou's control, alt i gets me out of
overtype mode without having to shut down my computer!
Ann, I like the way you backtrack to figure out how a person may have made a
mistake in the first place. I do use control home to go to the beginning of
a validation or to the top of documents.
In the case of overwriting, I use control I to turn italics on and off. For
example if a book I'm validating should have words in italics but they
aren't, I highlight them and press control i and the computer says italics
on and the words become italicized. Control u turns underlining on and off
and I use that, too. In a recent book I validated, the page numbers for the
first fifty of about 200 pages were underlined. I didn't know how to do this
quickly, but on each page, I highlighted the number and, control u made the
underlining go off. This keystroke makes the computer do the opposite of
what it sees in a highlighted word. For example, if the word is italicized
and you don't want it to be, highlighting it and pressing control i makes
jaws say italics off and the word is in regular font. This is faster than
highlighting the word and using alt O to go to the options menu, entering on
the top line which is font, and tabbing to the second spot and arrowing up
to get off italics to regular font and back tabbing to OK and entering.
How do I know this? I'm terrible at manuals. I found the Control i and u by
myself by accident over lots of time.
In this case, I was probably turning Italics on or off and accidentally
pressed the alt key at the same time and never noticed jaws warning me about
what I'd done.
I'm sure I would never have discovered the function of control alt i by
myself.
Thank you all so much.
And, Jackie, next time, I'll call. You are very patient with those of us who
think manuals were written to cause instant insanity, and who get fumble
fingered and intellectually unplugged when they try and solve computer
problems alone or with help.
Always with love,
Lissi
Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:02 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: turning off insert mode with jaws in Word
You were in over type mode, not insert mode. Insert mode is what you
are in when you are able to add things; overtype takes out letters. It
is alt-ctrl-i.
Cindy Lou Ray
Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 12:20 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] turning off insert mode with jaws in Word
Dear Booksharian Friends,
Two nights ago while validating in Microsoft word 2003, I think, with
JAWS
8.0, without meaning to change things, letters began disappearing when
I
tried to edit. When I inserted a letter, the letter following it
disappeared, so each change created a new problem.
I found a more time consuming way to continue working by moving to a
new
line and inserting what I needed where no letters followed and then
using
backspace to reconnect the word.
Since I know Jamie works in word, I asked her off list about the
problem and
she guessed I'd somehow gotten into something called insert mode which
I'd
never heard of but which sounded like a probable cause of my problem.
I searched through Word's menus and couldn't figure out what I should
change. Then I wondered if there was a JAWS related command I should
be
using.
By closing my validation file, shutting down my computer and
restarting, the
problem disappeared on its own.
Does anyone know how I can turn insert mode off if this should happen
again.
It has happened before, but then I just shut down without asking about
a
solution.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Always with love,
Lissi
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