Hi, The list of spelling errors has been changed to "alt + shift + L". Grammar check is still "ctrl + shift + G". Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: Margaret Thomas To: jfw Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:27 AM Subject: Correcting Spelling in Word 2000 JFW6.0 Good Afternoon All, I was going through some old posts I saved and found a tip I wanted to try, but am not getting to work here with XP Home with Sp2, Word 2000, and JAWS 6.0. Apparently, the tip was written when JFW 3.7 was the latest version out and maybe changes in JAWS since then have negated the tip or I could easily be missing something, or need to change some of my settings to have it work. "forwarded message Kelly, good description. I leave the "check spelling as you type" always checked in Word. Incidentally, in the JAWS 3.7 verbosity list, the "Announce Proofreading Information" has 3 states which can be toggled. The first, which is the default, is off, or do not detect spelling or grammar errors. The second is "detect spelling and grammatical errors". And the third is "detect spelling and grammatical errors and count errors on line". This third state is my favorite. If you choose the second item the only time you hear errors is if you move across or into a word by moving around one word at a time. The third choice tells you the number of errors on any given line by just pressing an up or down arrow to move to that line. Now, for a new feature that many of you may not know about. We all know that the F7 key starts the spell check in Word. However, and this is good, JAWS reads first the misspelled word and spells it, then JAWS reads the suggested word and spells it. This is great for beginners. But for more experienced users, a quicker way has been added to JAWS to allow you to correct spelling errors without having to use F7 and listen to all of that chatter. The keystroke is Control+Shift+E (for errors). Press this and you get a vertical list of all of the spelling errors in a document. Press up or down arrow to go through the list of errors. When you find a word that you want to correct, just press ENTER from within this error list and the list will close, and you will be on the misspelled word within the document, with your cursor at the beginning of the word. Next, press Shift+F10 or press the Windows applications key, and you will get a context menu for that misspelled word. Since it is a context menu, and nothing is highlighted, JAWS will not say anything, but if you press down arrow, you will land on the first suggested replacement word and JAWS will read it. If this word is the correct word, simply press ENTER and the word is replaced in the document and your cursor is now at the end of the word. You can spell words within the context menu with JAWS by pressing Insert+5+5 (on the number pad). This new method of spell checking a document requires that the "check spelling as you type" check box in the Options menu of Word is checked. The nice thing about this is that you can go through a list of misspelled words in a document without having to listen to both the wrong word and the suggested word being both read and spelled, so it can be much faster. Again, more experienced computer users would be the ones that I see using this feature more than beginners. Another keystroke in JAWS, Control+Shift+G will give you a list of grammatical errors within a document in Word, although I tend to use this less than the spell check. If you have not yet tried the Control+Shift+E keystroke in Word, I encourage you to try it. You will find it makes spell checking a lot faster. If you want to ignore a word that comes up in this list, just move over it and ignore it and go on to the next word. Try it out and see what you all think." JAWS says nothing at all with Control-Shift-E when I'm at the beginning of the document. I've tried hitting Control-Shift-E after hitting F-7, but JAWS doesn't speak as described in the tip. I have check spelling as you type checked. My verbosity options are set to Advanced. There are no other versions of JAWS on the machine at present. Thanks for any help anyone can offer on this. Margaret iluvtoread@xxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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