Re: Jaws and Reading Text, finding first words in line and sentence
- From: Judith Bron <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:23:34 -0400
Hi Brian, I am also an author and understand fully what you are up against. To
get to the first word of a line use the home key (the letter H in the six
pack). For the first word in a sentence I don't know if the word is not at the
beginning of the line. If that is what I am looking for I simply use control
right arrow. As soon as I get to a punctuation mark, I obviously know what is
next. Hth, Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian J Hubbard
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: Jaws and Reading Text, finding first words in line and sentence
Hi,
I can't believe I am asking this as it is so basic. But it seems as if I
have had issues with basic reading of text, especially in MS Word, since I
upgraded to 8.0 [I realize the current is 9.0]
I am an author and currently working on a manuscript, this is why reading
text is so crucial to me. I spent about an hour on the 'help' menu last night,
but got nowhere. The problem I am having in reading text is very elementary, I
cannot find the keystroke to go to the beggining of the line, nor at the
beginning of a sentence. While I use the up arrow on the numpad [8] to find
the previous line and the down arrow on the numpad [2] to go to the next line,
the curser lands on a random word and I have to fumble with my left and right
arrows to find the exact word that I want my curser on. The help menu said to
use 'home' [7]to land on first word of the line, and Alt, plus up arrow on the
keyboard to find the first word of the sentence, but when I do this nothing
happens. Actually, when I use Alt+up arrow, it brings me to the first word of
the next paragraph. I often have to do a word search to find the exact word,
which is cumbersome. Believe it or not, I am an advanced computer user, but
editing my writing is becoming really challenging. While I know essentially
all of the keystrokes for reading text, finding the first word in the line, as
well as the first word in a sentence I am on has been challenging. These are
crucial navigational keys for editing text in an efficient manner. Again, I
use Jaws 8.0 with Windows XP and MS Word. I really would appreciate a reply at
early convenience.
Thanks,
Brian
Brian J. Hubbard, LICSW
brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.brianjhubbard.com
www.EmpowermentTherapy.com
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