Or you could simply press insert plus numrow three (the keysttroke which
allows JFW to pass the next keystroke to the current application, then
press your insert key to toggle insert/overtype mode.
Jon C. Pierson
Yardbird,
I looked up the keystroke for switching to overstrike since I couldn't remember it and wanted to jog my memory and I may have at least a partial answer for you as to why the Insert key you used to use doesn't work with JAWS. I have some old newsletters produced primarily for sighted people that tell them how to do it and they say to use the insert key with numlock turned off. Since JAWS runs with numlock off, it makes sense to me that maybe this is why it doesn't work with JAWS. I never had enough sight to do it the way it's described in the newsletters which sounds like the way you did it before JAWS.
I use a different short cut key to load IE and JAWS says OVERSTRIKE and INSERT when I toggle back and forth with the Control-Alt-I key in Word 2000 with JAWS 6.2 and XP Home.
Margaret
Yardbird wrote: Is this a Jaws key combination? It doesn't sound like a Word hotkey. It conflicts, unfortunately, with a hotkey combo I use for launching Internet Explorer. Why doesn't the regular insert key I used to use prior to Jaws on the keyboard work when Jaws is running? It doesn't even speak and identify itself when I press Insert 1 and then press it (in the group of keys at the upper right of the alphanumeric keyboard).
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Howdershell" <marvinhowdershell@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:25 AM Subject: Re: Microsoft word inserting text
Fioravanti,
Control - alt- I will toggle the insert mode on and off. You are now, of course, in overtype mode .
Marvin
----- Original Message ----- From: <fioresq1@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:27 AM Subject: Microsoft word inserting text
> Good morning: I am using microsoft word and when I attempt to type a > word > between two words in to my already existing text it deletes the word > to the > right. I want to simply be able to insert text without this > happening. > Generally, Idon't use Word and use word perfect. But this > particular legal > document is already in word, so I am modifying it. Thnks in > advance. John > Fioravanti, Jr.
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