Re: jaws find not finding anything

  • From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:41:38 -0400

Troy, Try using plain old control F, sometimes jaws, in earlier versions,
just doesn't work like it's supposed to.  If you try this continually and it
doesn't work either, reboot the machine, chances are pretty good that your
find function will work fine once the computer is rebooted.  Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Sullivan" <tsullivan6058@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject: jaws find not finding anything


> Hi all. On our computers at work, the jaws find does not work like
> it's suppose to. What happens is when we are searching for a
> particular item rather it's within a notepad, a program, etc. A lot of
> the time jaws will say find result searchstring not found, even when
> we know darn well what we are looking for is actually in the document.
> We were wondering what is causing this issue, and is there a fix? On
> my work pc I have jaws 6.0 and my co-worker that is having the same
> issue is running jaws5.0. These are networked machines running windows
> 2000. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> Troy
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