Re: jaws topic?
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:46:25 -0700
Robert,
While I was surprised, after reading your reply below, to find that Control
H works not only in Word, the only place I've ever used it, but in Notepad
as well (and I assume it will work in WordPad, also, then), I tried using it
from the top of a list of files within a folder, and wasn't surprised at all
to find that it's not operative there. In other words, it's not some sort
of global Windows function that simply finds and replaces anything,
anywhere, in any context. Just something for dealing with text within a
text file.
I remember back when I used DOS type computers that you could perform
operations like this on the filenames within a directory by using a command
line command, whose typical syntax I've forgotten by now. And I know there
are a lot of people on a list like this who have great affection for the Run
command in the Windows Start menu, and know how to perform all sorts of
operations from there. Maybe one of them can recommend something that'll
work in that way.
Otherwise, sorry. I'm pretty sure Control H, for all its ubiquity as
something you can use on text *within* a file, isn't a function that can be
used *outside* of files, on lists of filenames within a folder.
Sorry. That's the best I can do on this. Good luck.
n coopetaiton bitiquitty he,momm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: jaws topic?
Yardbird,
The control H seems to work inside most any file I have tried it, namely
note pad, and word pad. Where I would like it to work is on a list. I have
a folder in "my documents" which contains nearly 100 files the title of each
begins with the same word. It is the second word that distinguishes them
from each other. I had hoped that while on the list I could use that
command to eliminate the first word and replace it with nothing so that the
second word would be the identifying one. Hope this hasn't been too
confusing.
Bob S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: jaws topic?
> Which application are you working in when you use this command? The only
> context I know for this command is MS Word. And I've used Word for a long
> time, before I needed Jaws, and that command has always been part of Word,
> allied with the Control F find function.
> .
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:17 PM
> Subject: jaws topic?
>
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> Is control H, the find and replace command a jaws function? If not I'll
> take my question to another list.
>
> Bob S.
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