Re: setting to announce "select all"?

  • From: Judith Bron <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:37:12 -0400

Thanks Gary, I better learn to slow down and check what I'm doing. In my case it will be another version of multi tasking but I used to be able to walk and chew gum! Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxx> 

To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: setting to announce "select all"?



Judith,

The best cure is to slow down and be more careful.  Once you have selected
an entire document and performed an operation such as changing its format,
remember to remove the selection by pressing the Home key or some other
cursor key. If this proves too difficult, go into the Options dialog under 
the Tools menu in MS Word and Control+Tab over to the Edit page of the
dialog. Tab, if necessary, to a checkbox labeled Typing Replaces Selection 
and press Spacebar to uncheck it.  Press Enter to accept the change and
close the dialog. When this checkbox is unchecked, selected text in MS Word 
won't be replaced with whatever character you may accidentally type while
the selection is on.  The only undesirable side effect of this change is
that you won't be able to select a word or paragraph and replace it by
typing or pasting new text.

I had a client once upon a time who had to resort to the above solution
because she just couldn't remember to remove the selection before pressing a 
key.

Gary King
mailto:w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: setting to announce "select all"?
No Adrian, you understand. I save my work quite often as I go along and I 
save it before I realize that most of it is no longer there.  Is there a

one

pill cure for stupidity?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: setting to announce "select all"?


> I'm trying to understand what you're now saying. First you select all

with

> control-a, as you intend. Then you delete with control-d by mistake.

Then

> you save with control-s? This is not one, but two mistakes, if I
> understand you correctly. Maybe you could clarify.
>
> Oops, I've just realized your question is off-topic.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Control z sometimes works but when I press control s before I realize

what

> has happened it's useless. I would like to know other methods of
> retriebving documents, any advice would be appreciated. Judith
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:58 PM
> Subject: Re: setting to announce "select all"?
>
> Judith,
>
> If you accidentally delete all the text in a document like that, the

first

> thing to do is press control-z, the undo command. I imagine MS Word has
> additional related commands. I use WordPerfect, which allows me to

correct

> not only the mistake I just made, but also several mistakes preceding

it,

> each in turn. There are also Windows methods for restoring lost files.
> Once a seemingly cataclysmic mistake has been made, perhaps the first
> thing to do is sit back and take a deep breath. The material can almost
> always be salvaged after a moment's thought.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The problem is that while I'm typing a document evidently I press

control

> A and then, while I think I am pressing control S I must be pressing
> control D. Hours of work sent to oblivion. Outside of working slower > and 
> being more cognizant of what I am doing while concentrating on my

writing

> is something I must learn. However, if there was a way for jaws to
> announce that I just selected the entire document would sure help.

Thanks,

> Judith ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:50 AM
> Subject: Re: setting to announce "select all"?
>
> The sole purpose of control-a is to select the entire document. If the
> problem is that you're finding JAWS starts reading the selected text > but 
a

> paste-and-copy key sequence doesn't transfer the entire document to a

new

> location, my guess is that you're moving too quickly. When I select all
> with control-a, I wait a heartbeat or two before pressing the control-c
> copy command. It never fails, so long as I pause after control-a.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Christopher, Where do I find the "select all script"? Thanks!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Judith, I suppose you could modify the "SelectAll" script so that JAWS
> speaks the message when the key is pressed, but that's all I can think

of
> for now. May play around with that script to see if I can do it and > post 
> the code to the scripting list that I'm on, which, if you're not on
> already, can be subscribed through the Blind Programming site
> (http://www.blindprogramming.com). Hope that helps. On Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> 20:31:03 -0400, "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: Is there a
> keystroke that would announce when someone selects an entire document?
> Thanks, Judith
>
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