RE: text selection with f8
- From: "Lisle, Ted \(CHFS DMS\)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:36:57 -0400
If you're going for a whole paragraph, there's an even easier way; just
triple click and copy.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Brian and Denise Albriton
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:28 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: text selection with f8
Once copied to the clip board it turns off as well.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Philip Hall wrote:
> just press escape.
>
> phil
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Selfridge"
<cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:08 PM
> Subject: RE: text selection with f8
>
>
>> Say folks,
>> When you do the F8 selection how do you turn off the "select mode"?
>> Cy, the Ancient Okie...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
>> Of Yardbird
>> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:20 PM
>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: text selection with f8
>>
>> Gary,
>>
>> I just tried it out on a Word document. Perfect! I have to assume
that
>> when
>> I tried F8 a few times before this, I either didn't hear or didn't
>> understand when Jaws said the amount of text that was being
selected. Had
>> I
>> read up on it in the Help files (or read your own instruction), I
would
>> have
>> understood what I was hearing. But alas, I just got confused and
didn't
>> learn to use the function properly.
>>
>> Many thanks. This will be a real help in my editing of Word
documents. And
>> I
>> won't even have to go to law school or take a paralegal training
course!
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: text selection with f8
>>
>>
>> Yardbird,
>>
>> You can use F8 to select a word, sentence or a paragraph. After
entering
>> Extended Selection mode with F8, just press F8 once, twice or three
times,
>> respectively.
>>
>> Gary King
>> w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird"
<yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: text selection with f8
>>
>>
>> > Dean,
>> >
>> > On a different context for this, here's something I've never
figured
>> > out.
>> > In
>> > Word, that is. I think I remember that you could once select a
sentence
>> > at
>> > a
>> > time in Word. Or was that a keyboard procedure in WordPerfect
under DOS,
>> > years ay before I used a screen reader? I confess I can't
remember. But
>> > I
>> > would dearly love to once more select just a sentence if I choose
to, in
>> > one
>> > or two keystrokes. But all I've ever been able to manage with that
F8
>> > trick
>> > is to turn it on, then use the only Windows text navigation
commands I
>> > know,
>> > such as a word at a time, a line at a time, or pressing the down
arrow
>> > to
>> > select more lines below. But no one-command way to press F8 and
then
>> > have
>> > it
>> > select only a sentence. Am I out of luck?
>> > Thanks.
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Martineau"
>> > <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:31 PM
>> > Subject: Re: text selection with f8
>> >
>> >
>> > I can't replicate this problem. In Word, F8 isn't supposd in
itself to
>> > select text. F8 turns on Extend Select mode, which enabled
various easy
>> > ways to select text. In Internet Explorer, F8 selects the element
under
>> > the
>> > cursor. Hence, if you have table announcement on, if you put the
cursor
>> > on
>> > the line that says "table with x columns and y rows," then hit F8,
the
>> > entire table is selected, and you can copy its contents. I don't
notice
>> > any
>> > difference between functioning in JAWS 7 and 8.
>> >
>> > Dean
>> >
>> > At 12:56 PM 4/15/2007, you wrote:
>> >
>> > Brian:
>> >
>> > This is in response to a two-month old message; but I just dug it
up
>> > while
>> > clearing out my inbox. Recently, I've noticed the same
phenomenon
>> > after
>> > hupgrading to JFW 8, and I have a solution:
>> >
>> > When you are in the part of a Word document that you wish to cut
or
>> > copy,
>> > don't press F8. Instead, go to the beginning of your block of
text;
>> > then
>> > press and hold the SHFT key; then use arrow keys to go up or
down,
>> > highlighting each line as you go while still holding down SHFT.
When
>> > you've
>> > reached the end of your block, let up on SHFT, and then go through
the
>> > usual
>> > procedure (CTRL+C to copy or CTRL+V to paste).
>> >
>> > I'm not sure why it works differently in version 8 of JAWS vs. 7,
but
>> > it
>> > does work.
>> >
>> > -Kane
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian and Denise Albriton"
>> > <autoharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:04 AM
>> > Subject: text selection with f8
>> >
>> >
>> > > I've noticed using jaws eight that f8 does not select text. It
speaks
>> > the
>> > > text of the element as it did before but when one tries to copy
it
>> > > somewhere else there's no text to copy. This still works in jaws
7.
>> > Has
>> > > anyone else noticed something like this.
>> > > Brian
>> > >
>> > >
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