Re: text selection with f8
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:34:21 -0700
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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