Maureen,
it's time for you to call for the old standby, sighted assistant,
to tell
you what's on the screen when you try to select a word or words in
Ms Word.
Perhaps the mouse is coming a cropper somewhere? Perhaps JAWS is
misrepresenting things or getting in the way? (there may be other
things
going on, whose symptoms have not manifested themselves to you
yet. In the
meantime, let us know if the problem is mysteriously solved!)
(You could, for experiment, unload JAWS, select a few words - say
four or
five shift-ctrl-right-arrow presses - then cut to clipboard, hit
enter a few
times, paste, then reload JAWS; see if JAWS reads anything pasted.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:41 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
Flor, I had checked this option and checkbox is checked. However, I
unchecked it and rechecked it again but no joy - a bit of a
mistery, don't
you think?
----- Original Message -----
From: Flor Lynch
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:34 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
maureen,
In Microsoft Word, when you get to Tools Option, ctrl+tab to the
Edit tab
control. Now, tab into this diallogue and look at the various
options.
About ten tab presses in, there's "automatically select entire word"
(checkbox checked), or should be checked. When I unchecked it,
it did not
stop my ability to select words, however.
Also, note: you can access the "What's this?" Help for each
option, by
activating shift+F1, to learn more about what it does. (This
particular
doesn't work in later office versions.) When you have read this
help and
press escape, you're returned to the OK button; so you need to
tab or
back-tab to where you were if you want to pursue those tabs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:43 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
Flor, I did nothing out of the ordinary that I know. I did put a
favorites
shortcut on desktop. All features you asked about seem o.k.
although it
is
difficult to know with the underline and emboldent features, not
being
able
to highlight the word. If I put on the underline or emboldent at
beginning
of word and arrow down to end of that word it works alright.
Otherwise, F8
and ctrl and down arrow are both working.
Sleep on it, you might get inspiration during the night! Come on
all you
teckys, give Flor a dig out on this one!
Maureen.
----- Original Message -----
From: Flor Lynch
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
Right. So there's nothing 'fatally wrong'. Did you re-assign
any keys
recently? use any fomplex Excel functionalities? Can you
press ctrl+e
and
get Centred text; ctrl+l and get left Aligned, Ctrl+b for Bold,
ctrl+u
for
Underlined, etc.? And if (In Microsoft word, of course here)
you press
ctrlk-down-arrow, does JAWS read by paragraph. Does something
happen
(for
example) if you press the control plus shift keys a few times in
successsion? You see there are still a number of
possibilities... so to
narrow it all down you will have to *keep* your own hat on!, if
you want
to
solve this problem! (By default, the 'keyboard switching' key is
alt-shift
(or at least it is on my keyboard. You might have changed
that to
control-shift accidentally perhaps.) Did you? Is mouse
selection of a
word
working properly? Do you know that the F8 key is also a
selection key,
and
does that work with ctrl, and ctrl and shift?
You could look in Tools Options - alt+t o. In the General Tab
control,
be
sure that both checkboxes for WordPerfect users are unchecked.
Next
there's
the Edit tab to look into, though nothing there in particular
springs
out
at
me from your description of the problem so far. I should add
that I'm
using
office 2002, next up from 2000. Perhaps somebody else has the
Quicksilver?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
Hi Flor, yes, the control key works when selecting a word in both
notepad
and wordpad.
Maureen.
----- Original Message -----
From: Flor Lynch
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
Outside of Microsoft Office? Outside of Microsoft word?
Does your
ctrl
key
work when selecting, copying/cutting/pasting text in, say,
Notepad, or
WordPad?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
Flor, no joy on that front, you will have to put your
thinking hat on
again!
Maureen.
----- Original Message -----
From: Flor Lynch
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:34 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob
have you rebooted your computer since this problem
manifested? If
not,
reboot ASAP and your ctrl key may well start to work as
intended.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [vicsireland] Word selection prob
Hello Vicsonians, I am using XP Pro with Office 2000 and
find that
when
I
go
to select a word JAWS just says "selected but does not say
the word
and
on
copying word or words, as the case may be, JAWS then tells me
"nothing
selected". Selection line by line or letter by letter
seems fine.
Can
anybody help?
Maureen."
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