Hi Wayne, Looks like someone's not been reading the manual in its entirety, <laugh>. Just teasing. The best place to check out for such commands is Chapter 15, Command Summary. Here's a crude list of useful and not so popular keyboard shortcuts I can think of right now.
Commands that can be executed from anywhere in Keysoft: FUNCTION with N (ENTER with N) to check next appointment. FUNCTION with R (ENTER with BACKSPACE with R) for the Review Voice Settings. FUNCTION with K (ENTER with BACKSPACE with K) for the Keyboard Settings. READ with HELP (ENTER with BACKSPACE with H) for the User's Guide, although I think the QT command is popular, while the BT shortcut isn't since I see many people going into the Options Menu to select the Manual. FUNCTION with D (ENTER with D) for date announcement. FUNCTION with T (ENTER with T) for time announcement. REPEAT key (SPACE with R) to repeat prompt or message, the BT command not being quite familiar, but the QT is, since it's just one key. FUNCTION with L (ENTER with S) to repeat and spell prompt or message, which is a handy keystroke for VOICENote users if they want to check out the e-mail address in the headers or spell a suggested correction to a word questioned by the spell checker. FUNCTION with P (ENTER with H) to repeat prompt or message and hear all punctuations. FUNCTION with W (ENTER with W) for the Stopwatch (starting with version 5.0). FUNCTION with M (ENTER with M) for the Media Player (starting with version 5.0). FUNCTION with 4 (ENTER with BACKSPACE with W) to go to Keyword. FUNCTION with 5 (ENTER with BACKSPACE with S) to go to Keyplus, FUNCTION with 6 (ENTER with BACKSPACE with 6) to go to Keyplan. FUNCTION with 7 (ENTER with BACKSPACE with A) to go to Keylist. FUNCTION with 8 (ENTER with BACKSPACE with E) to go to Keymail. FUNCTION with 9 (ENTER with BACKSPACE with B) to go to Keybook. FUNCTION with 0 (ENTER with BACKSPACE with I) to go to Keyweb. ENTER with BACKSPACE with T (I know no QT equivalent) to use BrailleNote as terminal for synthesizer FUNCTION with S (SPACE with dots 2-3-5, then SPACE) to cycle through available tasks. Unfortunately, there's no keyboard shortcut to switch to the File Manager and Utilities Menu which are frequently used applications. Switch-on Keystrokes for BrailleNote: Hold down CTRL key (dot 2) while switching on, to start the BrailleNote with Braille display turned off. Hold down SHIFT key (dot 3) while switching on to start BrailleNote with speech on request. Hold down SHIFT with CTRL (dots #vc) while switching on to start BrailleNote with both speech and Braille. Not so popular thumb key commands: ADVANCE with BACK thumb keys together to move cursor to the start of the displayed line. NEXT with ADVANCE thumb keys together to cycle through the Text File Display (Reading Grade) options. PREVIOUS with ADVANCE thumb keys together to move the display forward a word. PREVIOUS with BACK thumb keys together to move display back a word. Other keyboard shortcuts and not so familiar commands that works from within documents or e-mails being composed are: READ with SPACE (SPACE with dots 4-5) to move cursor to the start of next line. FUNCTION with UP ARROW (SPACE with dots 1-2-6, then SPACE with dot 1) to move up a page. FUNCTION with DOWN ARROW (SPACE with dots 1-2-6, then SPACE with dot 4) to move down a page. FUNCTION with I (ENTER with I) for the Insert Menu. CTRL with 4 (ENTER with I then T) to insert the time. CTRL with 5 (ENTER with I, C), then C or R to insert whole calculation or result respectively. CTRL with 6 (ENTER with I, D), then T or P to insert today's date or printing date respectively. BACKSPACE with M (I still don't know the QT command if there is one) to place a Top-of-Block marker executed from outside the Block Commands Menu; note that for all block commands, except Move Block, you do not need to place a bottom-of-block marker, just position the cursor at the end of the block (this doesn't apply in Keyweb, however). Quick Mark commands in the Block Commands Menu (CTRL with B or SPACE with B) are: Block menu, READ with K [SPACE with dots 2-5] for marking the word where the cursor is. Block menu, READ with I [SPACE with dots 1-4] to mark sentence or line where cursor is. Block menu, READ with 8 [SPACE with dots 2-3-5-6] to mark paragraph or section where the cursor is. Template Menu Shortcuts: CTRL with A (ENTER with BACKSPACE with dots 2-3-4-6, starting with version 5.0, ENTER with BACKSPACE with M for earlier versions) to go to the Template Menu. CTRL with A, then I [BACKSPACE With I] to insert a field when creating a template. CTRL with A, then S [BACKSPACE with dots 3-4] to mark start of conditional suppression. CTRL with A, then E [BACKSPACE with dots 2-6] to mark end of conditional suppression. EXTENDED Character shortcuts (which would be useful for multilingual users, and should answer Josh Kenedy's questions if he's following this): FUNCTION with X (BACKSPACE with dots 3-5) to insert a unicode character by name or code. SHIFT with READ with character number (BACKSPACE with dots 3-5, type the character number, then ENTER). FUNCTION with C (just press 6- or 8-dot key assignment on the BT) for the Unicode macro. On a character in the Unicode Table, CTRL with D [SPACE with D], then A to assign, R to reassign, or U to unassign, the way a character is displayed in Braille. On a character in the Unicode Table, CTRL with K [SPACE with K], then A to assign, R to reassign, or U to unassign, to set or change a macro/keystroke for entering a character. BACKSPACE with H (no equivalent for QT) which is an undocumented command allowing a single 8-dot character entry, sparing the user from switching keyboard entry in the Keyboard Settings Menu. Shortcuts for items in the Format Menu are: CTRL with L (BACKSPACE with L) to enter Layout List for that document type, i.e., Braille for Braille document, Ink-Print for text document. CTRL with P (BACKSPACE with P) to enter Page Settings List. CTRL with Y (BACKSPACE with S) to set Style of Presentation. CTRL with E (ENTER with C) to center a line. CTRL with R (ENTER with R) to right-justify a line. CTRL with U (ENTER with U) for underlining. CTRL with T (ENTER with F) to select a font type, like B for bold, I for italics, S for superscript, or T for subscript, etc.. READ with CTRL with B (no BT shortcut, just SPACE with dots 2-3-4-6 then B) to enter the Braille Settings Menu from within text documents, or the same command (but on the BT, it's SPACE with dots 2-3-4-6, then I) to enter the Ink-Print Settings Menu from within Braille documents. READ with CTRL with L (ENTER with BACKSPACE with L) to enter the Braille Layout List if you're in a text document, or the Ink-Print Layout List if you're in a Braille document. READ with CTRL with N (ENTER with BACKSPACE with C) for Braille-only inclusion if you're in a text file, or Ink-Print-only inclusion if you're in a Braille document. READ with CTRL with X (ENTER with BACKSPACE with dots 3-4) to mark start of Braille-only (for text document) or ink-print-only (for Braille document) exclusion. READ with CTRL with Y (ENTER with BACKSPACE with dots 2-6) to mark end of Braille-only (for text document) or ink-print-only (for Braille document) exclusion. CTRL with O (ENTER with BACKSPACE with O) for Braille Translation options in text documents, or for Ink-Print Translation Options in Braille documents. CTRL with G (ENTER with G) to check or change the Braille grade to use when translating. Commands that work on fields like those in databases such as the Address List, e-mail headers, the Find and Search & Replace commands, Keyweb address prompt, file/folder name prompt, and practically anywhere where the Block Commands Menu cannot be entered: CTRL with C (BACKSPACE with K) to copy field entry to clipboard. CTRL with V (BACKSPACE with V) to paste first line in clipboard to a field or prompt. CTRL with BACKSPACE (SPACE with dots 3-5-6) to clear field or prompt; note that this is better than using CTRL with I (BACKSPACE with C) where you must position the cursor at the start of the field entry before executing it just to clear out the whole thing. Not so popular Keyweb commands: To place the cursor on a character within a link without activating it, press and hold down the PREVIOUS thumb key first, then press and release the touch cursor to route the cursor. READ with CTRL with H (ENTER with dots 2-3-6) to access history list while on web page. At the web address prompt, READ with 9 [SPACE with dots 5-6] to enter history list. While within Browser History, CTRL with S [SPACE with S] to sort the history list by domain or date; note that the records are presented alphabetically for day or domain. FUNCTION with ENTER [ENTER with dots 5-6] to move to next section of text. SHIFT with FUNCTION with ENTER [ENTER with dots 2-3] to move to previous section of text. Note that with the last two commands, the size of the section of text is controlled by the third item in the Display Settings under the Internet Options Menu (CTRL with 2 or ENTER with I), and can take up a value between 50 and 200. HTH and I hope I didn't forget to include anything important, Roselle >----- QUOTED MESSAGE ----- >Sent by: Wayne Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hi all. While exploring different key commands in key announce mode today, I >stumbled across this one and thought I'd let everyone know, in case you >don't know already. To check what the next appointment is, you can press, on >the qwerty keyboard anyway (perhaps Roselle or someone else knows the BT >command), Function with N. this apparently works from anywhere in the BN, >since I tried it from within a file and from the Main Menu. This appears to >be a quicker way than having to go to the Options menu and so forth. >Another quick keystroke that I found not long ago is Function with R, to >change the review voice on the fly. Again, instead of having to go to >Options, Review Voice, etc. Thanks to PDI for putting these little known >quickie keystrokes in the BN. Now my only question is if there's somewhere >where all of these Function with keystrokes are listed, whether it be in the >manual, index, etc? >Sincerely and humbly grateful for these shortcuts, >Wayne >www.wayneism.com
