Good morning Jaws Users group. I had some issues with my other email address, David helped me figure out the issues. Thanks David! So I am going to use this Yahoo email for now on, on the Jaws users list. This is my main email For all my groups, this change will help keep me more organized in answering questions. Please let me know what you think about these short lessons.
The Control and ALT keys, your best friend, part two. This is a text tutorial, provided freely by The W-10 and Jaws group. Author: Jim Flusche Email Address: jim.flus...@yahoo.com The Windows 10 and Jaws Yahoo group, The Group home page is below: https://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/windows-10-and-jaws The subscribe Link for the Windows 10 and Jaws Yahoo group is below: windows-10-and-jaws-subscr...@yahoogroups.co.in *All these text Tutorials are the property of the Windows 10 and Jaws Yahoo group, anyone can freely distribute all these free text Tutorials to all interested Blind computer users all over the world. *All the members of the W-10 and Jaws group, may also freely share all my audio tutorials with everyone. *I only ask that they give the W-10 and Jaws group, the credit for all the audio and text tutorials that they may freely share with anyone else around the world. **This lesson is on, Using Word 2016 with Jaws 18. *After pressing Enter on the Word 2016 icon, you land on a Start screen page. *You will hear such items, as the following items as you use all four of the ArrowKeys on the new Start Screen in Word 2016, which is a grid. Single spaced (blank) Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Crisp and clean resume, designed by MOO Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Polished cover letter, designed by MOO Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Spec design (blank) Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. APA style report (6th edition) Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Event menu Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Personal letterhead Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Thank you cards Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Summer event flyer Button Pin status: unpinned. To activate press spacebar. Blank document Button To activate press spacebar. Welcome to Word Button Pin status: pinned. To activate press spacebar, and you will see many more items. **To open a blank document from the Start screen, press the Escape key. **Or you can just press Enter, on the Blank document Button. **On the Start screen, You can also Tab one time to all your recent documents, use the Up and Down arrow keys to highlight a document, press Enter to open that selected document. **Press the Applications key on a selected document, you have many obtions, such as, pin the document, remove the document from the list, and other options. *Tip, you can turn off this Start screen in the Word 2016 options page, under General options. To do this, press ALT+F, followed by the letter T. Jaws incorrectly lands on Display the second item below General options, press the UpArrow one time to highlight General options. Tab 13 times to, Show the Start screen when Word 2016 opens, this is a checkbox, if it is checked, the Start screen will show up when you open Word 2016. This is a cool new feature, to look at a lot of options for opening different documents formats. If you find an item you like, you can pin that item to a list here on the Start screen, of Word 2016. For example: 1. I highlighted, Single space blank button. 2. I pressed the Applications key. 3. I arrowed down to, Pin to list, press Enter. **So now when I open Word 2016, using the Start screen. I can just press Enter on, the Blank document Button, which is already highlighted, you may need to press down then up arrow to highlight it. Or I can Right arrow one time to, my new pinned item, Single space blank button, press Enter to open. *Tip, I highly recommend using the Jaws virtual ribbons, under the Jaws settings, it makes using the office ribbons a whole lot easier using the Jaws virtual ribbons. **Using the Word 2016 ribbons. **Press the ALT key, to open and close the virtual ribbons in Word 2016. **How to use the virtual ribbons in Word 2016. **Press the ALT key, you will land on the Home tab, press your Right arrow key, you will hear the following. Virtual Ribbons Home Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Insert Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Design Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Layout Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. References Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Mailings Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Review Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. View Tab To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. *Tip if you Right arrow past the View tab, you will land in the Tell me edit box, you will hear. Leaving menus Tell me what you want to do Edit. So if you Tab too far, press the Escape key to close Tell me. *Tip, on any of the upper ribbons, just press the Down arrow key, to go into the lower ribbon of the selected upper ribbon tab. *Tip, from any lower ribbon, just press the Escape key, to go back to the upper ribbon tab. **For example: **If you press the Down arrow key, when you are on the Home ribbon tab, and down arrow, you will hear the following items. Lower Ribbon Clipboard sub menu, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Font sub menu, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Paragraph sub menu, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Styles sub menu, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Editing sub menu, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. **To go into any of the sub menus, press Right arrow followed by the Down arrow to go through the items in the sub menu. **For example, press the Right arrow key on the Font sub menu, as you Down arrow, you will see the following items. Font edit combo, Calibri (Body) To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Font Size edit combo, 11, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Grow Font Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Shrink Font Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Change Case button, dropdown Has Popup, Press Space to activate, then use Up or Down Arrow. Clear Formatting Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Bold Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Italic Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Strikethrough Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Subscript Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Superscript Button, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. Text Effects and Typography button, dropdown grid Has Popup, Press Space to activate, then use the arrow keys. Font... button menu, To move through the controls on this ribbon, use Tab or Shift Tab, or use the Arrow keys. *Tip, When you are on one of the following items in the ribbons. 1. a drop down has pop-up. 2. Table drop down grid. 3. Split button has pop-up, Edit spin box. **Press the Spacebar, to open the drop down menu, or drop down grid, or a split button item, under any submenus in the lower ribbons. Use your arrow keys, and spacebar key, to make any changes and close the drop down pop-up or split button, or table grid. Press the Escape key, to close one of these items if you have not made a change. **remember, press ALT+F, to go to the file menu tab, or press Left arrow one time, from the Home tab upper ribbon. **Lets take a look, at what items are under the file tab in Word 2016. Info Tab, ALT+F, followed by "I", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. New Tab, ALT+F, followed by"N", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. Open Tab, ALT+F, followed by "O", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. File menu, Save, ALT+F, followed by "S", to move through items press up or down arrow. Save As Tab, ALT+F, followed by "A", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. Print Tab, ALT+F, followed by "P", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. Share Tab, ALT+F, followed by "H", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. Export Tab, ALT+F, followed by "E", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. File menu Close, ALT+F, followed by "C" To move through items press up or down arrow. Account Tab, ALT+F, followed by "D", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. Feedback Tab, ALT+F, followed by "K", To navigate among Backstage View tabs, use the Up or Down ARROW keys. to open the current one, press ENTER. File menu, Options, ALT+F, followed by "T", To move through items press up or down arrow. *Tip, when you are finished typing a new document, press F12, to save, type the name for the new document, press Enter to save. **Using the new Tell me search edit box, in Word 2016. **Press ALT+Q, to open the Tell me edit box. **for example, I typed the word change, and began pressing the down arrow key, this is what I heard. Tell me what you want to do Edit Type in text. Alt followed by Q. menu Next Change, To move through items press up or down arrow. Previous Change, g. Accept split button, To move to an item, use the RIGHT ARROW, then use UP and DOWN ARROWS to select one. menu Track Changes Ctrl+Shift+E, To move through items press up or down arrow. Reject split button, To move to an item, use the RIGHT ARROW, then use UP and DOWN ARROWS to select one. menu Get Help on "change" sub menu, To move through items press up or down arrow. h. Smart Lookup on "change". **Press the Escape key, to close the Tell me edit box. **Using Smart look-up in Word 2016. *Tip, for whatever reason, if using the Smart look-up with Jaws, This seems to cause problems. 1. Highlight and select any word, you wish to look up with Smart look-up. 2. Press the Applications key, Uparrow to, Smart look-up, press Enter, you will hear a sound. 3. Press the Tab key, one time to get into the search results, use your down arrow to read through the results. 4. Use normal select, copy, and paste commands, to copy results from the Smart look-up screen. 5. Press the ALT key, two times to close the Smart look-up screen, or ALT+Tab away and back again. *Tip, after using the Smart look-up in Word 2016, right now, this causes problems with Jaws when going back to the document. **For example. I selected the word "Jaws". I press the Applications key, uparrow to, smart look-up, I pressed Enter. I pressed the Tab key one time, to go to the Smart look-up results window. I pressed the Downarrow key, and found the following. JAWS (screen reader) - Wikipedia JAWS ("Job Access With Speech") is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a refreshable Braille display. *Tip, Jaws has some issues in Word 2016, after using the Smart look-up. As I was preparing this lesson, and ALT+Tabbing away and back to Word 2016, Jaws was getting stuck on one line. The Only thing that worked for me, was to shut down and restart Jaws 18, LOL. *Tip, I used the latest Jaws 17, I had the same issues after using the Smart look-up in Word 2016. So please let VFO, know about these issues, if you run across them like I have, in using Word 2016. **Lets look at some Control keystrokes in Word 2016. **You can use Insert+the arrow keys to go word by word, read current, previous, and next lines. **You can also use the Control+the arrow keys, to read word by word and so on. **For example. **Control+5, on the numpad, reads current line. **Control+Up arrow, reads the previous line. **Control+Down arrow, reads the next line. **Pressing up and down arrow keys, will also read the previous and next lines. **Pressing the Control+Right arrow key, reads the next word, just like Insert+Right arrow key. **Pressing Control+Home, will take you to the top of the document. **Pressing Control+End, will take you to the bottom of the document. **Pressing Control+Insert+F, Jaws find edit box. Type a word to look for, press Enter, to go to that word. Press Insert+F3, to find the next occurrence of that word. *Tip, if you press Insert+F1, in an open document in Word 2016, you will see information about that document. *For example: This is a document window. This is the text area of an open document. The document has 1 section(s). The cursor is in section 1. Margins for this section are set as follows: left 1 Inches right 1 Inches top 1 Inches bottom 1 Inches Document protection status is No protection. Spelling is checked as you type. Grammar is checked as you type. For Office 2007 and later: If F1 is pressed for Help, press Alt+Tab to move between the Help window and the document window. Close the Help window by pressing Alt+F4 to return focus to the document window. **You can see the following Keystrokes by pressing, Insert+W, in Word 2016. The following Ms Word 2016, short cut keys may be useful in using Jaws. Create a new document control + N Open an existing document control + O Save a document control + S Print a document control + P Undo the last edit command control + Z Repeat the last edit command control + Y Cut the selected text to the clipboard control + X Copy the selected text to the clipboard control + C Paste text from the clipboard into a document control + V Select the entire document control + A Search for specific words or phrases control + F Find and replace specific words or phrases control + H Go to a specific line paragraph or page control + G Center text control + E Left justify text control + L Right justify text control + R Justify text control + J Change the point size of the font control + shift + P Change the font face control + shift + F Delete the current word control + delete Delete the previous word control + backspace Bold text control + B Italicize text control + I Underline text control + U Insert a hyperlink control + K Check spelling or grammar F7 Name and save a document F12. **In any open document in Word 2016, if you press F6 one time. You will hear, the status bar tool bar, followed by the number of pages in your opened document. If you press the Right arrow key, you will hear the word count, followed by other items as you press the Right arrow key. Pressing F6 again, you will land in the ribbons tab. Pressing F6 again, you will land back in your document. **Pressing ALT+H, will land you on the upper Home ribbon tab of word. **Pressing ALT+N, will land you on the upper Insert ribbon tab of word. **Pressing ALT+W, will land you on the upper View ribbon tab in word. **Pressing ALT+R, will land you on the upper review ribbon tab of word. **Pressing ALT+M, will land you on the upper mailings ribbon tab of word. **Pressing ALT+S, will land you on the upper References ribbon tab in word. **Pressing ALT+G, will land you on the upper Design ribbon tab of word. **Pressing ALT+Y, will land you on the upper Layout ribbon tab in word, I think. **Pressing ALT+Q, will open Tell me, in word. **Pressing ALT+F, will land you on the Info tab in the File menu of word. **Pressing ALT+F, followed by the letter T, will land you in the Options list in word. **Pressing the F1 key, will open a help page in word. *Tip, Doing more testing in word 2016 with Jaws 18. Most of the issues I explained above, seem to occur after using the Smart look-up feature in Word 2016. This is the only lesson I am going to do, with using Word 2016 with Jaws. As always, all member feedback is welcome at all times by me, concerning these keyboard your best friend series. God bless, and happy learning! *My purpose for developing all of this free material for the Blind computer user is to help teach and assist a Blind person to use w-10 with a Screen reader like Jaws. *My hope is that the Blind computer user will grow in confidence, in their ability, to use, and to navigate the w-10 computer system, using just Jaws. *We also have group members, to can help teach about using NVDA, on a W-10 computer as well. *This is one of many tutorials, I hope to produce, for the Blind community, to help teach all of them, how to use a W-10 computer using Jaws. *My hope is , That over time, they would learn how to do, and complete, various computer tasks in W-10, all by themselves. *The W-10 and Jaws yahoo group is a freely provided ministry of The River Yahoo group. *I freely offer the W-10 and Jaws group, and all of its materials, as a free and voluntary work of love, to reach out and teach all the blind computer users all over the world, how to learn how to use a W-10 computer using Jaws. You can subscribe to The River group at: the-river-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Happy learning! God bless! Sincerely: Jim Flusche. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
