Hi Adrian, In Word you can replace vertical tabs using the Find and Replace dialog box. After using CTRL with h to launch the dialog box use ^11 in the Find What edit control. The caret is shift with 6. If you want to replace the vertical tab with a paragraph mark the use ^13 in the Replace With field. Using ^32 in the Replace With field will replace the vertical tab with a space.
Take care. Brian Lee brianl...@charter.net -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 4:31 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word text moving on its own The times I most often encounter this problem are when I've copied text from other sources into a document. Word inserts code that I can't always isolate and identify. For example, I may have what looks like a two-return break, but when I delete what I assume is one of the return characters, it remains a two-line break. Sometimes I figure out that the culprit is the character called a vertical tab. I wish I could search for that character and replace it, but I haven't worked out how to, despite having done some online research. In any event, once an errant code enters a document, it can cause JAWS to behave unpredictably. I'm in the habit now of checking each time I start inserting text into the middle of a document. Sometimes I refresh the screen with JAWS key+escape. I'm not sure if that solves the problem, but I do think the action causes JAWS to pause and take a breather. JAWS does have a tendency to get hyperactive. JAWS 17, Win7, no braille display. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of The Iowa Gal Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 6:09 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word text moving on its own Hi there, Just a few days ago I had this happen as I was writing a short document in Note Pad. I'm running Jaws 16.0.4468 on a Win 7 PC, no braille display. I don't recall if I tried this, but perhaps unloading and reloading Jaws might help? Thanks, Norma -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kimber Gardner Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 4:58 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word text moving on its own Wayne, I'm afraid this is not very helpful, but I know exactly what you are talking about because it has happened to me too and not just in Word. I've had the same thing happen in Outlook. I'll be typing along then when I go back to proof what I've written, I sometimes find portions of my text in a completely different paragraph or line from where I intended. I haven't been able to figure out any pattern regarding when this occurs making it sort of random which is why I have never mentioned it on the list. I had a half-baked theory that I was inadvertently hitting some key on my Braille display that was causing the cursor to jump, but I just don't know. Are you using a Braille display when this text jumping happens to you? If anyone else has seen this behavior, I'd like to hear about your experience. Maybe we can figure out what's going on and report it to FS or whatever the heck they're calling themselves these days. <grin> Kimberly Sent from Kimber's iPad > On Jul 20, 2016, at 4:54 PM, wayne smith > <waynesoundsm...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I need some of you big brains! I have an MS Word 2007 doc that is > about 250 pages long. At some points when I write the text sometimes > it appears in the middle of a different paragraph from the one I am > working on. This happens often but it seems to be inconsistent. I am > using JAWS 15. Any thoughts would be welcome. > > > > Wayne > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
