It's entirely possible that the Table of Contents was entered into the PDF
as text input and the main body of the manual was inserted as a photocopied
image -- in which case you'll need to pass the file through some Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) software such as FineReader, ReadIris or the
Seems I'm getting dual copies of every e-mail sent to the "Blind Computing"
list; I'm sending this message to the list so I can determine if I
accidentally subscribed two different personal e-mail addresses or if the
list is sending off two copies.
Holland's Boy, Bill
- “Never allow
Find the JFW.INI file for the version of JAWS you are using, this is most
easily done as follows:
1) Open the "START" menu
2) Arrow to and select the "PROGRAMS" menu item.
3) Arrow to the JAWS menu item being sure to find the version you are using
(if you have multiple versions installed) and
I have to believe that there is probably a much more cost-effective solution
for getting JAWS and Dragon to "play nice" with each other.
I haven't personally tried this, but I understand that if you deploy a
secondary audio device (i.e., Turtle Beach USB Sound Dongal) that you can
assign JAWS to "
Um, no offense, but how about being nice and NOT violating the rules of this
list?
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:
http://www.jaws-users
Oops, sent out my "support for Dave" message before I read John's recant. I
likewise apologize to John, David and the entire list.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
Visit the JAW
Could anybody advise me as to how accessible Visual Studio and/or the .NET
SDE are for a totally blind person?
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
- Original Message -
From: "h
In order for your laptop to connect wirelessly to your modem you'll need a
wireless interface on your modem or a wireless router. As far as the other
question, you'll be able to connect to the internet via wireless connections
provided the connections are not password protected.
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What Parham Doustdar writes is true, but don't forget that she will have to
get in touch with her service provider to get some of that information
first.
What information is that? The account name and initial password.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.ne
Isn't that in the "Page Setup ..." multi-page dialog boxes on the "Margins"
tab? You get there by opening the "FILE" menu. If that isn't it, will you
please let me (and the list) know?
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the
Sorry to say I can't seem to find a specific key stroke sequence to give you
this information. I went into the JAWS keyboard manager and selected the
Microsoft Word JKM listing and couldn't find anything of that nature.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.n
Q: What does "in-line/cord volume control" mean?
A: This means there is a small volume adjustment device installed on the
wire that leads from the input jack pin to the earphones themselves that
will allow you to adjust the volume right from the earphones rather than
making adjustments from the s
And on a more general point, even when you get those audio "captia" to be
heard you can't necessarily understand them!
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
Visit the JAWS Users List
Hi,
Book Split is OK for what I'd like to do, but I'd prefer to be able to cut
out a segment of an MP3 file at varying time slots in the recording. For
example, Book Split seems to have preset time slots whereas I'd like to be
able to take a segment of a recording from, say, 38 seconds into the
r
Yes, I do have Audacity installed on my PC, but I wasn't sure how accessible
it is via JAWS. I'll have to give it a more committed try!
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
Visit th
OK, I know I'll get laughed here, but here goes; I have a 733 MHz PC with
Windows 2000 (with all updates) serving as my OS. I have 512 MB RAM and two
hard drives -- the second drive serves as my "work space." What this means
is that I try to leave everything system related on the system drive (C:
but it's worked for me in the past.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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From: "Bill Gallik"
To:
Sent: 17 February, 2009 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Book Split or
What is NCH's Switch?
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:
http://www.jaws-users.com
Visit the Blind Computing home page at:
http://www.blind-
John,
I used to use PeaPod quite effectively, but that was almost five years ago
now when I lived in Wheaton, IL. It was quite a complex web site and
instructing anybody to use it even then would be quite challenging via
e-mail. But I will start by suggesting that you become very familiar with
e
I'm sure this subject has been covered in earlier threads on this list, but
I'm at a point where I may need to finally buy a new PC and the vendor
prefers to install AVG as the anti-virus of choice. Is AVG accessible for
JAWS users?
Thanks!
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: b
Thanks for the quick reply; guess I'll tell my vendor to start building my
new PC.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:
http://www.jaws-users
You need to open the Tools/Options multi-tab dialog, go to the Security Tab
and uncheck the item that says something about attachments. This is a VERY
brain-dead algorithm; as far as I can figure, if an attachment is anything
at all but ASCII text ti prevents you from getting to it.
By the way, t
Go to
www.wave.com
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into
it.
- Original Message -
From: "Rosemarie Chavarria"
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 1:41 PM
Subject: Re:
To:
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] free sounds download sitesthatarejaws
accessible
Hi Bill,
The website you're referring is actually www.wav.com . Take care.
Mike
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From: "Bill Gallik"
To:
Sent: Monday, Marc
I was going to suggest Talking Checkbook, but when I went to the Reading
Made Easy web site I couldn't find any reference to Talking Checkbook.
One thing I do not like about Talking Checkbook is that you have to order
special (rather expensive) blank checks.
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Holland's Perso
I bought my checks from a printer out of Illinois, not the software vendor.
The point is, you need to buy quick Books style checks. If you do a Google
search for Quick Book checks I believe the URL will be listed.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
A h
I'm going to presume that you're using Internet Explorer as your web
browser; here's the procedure I'd use to do what you ask:
1) Launch Internet Explorer
2) Open the "TOOLS" menu and select "Internet OPTIONS"
3) You'll find yourself in a multi-tab dialog, move to the "PROGRAMS" tab.
4) Now
I wonder if the e-mail client in question is not Microsoft Outlook, which is
different from Outlook Express?
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into
it.
Visit the JAWS Users List
Outlook Express does not have a "built in" junk folder as does MS Outlook,
but one can certainly be created by a user who wishes to have one. The only
thing is, that user will have to create a "Mail Rule" identifying the
criterion that would send incoming email messages into that junk folder.
This
Another alternative is to buy a USB "plug in sound card." I have a Turtle
Beech USB sound device and I can instruct JAWS to issue through that device
rather than the native sound card. Then I can listen to on-line radio etc.
and have my JAWS speech channeled through the Turtle Beech sound card
sea
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to remove a user from my desk top and many of the files under
"Local Settings" for this user have names that prevent a standard
folder/file deletion from executing. The typical issue is that these are
Internet files that begin with the semi-colon (;) so that (I believe) the
s
'NITCH' COLLOMB
Here's the web page to go to for a description and download of the program.
I find it very useful. Hope this is useful to you.
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
Brian
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From: "Bill Gallik"
To: "Blind Computing"
Freedom Scientific does indeed have a version of JAWS 10 that is
specifically for 64-bit processing. If you're not using Vista though, you
needn't worry about which address format (32 or 64 bit) to use; you'll be
using 32-bit processing.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: bill
You CANNOT use JAWS 10 on Millennium. I have Windows 2000 and the Freedom
Scientific installation program tells me I need XP or Vista to install JAWS
10.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of every
I think the subject line sums up pretty well! (I hope)
But here's the skinny on this, I'm composing a letter in response to several
questions. One of the questions has five answers and I would like to list
these 5 items with each item bulleted (or dashed) to give a visual layout
that clearly ties
Hi Kathy,
I bought a Turtle Beech USB "Sound Card" from buy.com about a year ago; it
only cost about $25.00. One problem I've encountered with this "Sound Card"
is that voice inflections in JAWS are not transmitted through the device.
But that's a small price to pay for the luxury of having two s
Another way to see the size of a file is to change the view to "Details" and
the file size should appear as one of the properties of the file.
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they
IS AVG accessible via JAWS? Are there other anti-virus programs that are
effective and accessible?
Frankly, I'm really tired of Norton, it's such a resource hog!
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
Thanks to all of you that offered their insights to my question regarding
accessibility for AVG. I ESPECIALLY APPRECIATE that each of you offered
advice beyond strictly AVG per se and included other anti-virus utilities.
I should have titled the thread "Anti-Virus Accessibility" rather than "AVG
A
I've had a situation on my desk top for almost two years now and I've
decided to ask if anybody on this list has a more appropriate solution than
I've been using. Here's the problem; Outlook Express (and Internet
Explorer) loses connection to the outside world. I find that if I go to the
"RUN" it
I believe you could do this by modifying the page orientation to landscape
and then setting the margins accordingly. For example, suppose you are
using a standard letter size (8.5" × 11") sheet of paper:
1) Open the "FILE" menu and select the "PAGE SETUP" item.
2) In the "MARGINS" tab minimall
Let's remember to not confuse the special scanning applications developed by
Kurzweil and Freedom Scientific (OpenBook) with the utilities that accompany
most scanner peripherals these days. Kurzweil and OpenBook are designed to
work specifically with blind users and are integrated with the on-boa
Reading Edge was a dedicated Text-To-Speech reading system that was
essentially a PC configured with a scanning component, an OCR component and
a TTS component. By "dedicated" I mean there was nothing you could do with
this system other than scan documentation. The advantage to such a system
is t
Odds are you can send an email message to one of the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-or-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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- Quoted from the Wednesday, April 9, 2008 copy of "NEWZ 'N' VIEWZ"
two or so problems.
I've uninstalled SpybotSD from my PC this morning because it seems to be
relatively useless software using up processing bandwidth.
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- Quoted from the Wednesday, April 9, 2008 copy of &qu
I wonder if you haven't somehow gotten your OCR software into some sort of
"column mode" or something akin to that. I don't know, I'm just throwing
out a remote possibility.
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- "If
lieve they would also
have some useful "in the home" instructional tools.
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- "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
- Albert Schweitzer
Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:
http://www.
I imagine that whatever liquid is used in these miniature pipelines, it will
need to be purified. When you think about how common household plumbing
gets rank with "growth" that would surely fudge up such a miniscule system
very quickly.
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Bill Gallik
E-Ma
I know this has been a disjointed thread on this list before, but which is
preferred; AVG or Avast? I am totally blind with no usable vision at all.
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-***-
- "What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."
-
John,
I appreciate your candid evaluation of the two anti-virus applications.
What you stated is what I expected, that it's a matter of taste as to which
anti-virus application is preferable.
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Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- "I like persons better than
Hi,
I'm trying to take the email "A Pet's Ten Commandments" and turn it into a
MS-Word 2000 document. I had hoped I could have "commandment" automatically
numbered "1), 2), 3)" but I'm having some difficulty getting this
accomplished. Can anybo
Sounds element of the Control Panel. This value must be
the exact same as what is listed in that dialog, it identifies the hardware
itself.
HTH
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Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- "Art is science made clear."
- Jean Cocteau
- "You don't get anything c
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Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- "Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully
like other people."
- James Russell Lowell
*** AND NOW BELIEVE IT OR NOT (From "NEWZ 'N' VIEWZ, Oct. 8, 2008):
ROLLING THE DICE
Modern
How does one go about printing a sheet of business cards in MS-Word? I have
Avery 27881 business card forms -- two columns × five rows of tear out cards
per sheet.
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Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- "Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dread
Can anybody tell me if the Lawson ERP packages are accessible via JAWS?
There's a job here in the Twin Ports at St. Mary's/Duluth Clinic and I would
like to apply. But I'd like to be sure it is something I could work with.
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE
be nothing
at all wrong with your Adobe Reader and you won't be able to save the
document as a text document because it is essentially one big picture of a
document that was photocopied and loaded into PDF.
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Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
God made man before woman so as t
has Kurzweil he/she could always
run the attachment through the KESI Virtual Printer themselves to get a text
rendering of the letter. I don't know if Open Book has a similar feature; a
capability to have the Open Book Optical Character Recognition software
serve as a "printer" to conver
r bed. By virtue of the KESI Virtual Printer provided in
Kurzweil 1000 I can pass the PDF directly into Kurzweil by specifying to
print that PDF with the KESI Virtual Printer (rather than my HP PSC). It
saves paper, time and effort.
Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
God mad
as I'd suggested -- it's worked for me before but
this time it's not working well at all.
Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for
her first question.
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- "Democracy means that any
Kurzweil 1000 works with numerous scanners. They have a list of compatible
(tested) scanners on their web site:
http://www.kurzweiledu.com
Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for
her first
here I sit with
egg on my face and the text "F O O L" printed boldly on my forehead! Think
I'll take a picture, load it into a PDF and send it on to the list! Humph!
Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an a
ter was at
least better in this regard, at least it could read disjoint words from the
"print out."
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God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for
her first question.
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where this file can only be in play for a
specific application. But I do know that the offending file is one of the
HP software components.
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Bill Gallik
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God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for
her first question.
I don't understand why I keep getting messages on this list that get this
"*** SPAM **" crap in the subject line.
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God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for
her first question.
You know Gang, it is not that difficult to edit the subject line. For
crying out loud!!!
Bill Gallik
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God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for
her first question.
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- "Under democracy one party always de
The Criss Cross Technology web site used to offer a Power Point Tutorial
on tape. I visited the site:
http://www.crisscrosstech.net
but could not find anything about Power Point.
Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
God made man before woman so as to give him time
nclude the formula from the included
cell?
For example, if A1=3 and B1=4 and C1=(A1 * B1) and D1=(C1 * 3)does D1
actually wind up being D1=(A1 * B1) * 3)?
If this is the case what are the limits of this repetitious formula parsing?
Thanks!
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I have Office Pro 2000 on my PC and would like to upgrade to 2003. Can
anybody advise me as to the most cost-effective (spell that "c h e a p") way
to do this? Is there a Microsoft web page update available?
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- Billionaire Warr
Mohammed,
I applaud you for your integrity and forthrightness disclosing your personal
interest in one of the commercial screen readers. The fact that you offered
this information makes your evaluation all the more credible! Thank you!
Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- &q
ssage for one list, then using
the + (copy all) and + commands to copy the message
from one email composition for one list into a second email composition for
the second list.
Actually, I'm using the first method to send this message to both the Blind
Computing and JAWS Users list.
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ved files from her specific folder. These files are
located in the local settings and eventually down where I suspect the
temporary internet files are kept. Can anybody offer any suggestions as how
most conveniently to remove these files so I can continue to save her user
files after each time she
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Bill Gallik
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- "Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
- H. L. Mencken
- "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a
dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
- Charles M. Schulz
- And
ecause the
functional part of the program isn't there.
Just a guess.
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- "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a
dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
- Charles M. Sch
ng is just so darn
frustrating! I'm all for offering John a virtual pat on the back and
saying, "We've all been there, Pal."
Glad you got it resolved John!
Bill Gallik
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- "It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in h
quot; as a misspelled word
and "malaria" was one of the offered substitutions. Might suggest that we
henceforth refer to this nasty stuff as "malwaria?" ;-)
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- "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when t
deleted I'd have never known about the problem but I luckily had the feature
configured to only mark those messages as SPAM (in the subject line).
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- "In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!'
nce because I believe I'm doing a service to
the rest of the list by bringing this issue up. I don't mean to flame
anybody at all, but please can't we all realize that as folks that must
listen to these messages rather than quickly glance at them that a relevant
subject line mig
How does one go about having negative values appear in red in an Excel work
sheet? I'm using Office 2000.
Thanks!
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- "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that
we must put up with a good deal
1 GB RAM wouldn't be overkill on my system neither.
HTH
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- "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that
we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."
- Robert Jackson
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reight than can the Wisconsin
River -- simply because there is more volume.
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- "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that
we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."
- Robert Jackson
Visit the J
If all you want is to add up the values in A2-A6 the formula is:
=SUM(A2:A6)
If you want a count of cells that have a value in them I don't have a clue.
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- "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear
As a general rule, you can always use the "Run JAWS Manager" (+) and select the Keyboard Manager.
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- Quoted from the Tuesday, March 25, 2008 copy of "NEWZ 'N' VIEWZ" by
Kendall Berg
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