[gui-talk] Control Home in Word starting Say All in Jaws. A problem.

Joel Deutsch jdeutsch at dslextreme.com
Wed Mar 7 14:14:38 CST 2007


Hi,

I'm using Jaws 8, but this has been happening to me for long enough so that 
I forget when it started. Now, I'm a great fan of Say All, and use it often 
in order to sit back and listen to long sections of a text document or an 
online news article. but when I'm writing and editing in a Word document, 
the control home key command, which is just the old Word keystroke for going 
to the beginning of the previous paragraph or the paragraph you're in, Jaws 
seems to take it as a Say All command instructing it to begin speaking from 
the top of the paragraph instead of going by sentence, which is how I've got 
Say All set in Configuration Manager. But jaws shouldn't be doing anything 
like this. It should just allow me to focus on the first word of the 
paragraph, which is all the Word key combination is supposed to achieve.

And so if I want to begin reviewing or editing at that point, I have to do 
something like immediately press something relevant to the situation like 
control right arrow to start moving one word at a time from the start of the 
paragraph in order to keep this from happening. And if I'm not quick enough, 
Jaws just rushes ahead past where I wanted to be located, and I have to stop 
the headlong rush of the cursor and the speaking by hitting the Control key 
or whatever, then try again to get to the top of the paragraph without Jaws 
rushing ahead reading again.

I looked in the Text Processing menu in Configuration Manager and in the Say 
All menu, too, but could find nothing that seemed relevant to this issue. Am 
I missing something? I hate having to do this crazy little wrestling match 
with Jaws.

thanks. 



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