[gui-talk] Globally insert returns using Control H? How?

Rob Tabor rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 29 03:31:12 UTC 2010


Hi, Joel and list.
The carat is entered with shift+6 on the qwerty keyboard. Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Rob Tabor and White Cane Raúl Junior
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: <lras at sprynet.com>; "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk 
Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Globally insert returns using Control H? How?


> Lloyd,
>
> My idea won't work. I bring up control h, put the word chhapter in the 
> first
> box, then press insert 4 to get that paragraph marker. But you have to 
> press
> Enter to choose it, so you can't do it nine times then add Chapter.
>
> That insert 4 list of characters is handy, so far as it goes, but I sure
> wish I knew where to find carat on the keyboard. I could then type nine of
> them, then the word Chapter, hit alt A, and every chapter would suddenly
> have nine paragraphs before it.
>
> Oh, well.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
> To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List'"
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Globallty insert returns using Control H? How?
>
>
> Ctrl-H is the find and replace command in Word, I think.  Caret p is the
> symbol for a paragraph or carriage return.  The trick is to correctly
> identify the beginnings of the chapters so that the global replace will 
> work
> properly.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:29 PM
>> To: GUI-Talk
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Globallty insert returns using Control H? How?
>>
>> I'm using Word 2001 under XP1 Home SP3 and Jaws 11.
>>
>> I've got a document of 55 chapters, and need to precede each chapter 
>> title
>> with 10 Enters/Returns. The thought of spending all night doing this
>> manually is exhausting. But is there a way to use Control H, for 
>> instance,
>> to insert those returns, automatically and globally, as I could do using
>> Cntl H for many things no unlike this. Just replace x withy y, and his 
>> alt
>> a
>> to get the job done in a stroke.
>>
>> But I don't know how to do this in this situation. Any advice?
>> Joel?
>>
>
>
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