[Pibe-division] JAWS spelling magic

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From: pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Denise M.
Robinson
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:50 PM
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Subject: [Pibe-division] JAWS spelling magic


JAWS spelling magic
<http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/10/jaws-spelling-magic.html>  

Jaws offers up a great spell check option that WORD cannot.

Word offers you the applications key any time you misspell a word. Open word
and misspell any word, arrow into it and then hit your applications key.
Those of you who do not know what the applications key is, on a desktop
keyboard, it is the 3rd key to the right of the space bar. It is the key you
most likely have never used because you have no idea what it does. It is a
very powerful key. Any time you do not know how to spell a word, spell it
out the best you can, then hit that applications key and it will give you
the correct spelling...that is as long as you have not misspelled it so
badly WORD really has no idea what you want.

The next spell check in WORD is F7. I will provide a lesson on that later
on, as it is very involved.

But the power spell check for JAWS is ALT+SHIFT+L. Try it out. Open word,
misspell several words, then hit the command ALT+SHIFT+L and it will bring
up your misspelled words and tell you how many you have in the document. Hit
enter on the word and you will pop back exactly to the word, hit your
applications key and enter on the correct spelling. Repeat the command
ALT+SHIFT+L and continue until all words are correctly spelled.

Today, as I showed one of my students this power command, I could hear her
smile across the miles of our virtual screen. She lit up the room and once
again, she is shown how technology is making her life so much easier. 
 
       Denise 
 
Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. 
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor
Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training
509-674-1853     deniserob at gmail.com <mailto:deniserob at gmail.com> 
 
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