I too, when using control shift g, get asked if I want to save the changes. I didn’t know about this command.

Alison

Al,

I’m not Mike, needless to say, but your post made me curious. I confirmed that with Word 2016, I have the same experience using shift-control-g. that is, when performing no other operation on a document, after using that command I need to save changes in order to close the document.

My only thought is that the same thing happens when the only operation I perform on a Word document is to copy some text. I haven’t changed it at all, and yet here to,, I must save changes in order to close the document.

In either case, whatever change the program perceives has occurred, I think you can be confident it isn’t one that affects the text or format in any way.

Hi Mike,

Thank you very much for those GREAT key strokes.  For years I’ve been using the insert and the down arrow keys and I like this new system.    

I just tried it on an existing Word document and it worked with lots of info, but when I tried to exit my document, JAWS asked me if I wanted to save changes.  Other than opening the existing document and using Control, Shift and the letter G, I did not change my original document.  Are the Control, Shift and the letter G adding something to my document?  I experimented with the same document and used Insert and the down arrow keys and JAWS did not tell me if I wanted to save the document.  It just exited my document.  Am I doing something wrong when I open up my document and using your commands?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Oh, by the way, I am using JAWS 15, Windows 7 and Word 2010.

Al

Adrian,

Thanks for that clarification. Mike is certainly the master at providing
detailed instructions at bending Microsoft Office to our wills with JAWS.

Alan

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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Adrian
Spratt
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 1:55 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

Alan,

FYI, yes JAWS key+pagedown/3 still usually works with Word 2016. However,
sometimes it fails, in which case Mike B's instructions explain how to
return the status line to showing these items, or not, as you choose.

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Alan Lemly
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:01 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

Alison,

I'm running Word 2010 on a Windows 7 computer and I use JAWS key plus
PageDown key which reads the status line which reports Page number, line
number, and word count. I don't know if this works in newer versions of
Office but it works well on my system.

Alan Lemly

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of CJ &AA MAY
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 1:49 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

Until recently, pressing Jaws key 3 has told me the number of words in my MS
Word document. It now tells me the number of characters and which line I am
on but I am having to press function key 6 in order to get a word count. Is
there a way I can amend this?
Alison
 

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of John Covici
Sent: 14 June 2020 02:34
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page

I found a keystroke jaws+alt+s where I can change the scheme to read the
colors -- I don't know why it did not work when I tried to do it from the
settings center, but it seems to work fairly well, only problem is that Jaws
goes silent sometimes for 15-20 seconds after I hit jaws-to-pc hot key --
using Chrome.

Thanks for everyones suggestion, I hope this works.

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:22:54 -0400,
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> I'll be surprised if the ReadSelectedText hotkey, JAWSKey+Shift+down
> arrow identifies text that has been highlighted by a web developer or
> document author.  The only keystroke that might work is JAWSKey+5 (on
> the number row) to identify color, and I'm not too optimistic about
> that
either.
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> From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike B
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 5:09 PM
> To: main@jfw.groups.io
> Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page
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>
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> Try this keystroke:
>
> Shift+JAWSKey+DownArrow
>
> Says selected or highlighted text that appears on the screen.
>
> Take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool.
>  *My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately that when
> I pee it cleans the toilet.
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> From: Richard Chen <mailto:richlchen@...>
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> To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
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> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:10 AM
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> Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page
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> It would be great to figure out where in a document is any highlighted
text.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
> <main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> > On Behalf Of Glenn /
> Lenny
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 2:09 PM
> To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
> Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page
>
> If one just wants to read what is highlighted, the Jaws hotkey insert
> + Shift + numpad 2 will read the highlighted text.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Covici" <covici@...
> <mailto:covici@...> >
> To: <main@... <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> >
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 1:02 PM
> Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page
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> hmmm, jaws +f2 just says custom hilight and you can set the foreground
> and background, but seems no way to read them.
>
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:28:59 -0400,
> Adrian Spratt wrote:
> >
> > One thought is to place focus on each of the options and, in each
> > case, press JAWS key+f to compare fonts, etc. This may be all you need.
> > Otherwise, it may tell you how the highlighted text differs from the
> > non-highlighted.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
> > <main@jfw.groups.io
> <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> > On Behalf Of John Covici
> > Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 12:11 PM
> > To: jfw@groups.io <mailto:jfw@groups.io>
> > Subject: how to read hilighted text on web page
> >
> > Hi.  OI am using Jaws 2020 latest update and I can't seem to read
> > hilighted text on web page.  What I am trying to read are options
> > with y/n
>
> > choices and one of them is hilighted.  I tried to  use a different
> > sound scheme such as attributes and colors, but no joy.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> > --
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> > How do
> > you spend it?
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