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moderated keystrokes for picture smart

dennis
 

incert spacebar then the letter p? i'm missing something.

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moderated Re: Spelling error and indicator sounds

Brenda Emerson-Alford
 

Hello Mike,

 

On question number 2 I have the setting of sound alert at top and bottom of page but no sound happens.  I am using the latest version of JAWS 2019 and Windows 10 along with word 2016.  Any thoughts?

 

Brenda

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike B
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 12:50 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Spelling error and indicator sounds

 

Hi Marilyn,

 

Answers are below the questions:

1: When I’m typing, sometimes I hear “spelling error” and then “out of spelling error.” I do not want to hear these announcements.

A: Open the Settings Center with, Insert + 6, on the number row, now press, control, shift + D, to open default all applications.

Down arrow to, Text processing closed arrow to open.

Down arrow to, Proofing closed, right arrow to open.

Down arrow 1 time to, Detect spelling while navigating..., now press the spacebar until Jaws reports, Off.

Tab to,apply, press the spacebar, tab to, Okay, press enter to save / close.

 

2: Before, I would hear a ding when moving the cursor either to the very top or bottom of the document. Now all I hear is blank, blank, blank… and I am not sure when I’m at the top or bottom. I want the sounds back.

A: While in the application press, Insert + V , to open quick settings.

Down arrow to find, Top and bottom edg alert with..., press the spacebar until Jaws reports, alert with sound, now tab to, Okay, press enter to save / close.

 


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.

----- Original Message -----

From: marilyn

Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 11:59 AM

Subject: Re: Spelling error and indicator sounds

 

Hello everyone,

 

Some settings on my machine seem to have changed, though I didn’t make the changes. Please give me step by step directions so I can change them back. I’m running Jaws 2020 and Windows 10.  

 

1: When I’m typing, sometimes I hear “spelling error” and then “out of spelling error.” I do not want to hear these announcements.

  

2: Before, I would hear a ding when moving the cursor either to the very top or bottom of the document. Now all I hear is blank, blank, blank… and I am not sure when I’m at the top or bottom. I want the sounds back.

 

Many thanks.

 

Marilyn

 

 
moderated Re: Jaws and synthesizers

David Griffith
 

As far as I know this is not possible through one sound card audio
settings although there may be mixer software that I am not aware of.
When I did some work for the RNIB years ago to solve this they provided a
hardware kit, a splitter box which forced Jaws through one channel and
allowed you to hear another sound input such as a telephone line through
the other channel of a headset/microphone setup. This was quite efficient
and I believe that this kit can still be purchased.
Jaws can be used with multiple sound cards, perhaps a USB as well as an on
board sound card. In theory you could have 2 sound cards and using a
splitter box force Jaws output into one channel and another card through the
secondary channel with such a kit. Of course As a much cheaper Heath
Robinson solution is to simply use 2 sets of tin ear earphones coming from 2
installed sound cards and simply put one earphone from each card in each ear
to hear the output from both cards at once.

David Griffith.

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Boston, Jason W
Sent: 16 June 2020 15:28
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Jaws and synthesizers

Hello all,

I was wondering if there is a way to make Jaws only send output to the
right or left audio channel? If not jaws, can this be done to one of the
synthesizers that come with Jaws?



Thanks,

Jason



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moderated Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

Dean Martineau <topdot@...>
 

No, Word just opens the document, but generally does it very well. I would wonder if it handles the line numbers better than Adobe, but I don't have a document of this sort to test. If you'd like to send me one, which I assume may be difficult because of confidentiality, you can send it to me at topdot@...

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 10:40 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers


I don't think you'd get any choice for reading order if you sent the
document to word. Probably the best choice for this situation would be
to use k1000 to recognize the pdf using the omnipage engine with column
identification disabled.



On 6/16/2020 09:07, Dean Martineau wrote:
I wonder what would happen if you sent that PDF to Word, assuming you're running something modern, Microsoft 365 for instance. Now I seldom open PDF's in Adobe. I have Word in my SendTo folder, so when I encounter a PDF, in the context menu I hit N for SendTo, W for Word and the PDF opens very readably in Word. As I'm writing, I don't know why I don't just change the default for PdF to Word. Just a thought.



-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 11:09 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

When you open the document, does adobe not ask you what reading order
you'd prefer? If so, have you tried the various options? If not, maybe
you should check in the edit menu for the accessibility assistant and
turn the reading order feature back on. May not help, but this sounds
like what the feature should have been meant for.





On 6/15/2020 19:56, kelby carlson wrote:
In my work, I frequently have to read transcripts of proceeding where each of the lines is numbered. When I open a transcript like this in Adobe, frequently all of the line numbers will be at the top of the page and I have to keep arrowing down to get to the text. I know this is a unique problem, but is there anything JAWS can do that will help with this? Right now it takes me longer to read these documents than it should.
moderated Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

Alan Lemly
 

Kelby,

I'm doubtful there is anything JAWS can do to make your document more
readable. It sounds as if whoever created the document was using Microsoft
Word to number the lines and when they saved it as a PDF file, the line
numbers were treated as a separate object from the text and placed at the
beginning of the created PDF instead of left next to their corresponding
text lines. I think you should talk to the creator of the documents and ask
them to try printing as PDF instead of saving or exporting as PDF to see if
that creates the desired results.

Alan Lemly

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of kelby
carlson
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 7:56 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

In my work, I frequently have to read transcripts of proceeding where each
of the lines is numbered. When I open a transcript like this in Adobe,
frequently all of the line numbers will be at the top of the page and I have
to keep arrowing down to get to the text. I know this is a unique problem,
but is there anything JAWS can do that will help with this? Right now it
takes me longer to read these documents than it should.
moderated Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

Mario
 

I wonder how the recognition of the OCR feature in JAWS would handle the problem being discussed.

-------- Original Message --------
From: Chris Hill [mailto:hillco@...]
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 10:39 AM
Subject: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

I don't think you'd get any choice for reading order if you sent the
document to word.  Probably the best choice for this situation would be
to use k1000 to recognize the pdf using the omnipage engine with column
identification disabled.



On 6/16/2020 09:07, Dean Martineau wrote:
I wonder what would happen if you sent that PDF to Word, assuming
you're running something modern, Microsoft 365 for instance. Now I
seldom open PDF's in Adobe. I have Word in my SendTo folder, so when I
encounter a PDF, in the context menu  I hit N for SendTo, W for Word
and the PDF opens very readably in Word. As I'm writing, I don't know
why I don't just change the default for PdF to Word.  Just a thought.



-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 11:09 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

When you open the document, does adobe not ask you what reading order
you'd prefer?  If so, have you tried the various options? If not, maybe
you should check in the edit menu for the accessibility assistant and
turn the reading order feature back on.  May not help, but this sounds
like what the feature should have been meant for.





On 6/15/2020 19:56, kelby carlson wrote:
In my work, I frequently have to read transcripts of proceeding where
each of the lines is numbered. When I open a transcript like this in
Adobe, frequently all of the line numbers will be at the top of the
page and I have to keep arrowing down to get to the text. I know this
is a unique problem, but is there anything JAWS can do that will help
with this? Right now it takes me longer to read these documents than
it should.










.
moderated Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

Chris Hill
 

I don't think you'd get any choice for reading order if you sent the document to word.  Probably the best choice for this situation would be to use k1000 to recognize the pdf using the omnipage engine with column identification disabled.

On 6/16/2020 09:07, Dean Martineau wrote:
I wonder what would happen if you sent that PDF to Word, assuming you're running something modern, Microsoft 365 for instance. Now I seldom open PDF's in Adobe. I have Word in my SendTo folder, so when I encounter a PDF, in the context menu I hit N for SendTo, W for Word and the PDF opens very readably in Word. As I'm writing, I don't know why I don't just change the default for PdF to Word. Just a thought.



-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 11:09 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

When you open the document, does adobe not ask you what reading order
you'd prefer? If so, have you tried the various options? If not, maybe
you should check in the edit menu for the accessibility assistant and
turn the reading order feature back on. May not help, but this sounds
like what the feature should have been meant for.





On 6/15/2020 19:56, kelby carlson wrote:
In my work, I frequently have to read transcripts of proceeding where each of the lines is numbered. When I open a transcript like this in Adobe, frequently all of the line numbers will be at the top of the page and I have to keep arrowing down to get to the text. I know this is a unique problem, but is there anything JAWS can do that will help with this? Right now it takes me longer to read these documents than it should.
moderated Jaws and synthesizers

Boston, Jason W
 

Hello all,

I was wondering if there is  a way to make Jaws only send output to the right or left audio channel? If not jaws, can this be done to one of the synthesizers that come with Jaws?

 

Thanks,

Jason

 

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moderated Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

Dean Martineau <topdot@...>
 

I wonder what would happen if you sent that PDF to Word, assuming you're running something modern, Microsoft 365 for instance. Now I seldom open PDF's in Adobe. I have Word in my SendTo folder, so when I encounter a PDF, in the context menu I hit N for SendTo, W for Word and the PDF opens very readably in Word. As I'm writing, I don't know why I don't just change the default for PdF to Word. Just a thought.

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 11:09 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

When you open the document, does adobe not ask you what reading order
you'd prefer? If so, have you tried the various options? If not, maybe
you should check in the edit menu for the accessibility assistant and
turn the reading order feature back on. May not help, but this sounds
like what the feature should have been meant for.





On 6/15/2020 19:56, kelby carlson wrote:
In my work, I frequently have to read transcripts of proceeding where each of the lines is numbered. When I open a transcript like this in Adobe, frequently all of the line numbers will be at the top of the page and I have to keep arrowing down to get to the text. I know this is a unique problem, but is there anything JAWS can do that will help with this? Right now it takes me longer to read these documents than it should.
moderated Re: word count in MS Word

george b <gbmagoo@...>
 

Lol mike don’t get upset, but what did that have to do with word count?

 

That bar stool must be catching up with you…lol

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike B
Sent: June 16, 2020 6:01
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

When the, Save , button comes up tab 1 time to the, Don't save , button and press the spacebar on that.  The document should close without any supposed or unwanted changes.


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.

----- Original Message -----

From: CJ &AA MAY

Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:27 AM

Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

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

Alison

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike B
Sent: 15 June 2020 18:10
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Hi Al & Adrian,

 

When I think to use the, Control, Shift + G , keystroke instead of the, Insert + Pagedown , keystroke and get that save dialogue I tab 1 time to the, don't save button, and press the spacebar.  This closes the document with no problems or changes to the document.


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.

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 6:21 AM

Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

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.

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Al Sorrentino via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:18 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

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

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf of Mike B
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 3:49 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Another keystroke that will give a little more than the word count is Control, Shift + G.


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.

----- Original Message -----

From: Alan Lemly

Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:44 PM

Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Adrian,

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

Alan

-----Original Message-----
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,
Dean Martineau wrote:
>
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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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Richard Chen <mailto:richlchen@...>
>
> To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
>
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:10 AM
>
> Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page
>
>
>
> It would be great to figure out where in a document is any highlighted
text.
>
> -----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
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >          John Covici wb2una
> >          covici@... <mailto:covici@...>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici wb2una
>          covici@... <mailto:covici@...>
>
>
>
>
>
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--
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@...
moderated Re: Video Chatting on Facebook Using JAWS

JM Casey
 

Never tried using this feature, but you can download the messenger “app” and install that. It’s a Windows Store app. Go to

http://www.messenger.com

It has buttons to audio or video call people on your list. Not sure if there’s a way to do this from within browser or not…

 

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rick Miller
Sent: June 15, 2020 11:17 PM
To: jfw@groups.io
Subject: Video Chatting on Facebook Using JAWS

 

Anyone:

 

I looked up the instructions about how to video chat with a friend on Facebook.  The first thing it says is “Click in the upper right of the screen.”  Is there any way using JAWS that you can video chat with someone?

 

 

 

Rick Miller

 
moderated Re: word count in MS Word

Mike B
 

When the, Save , button comes up tab 1 time to the, Don't save , button and press the spacebar on that.  The document should close without any supposed or unwanted changes.

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.

----- Original Message -----
From: CJ &AA MAY
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

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

Alison

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike B
Sent: 15 June 2020 18:10
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Hi Al & Adrian,

 

When I think to use the, Control, Shift + G , keystroke instead of the, Insert + Pagedown , keystroke and get that save dialogue I tab 1 time to the, don't save button, and press the spacebar.  This closes the document with no problems or changes to the document.


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.

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 6:21 AM

Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

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.

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Al Sorrentino via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:18 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

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

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf of Mike B
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 3:49 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Another keystroke that will give a little more than the word count is Control, Shift + G.


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.

----- Original Message -----

From: Alan Lemly

Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:44 PM

Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Adrian,

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

Alan

-----Original Message-----
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,
Dean Martineau wrote:
>
> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Richard Chen <mailto:richlchen@...>
>
> To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
>
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:10 AM
>
> Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page
>
>
>
> It would be great to figure out where in a document is any highlighted
text.
>
> -----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
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >          John Covici wb2una
> >          covici@... <mailto:covici@...>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici wb2una
>          covici@... <mailto:covici@...>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [2  <text/html; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]

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Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@...
moderated Re: thanks for the helpful replies to my inquiry in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

Hank William Merchant
 

 
Hello back,
 
I just want to say a big thanks very much to all that have replied to my Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions? inquiry email with all your very helpful suggestions on how to do this. Again much, much thanks! I really appreciate all your helpful replys.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All the best,
Warmest regards,
 
Hank
 
 

From: Brian Vogel
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 12:25 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?
 
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:33 PM, ratshtron wrote:
open the folder and move to the first file with the particular extention and now, press and hold the ctrl key and start arrowing down through the list of files and every time you land on another file with same extention, press the spacebar to select it. be sure to continue to hold the ctrl key. once you have selected all the files with the same extention, press the delete key and the files will be deleted once you confirm you wish to delete the number of multi-files.

It is much, much easier to use the search function (CTRL+E) and enter the search criteria for all the files you want, then Select All, then delete.

So, once you're in the folder, say you want to delete all PDF files in the folder.  Hit CTRL+E then type *.pdf in the search box then hit enter.  The search will return only files in that folder that are PDF files.  Hit CTRL+A to select all, then hit the DEL key.  You're done.

Of course, the search criteria can be anything that's appropriate, so if you wanted only PDF files that start with, say, Nov, then type Nov*.pdf in the search box and hit enter.  You can use any extension and you can combine things with OR if you want, say all JPG files OR PDF files, that would be *.jpg OR *.PDF, and you'll only get files with one of those two extensions back.

Hand gathering is far more error prone.
 
--

Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363  

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss
moderated Re: word count in MS Word

CJ &AA MAY
 

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

Alison

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike B
Sent: 15 June 2020 18:10
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Hi Al & Adrian,

 

When I think to use the, Control, Shift + G , keystroke instead of the, Insert + Pagedown , keystroke and get that save dialogue I tab 1 time to the, don't save button, and press the spacebar.  This closes the document with no problems or changes to the document.


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.

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 6:21 AM

Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

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.

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Al Sorrentino via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:18 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

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

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf of Mike B
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 3:49 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Another keystroke that will give a little more than the word count is Control, Shift + G.


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.

----- Original Message -----

From: Alan Lemly

Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:44 PM

Subject: Re: word count in MS Word

 

Adrian,

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

Alan

-----Original Message-----
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,
Dean Martineau wrote:
>
> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Richard Chen <mailto:richlchen@...>
>
> To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
>
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:10 AM
>
> Subject: Re: how to read highlighted text on web page
>
>
>
> It would be great to figure out where in a document is any highlighted
text.
>
> -----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
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >          John Covici wb2una
> >          covici@... <mailto:covici@...>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici wb2una
>          covici@... <mailto:covici@...>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [2  <text/html; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]

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Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@...
moderated Re: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

CJ &AA MAY
 

I have a similar problem with the lyrics sent to me by Rock Choir, so a
solution would be much appreciated.
Alison

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of kelby carlson
Sent: 16 June 2020 01:56
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Reading PDF Documents with Line Numbers

In my work, I frequently have to read transcripts of proceeding where each
of the lines is numbered. When I open a transcript like this in Adobe,
frequently all of the line numbers will be at the top of the page and I have
to keep arrowing down to get to the text. I know this is a unique problem,
but is there anything JAWS can do that will help with this? Right now it
takes me longer to read these documents than it should.
moderated Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

Brian Vogel
 

Apparently, I'm not alone in having the "Current Folder" option to limit search results fail to work.  A very recent topic on answers.microsoft.com:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/file-explorer-search-current-folder-option-doesnt/cbef261b-0ab0-47d9-a784-1598a550866b

Checking Feedback Hub there are currently three items open that turn up if you use "current folder" as your search phrase, and all have been open for months and note the issue is in Build 18363.  I've just added a comment to all three of them that this is still going on as of today's date.
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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss
moderated Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

Brian Vogel
 

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:32 PM, Bill White wrote:
I opened the folder Documents
Well, it also depends on how you have search itself configured.  It is important to make sure that your default is "Current Folder" rather than All Subfolders, or to switch to only search in Current Folder rather than All Subfolders.

The current default behavior is "All Subfolders."   I am having a huge problem figuring out how to either reconfigure this permanently or even to get the search to limit itself only to "Current Folder" with keyboard shortcuts.   I can get to "Current Folder" via ALT+JS,F after having run the search, but it doesn't change the results.  I can only get the results to change sometimes via "point and click" application of that ribbon control item, too.

This used to be a simple matter to reset default search behavior, as this question from 2017 on https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/windows-10-explorer-search-default-current-folder/fbd72e0c-880e-453d-9e85-9228767fa9de notes:
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hey folks,

 

is there a way to set the default preference for the explorer search from "all subfolders" to "current folder"?

 

In Win7 there was an option in the "folder and search options" and in Win8 there was a RegKey "SearchSubFolders" under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Search\Preferences.

 

In Win10 the option is not available and the RegKey has no effect.

 

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

Philipp
--

I'll keep looking, but so far getting a consistent "Current Folder" only result is just not happening at the moment, and I've always been able to get that to work before (and usually set that as my default, as it's the exception where I want all subfolders searched).
 
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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss
moderated Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

Richard Turner
 

Depending on how many levels deep the folder is.
using the command prompt, and then like the good old DOS days, do CD\foldername, and again the backslash, next folder until your crompt shows c:\ followed by the full path.
Then type del *.mp3
and they will all be deleted just in that folder.
Then type exit and hit enter to get out of the command prompt.
I'mwriting this on an iPhone with braille input, so hopefully that made sense.
If not, I can rewrite it on my computer in the morning.




Richard
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have regretted not granting grace to others, I’ve never once regretted extending it.)" - Edward Herbert

On Jun 15, 2020, at 8:32 PM, Bill White <billwhite92701@...> wrote:



Hi, Brian. I tried doing what you said. I opened the folder Documents, searched for files with an mp3 extension, and it gave me mp3 results from subfolders, as well as files which no longer reside in that folder.

I put into the search Window (CONTROL plus E) once the folder was open:

 

*.mp3

 

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 8:25 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

 

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:33 PM, ratshtron wrote:

open the folder and move to the first file with the particular extention and now, press and hold the ctrl key and start arrowing down through the list of files and every time you land on another file with same extention, press the spacebar to select it. be sure to continue to hold the ctrl key. once you have selected all the files with the same extention, press the delete key and the files will be deleted once you confirm you wish to delete the number of multi-files.


It is much, much easier to use the search function (CTRL+E) and enter the search criteria for all the files you want, then Select All, then delete.

So, once you're in the folder, say you want to delete all PDF files in the folder.  Hit CTRL+E then type *.pdf in the search box then hit enter.  The search will return only files in that folder that are PDF files.  Hit CTRL+A to select all, then hit the DEL key.  You're done.

Of course, the search criteria can be anything that's appropriate, so if you wanted only PDF files that start with, say, Nov, then type Nov*.pdf in the search box and hit enter.  You can use any extension and you can combine things with OR if you want, say all JPG files OR PDF files, that would be *.jpg OR *.PDF, and you'll only get files with one of those two extensions back.

Hand gathering is far more error prone.
 
--

Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363  

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss
moderated Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

Bill White
 

Hi, Brian. I tried doing what you said. I opened the folder Documents, searched for files with an mp3 extension, and it gave me mp3 results from subfolders, as well as files which no longer reside in that folder.

I put into the search Window (CONTROL plus E) once the folder was open:

 

*.mp3

 

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 8:25 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

 

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:33 PM, ratshtron wrote:

open the folder and move to the first file with the particular extention and now, press and hold the ctrl key and start arrowing down through the list of files and every time you land on another file with same extention, press the spacebar to select it. be sure to continue to hold the ctrl key. once you have selected all the files with the same extention, press the delete key and the files will be deleted once you confirm you wish to delete the number of multi-files.


It is much, much easier to use the search function (CTRL+E) and enter the search criteria for all the files you want, then Select All, then delete.

So, once you're in the folder, say you want to delete all PDF files in the folder.  Hit CTRL+E then type *.pdf in the search box then hit enter.  The search will return only files in that folder that are PDF files.  Hit CTRL+A to select all, then hit the DEL key.  You're done.

Of course, the search criteria can be anything that's appropriate, so if you wanted only PDF files that start with, say, Nov, then type Nov*.pdf in the search box and hit enter.  You can use any extension and you can combine things with OR if you want, say all JPG files OR PDF files, that would be *.jpg OR *.PDF, and you'll only get files with one of those two extensions back.

Hand gathering is far more error prone.
 
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363  

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
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moderated Re: in win10 how do you get to the command prompt?

Brian Vogel
 

Hank,

         You can hit the Windows Key, immediately type cmd, then hit Enter.  Or you can hit Windows Key+R, enter cmd in Open text box, then hit Enter.  Or, you can go to the Windows Search box and enter either the word command or just cmd, and hit enter.

          Any of the above will instantly open a Command Prompt window where you will be sitting in your HOME folder, typically C:\Users\{insert appropriate acct here} and you will have focus just after the command prompt itself.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363  

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss