Holding shift pressing the left or right arrow keys will highlight text one character at a time. To highlight text hold shift and move the cursor. Selecting Text Being able to select text is critical to working in a document. The up and down keys and page up and page down are all great ways to move through a document. With each jump, ZoomText Fusion will read the line. Continue to press page down and you’ll arrive at the button. Continue pressing page up and you’ll arrive at the top of the document. The Page Up and Page Down buttons will move the cursor vertically through a document with half page jumps with each press.
What happens to the cursor and what does ZoomText Fusion do when you press the Page Up button? How about when we press the Page Down button? What is this similar to? This is different from left and right as those controls moved the cursor horizontally along and read characters. As the cursor arrives on a new line, ZoomText Fusion will read the entire line. How does this differ from what ZoomText Fusion did with the left and right arrow keys?Īs you can see, the arrow keys move vertically between lines. Moving Through a Document In our example document from above, see what happens when you use the up and down arrow keys. It is similar to moving through the line with the left arrow key. The Backspace button will delete characters to the left of the cursor. In this instance, what does ZoomText Fusion do? What is this similar to doing? Deleting characters is similar to using the right arrow button.
If you hear ZoomText Fusion say “blank”, it means you’ve reached the end of your content. For example, if my cursor is at the beginning of the sentence, “I love cats”, and I press delete 11 times, I will hear “space”, “l”, “o”, “v”, “e”, space,”c”, “a”, “t”, “s”. What does ZoomText Fusion do when we delete characters? What is this similar to doing?Īs we delete characters, ZoomText Fusion will read the character we are about to delete. With the cursor in position, press the delete button 24 times. For example, if my cursor is at the end of the word “cat” and I press left arrow 3 times, I will hear ZoomText Fusion say “t”, “a”, “c”. What does ZoomText Fusion do when we move through our writing with the arrow buttons?Īs we move through a line or word or paragraph with the left and right arrow keys, ZoomText Fusion will read out the character we just moved past. You can move the cursor by pressing the left arrow button. When you’re done, move the cursor over to the left so that it is positioned right behind the exclamation point after, “Hello World”. Type out the line, “Hello World! I am writing in Word with Zoomtext Fusion!” The page is ready to take your input from the keyboard.Įxercise: Go to your desktop and open Microsoft Word. Reading & Writing When you open a new document in most document editor programs, your cursor will be at the beginning of the document. We’ll learn some specifics of using Word later. We’ll be practicing using a Microsoft Word document. What is an electronic document? Think of Microsoft Word files (.docx), Adobe Reader files (.pdf), email messages (.msg), and text files (.txt.
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Start Reading and Writing In this lesson, we’re going to start learning how to use ZoomText Fusion to navigate, read, and edit an electronic document.
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