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. What is an electronic document? Think of Microsoft Word files (.docx), Adobe Reader files (.pdf), email messages (.msg), and text files (.txt, .rtf, and .html). |
| We’ll be practicing using a Microsoft Word document. We’ll learn some specifics of using Word later. You can download the document below: |
| Document Example |
Reading & Writing
| When you open a new document in most document editor programs, your cursor will be at the beginning of the document. The page is ready to take your input from the keyboard. |
| Exercise: Go to your desktop and open Microsoft Word. Type out the line, “Hello World! I am writing in Word with Zoomtext Fusion!” |
| When you’re done, move the cursor over to the left so that it is positioned right behind the exclamation point after, “Hello World”. You can move the cursor by pressing the left arrow button. What does ZoomText Fusion do when we move through our writing with the arrow buttons? |
| As 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. 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”. |
| With the cursor in position, press the delete button 24 times. What does ZoomText Fusion do when we delete characters? What is this similar to doing? |
| As we delete characters, ZoomText Fusion will read the character we are about to delete. 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”. If you hear ZoomText Fusion say “blank”, it means you’ve reached the end of your content. Deleting characters is similar to using the right arrow button. |
| Now press the Backspace button 12 times. In this instance, what does ZoomText Fusion do? What is this similar to doing? |
| The Backspace button will delete characters to the left of the cursor. It is similar to moving through the line with the left arrow key. |
Moving Through a Document
| In our example document from above, see what happens when you use the up and down arrow keys. How does this differ from what ZoomText Fusion did with the left and right arrow keys? |
| As you can see, the arrow keys move vertically between lines. As the cursor arrives on a new line, ZoomText Fusion will read the entire line. This is different from left and right as those controls moved the cursor horizontally along and read characters. |
| 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? |
| The Page Up and Page Down buttons will move the cursor vertically through a document with half page jumps with each press. Continue pressing page up and you’ll arrive at the top of the document. Continue to press page down and you’ll arrive at the button. With each jump, ZoomText Fusion will read the line. |
| The up and down keys and page up and page down are all great ways to move through a document. |
Reading
Read Characters |
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| Read Previous Character | Numpad 4 (left arrow) |
| Read Current Character | Numpad 5 |
| Read Next Character | Numpad 6 (right arrow) |
Read Words |
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| Read Previous Word | Insert + Numpad 4 (left arrow) |
| Read Current Word | Insert + Numpad 5 |
| Read Next Word | Insert + Numpad 6 (right arrow) |
Read Lines |
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| Read Previous Line | Numpad 8 (up arrow) |
| Read Current Line | Insert + Numpad 8 |
| Read Next Line | Numpad 2 (down arrow) |
Read Sentences |
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| Read Previous Sentence | Alt + Numpad 8 (up arrow) |
| Read Current Sentence | Alt + Numpad 5 |
| Read Next Sentence | Alt + Numpad 2 (down arrow) |
Read Paragraphs |
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| Read Previous Paragraph | Ctrl + Numpad 8 (up arrow) |
| Read Current Paragraph | Ctrl + Numpad 5 |
| Read Next Paragraph | Ctrl + Numpad 2 (down arrow) |
Read To End |
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| Read from cursor to end of document | Insert + Numpad 2 (down arrow) |
Reader
| Function | Keyboard Command | ZoomText Keyboard Command |
| Enable/ Disable Voice | Caps Lock + Alt + Enter | F12 |
| Increase Speaking Rate | Caps Lock + Alt + Up | F8 |
| Decrease Speaking Rate | Caps Lock + Alt + Down | F7 |
| AppReader: App View | Caps Lock + Alt + A | F9 |
| AppReader: Text View | Caps Lock + Alt + T | F10 |
| AppReader: SpeakIt Tool | Caps Lock + Alt + S | |
| Pause Speech | Ctrl |
Selecting Text
| Being able to select text is critical to working in a document. To highlight text hold shift and move the cursor. | |
| Holding shift pressing the left or right arrow keys will highlight text one character at a time. Notice that you can only highlight in one direction at a time. | |
| Since all the key commands we just learned for reading previous and next words, lines, and paragraphs also move the cursor, we can use them to highlight text. | |
| Select previous/ next word | Shift + Insert + Numpad 4 (left arrow)/ Numpad 5(right arrow) |
| Select previous/ next line | Shift + Numpad 8 (up arrow)/ Numpad 2 (down arrow) |
| Select previous/ next paragraph | Shift + Ctrl + Numpad 8 (up arrow)/ Numpad 2 (down arrow) |
| Holding shift and pressing Page Up and Page Down will select items by the half page. | |
| Use the Windows hotkey Ctrl + A to select all the text in a document. | |
Using Selected Text
| Now that you know how to select text, what to do? Well, there are a lot of things. You can read, copy, cut, delete, and replace it. | |
| Read | Shirt + Insert + Numpad 2 (down arrow) |
| Copy | Ctrl + C |
| Cut | Ctrl + X |
| Delete | When text is selected, press Delete or Backspace to remove it. |
| Replace | If you hit any character key while text is selected, the selected text will be replaced with the new input. |
| Text that is copied or cut is placed on the “clipboard”. The clipboard is an invisible space on your computer that temporarily stores data. Every time you use the clipboard, the old data is dumped for the new data. | |
| Read the clipboard | Insert + Windows Key + X |
| Paste the clipboard | Ctrl + V |
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