Lol. Glad you got that solved. I've found toast, cracker crumbs, a paper clip, dunno how that got in there, Yes, I've been there with non working keys.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 05:21 PM, Gene wrote: You can't tell if select is working by just checking what is on the screen.- Er, no. Just no, unless it's a situation where a select was done and the

You can see if it saves you time. It wouldn't save me time because the feature itself has a slight delay between when you issue the read command and when the e-mail is read. You can see

Hi Jackie, After a little plying around, wherein, I di find the select feature was,indeed, not working in any text application, I decided to test the shift keys. I found the left shift key was

Thank you, Gene. I'm not asking for security reasons. I receive a lot of email from the Facebook groups to which I belong, and I want to know if those messages are worth opening. Some of them are, and

I have no objection to asking if it would make a meaningful difference but in this case, there are simple things that can be tried first, such as rebooting. I don't think asking for help

I didn't state that properly. You can't tell if select is working by just checking what is on the screen. I was thinking about cutting and pasting. I believe NVDA has a command to

I get that & agree. Sometimes, though, you gotta go through some polemics, as in, if I wanted to know if something was selected, I'd usually have to ask Karl if it had turned all blue, as that would

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 05:02 PM, Jackie wrote: But if the selection is copied or deleted, then don't we know it's working, Brian V?- If we know that, we do know it's working. But based on the

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 04:03 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote: I myself have always left it turned off since it would then otherwise mark a message as read after had just been focused on it for a couple of

It is possible that something in NVDA is interfering with these functions. did you do the first thing to try when such odd problems occur, reboot? I've had rare instances where a

But if the selection is copied or deleted, then don't we know it's working, Brian V? Or, as is likely, am I missing something completely obvious? -- Subscribe to a WordPress for Newbies Mailing List

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 04:27 PM, Gene wrote: Its just a different name for the same thing.- Exactly. Preview pane and reading pane get used interchangeably when talking about email clients in

If, and I do mean if, you happen to have someone sighted around who uses a computer, the fastest way to determine whether selection is somehow broken is to have them take a look while you're doing it.

Oh yeah I’m a pack rat, even though I have a filter that clean out crap (tech term there) every 5 or so years. And yeah unless you have files and stuff you store, you will be more than fine with

Monte, NVDA doesn't select, delete, etc. All it does is speak. So--let's perhaps try selecting, then copying or deleting that selection. If it is that you can actually do that, then NVDA

Hi list, Here is a new one for me. I’m using current versions of nvda with win10 21h2, and office 2016. In the last day or so, when I try to select and copy or delete something in

Its just a different name for the same thing. Gene

The toggle for the view pane is f8.  I don't know why you like to know a little of what is in a message before you open it, but if your concern is safety, it is no more safe to open a message in the

Hi Abbie, There's no preview pane in Thunderbird, however, if you press f8 this will turn on the message pane and you'll be able to read your messages that way. Hope this helps. tony