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Fortunately, I am not the cookie Mont Stir, or things could really fall apart!

By Monte Single · #92789 ·

Agreed. A pretty crummy experience. Hopefully things didn't crumble out of control. Sorry, I had to. Seriously, I’m glad you got the problem fixed.

By Sarah k Alawami · #92788 ·

Re: select and copy not working

Hi Jackie, Maybe my caps are still not working. What is the key command in nvda to turn the announcement of caps on and off?

By Monte Single · #92787 ·

Re: select and copy not working

& you didn't notice letters not being capitalized, Monte? How does *that* work, I wonder? All I have to say is, that was pretty crummy of your keyboard to do that. -- Subscribe to a WordPress for

By Jackie · #92786 ·

Re: Enabling Preview Pane in Thunderbird

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 05:25 PM, Abbie Taylor wrote: Other email programs I've used have the option to read a few lines of a message when displaying it in the message list.- Abbie, there's actually a

By Brian Vogel · #92785 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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.

By Sarah k Alawami · #92784 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Brian Vogel · #92783 ·

Re: Enabling Preview Pane in Thunderbird

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

By Gene · #92782 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Monte Single · #92781 ·

Re: Enabling Preview Pane in Thunderbird

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

By Abbie Taylor · #92780 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Gene · #92779 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Gene · #92778 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Jackie · #92777 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Brian Vogel · #92776 ·

Re: Enabling Preview Pane in Thunderbird

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

By Brian Vogel · #92775 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Gene · #92774 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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

By Jackie · #92773 ·

Re: Enabling Preview Pane in Thunderbird

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

By Brian Vogel · #92772 ·

Re: select and copy not working

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.

By Brian Vogel · #92771 ·

Re: New Video: How to Control your mouse with NVDA without ever touching 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

By Sarah k Alawami · #92770 ·

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