Hi all, Most of the time when I use NVDA+F9 to set a start marker, and NVDA+F10 twice to copy the text to the clipboard I don't have any problems. I'm trying to select a block of text (a chapter of a

Hi all, I generally just use Notepad for writing anything down, pasting it into Word when I need to send it to anybody else. Due to time pressures with my univeristy deadlines, I'm writing a 40-page f

Hi Chris and others, I hadn't noticed that progress bar and yes, if I turn progress bar notification off it stops! No idea what the purpose of the progress bar is! Thanks, Giles

Hi all, I'm curious whether anybody else has noticed that some websites, admitedly relatively few, make a sort of beeping sound when cursoring down through the page? It doesn't happen when using say a

Hi Brian, it's just the initial logon screen for Win10. I use a PIN and each number is obfuscated with a character that NVDA describes as a circle, but my old dictionary entry for this circle symbol,

I have a related problem. I programmed the circle symbol that is used in place of the asterisk into the NVDA dictionary so that it says star star star star for a 4 digit PIN. After a recent Windows up

Funding for assistive tech for my MA course in creative writing recommended me a Plustek OpticBook 3800 scanner with OpenBook scanning software. I'm afraid to say I haven't tried it yet becuase there

thanks, Desert Moon. I did try that once before and it didn't have any effect but I'll try it again :) Giles

I struggled with this for a long time until somebody suggested changing to Draft view, and that does indeed work a treat. I haven't found a way to get Word to open all documents in Draft view by defau

I used to use Virtual Recorder but, for a reason I couldn't figure out, it stopped saving the recorded mp3s, so I switched to using Audacity and it works perfectly. The steps you need to do in audacit

Hi Pascal, you might like to check out the RS Games website because they have quite a few games designed for the blind, including Battleship. This is their website https://rsgames.org/ I haven't actua

Thanks for the info, Tyler and Joseph. Both suggestions work perfectly ... the reason they didn't before was becuase I was presing NVDA + Num Pad 5 or 2, but if I don't include Num Pad I get the phone

Hi all, I thought there was a way to use object navigation to read letters using the NATO phonetic alphabet (alpha, bravo, juliet etc) but I can't figure out if I'm making that up! The only thing in t

I have a Surface Pro 4 and admit I've never used it as a touch screen device. I plug a USB wifi dongle in that is for a Logitech wireless keyboard. I love the Logitech keyboards because they have an o

At £99 in the UK, it isn't cheap, but I've used ABBYY Fine Reader 12 for three years and love it. My only wish is that it would OCR to something other than Word ... I use Office so that's not a proble

thanks, Quentin. I read the section of the guide on headers and searched the whole document for the word unlink but couldn't find the info. This is a big help :) Giles

Hi all, I have the Microsoft Word with NVDA document and have read the section on headers. I have followed the keystrokes and added a page break and section break and a blank header ... What I could n

thanks Quentin, deleting the existing auto corrects worked a treat :)

Hi all, I occasionally use smiley face and winking smiley face, :) and ;) respectively, but when I do in Word it automatically converts them to what NVDA says is “12” (that's what I hear and that's wh

Thank you so much for the Bluetooth Audio addon, Tony Malykh, I installed it and haven't had any breakup of audio through my bluetooth speakers in the 10 minutes since I installed it, and it always wa

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