LeaseyWord.

Predominantly for LeaseyBasic users with a few exceptions which will be addressed later.

Introduction.

LeaseyWord relates to all word processing functions. They are largely consistent no matter the word processor chosen, however there is one significant difference in relation to Spell Checking which is described in a later section.

Introducing LeaseyWord.

LeaseyWord can be activated through the Leasey Main Menu by selecting the option, "Write a Document or Letter". Alternatively, (if using Leasey Total Package), it can be reached by pressing the Leasey Key, then Control+Shift+W.

The LeaseyWord menu contains eight choices:

  1. Create a Document. If activated, you are first asked for the document name rather than giving it a title at a later time. There are several reasons for this. You may forget to save it, but more importantly, if you return to the Leasey Main Menu, the document is saved automatically and the word processing program is closed down. When the document name has been typed, and the Enter key pressed, a document using the word processor of choice is created with the appropriate document name. You are advised when you can begin typing text.
  2. Store Your Home Address. This option reveals a simple form which can be moved through by pressing the Tab key. Its purpose is to store your home address in readiness for preparing a letter based upon it. The form also contains options as to emboldening, underlining or italicising the address, together with whether you wish today’s date to be inserted or if you would like to insert an address from LeaseyConnect, (Leasey’s Address Book), of which more later. Finally, a group of four Radio Buttons is present concerning where the address should be placed on the page: the left margin, centred, the right margin or fully justified.
  3. Create a Letter Based on Your Home Address. If your home address has been stored using the previous option, you will be asked for the name of the letter. Please type it in, press Enter, and a new document will be created in line with the settings configured within “Store Your Home Address”.
  4. Store Your Temporary Address. This option reveals a simple form which can be moved through by pressing the Tab key. Its purpose is to store your temporary address in readiness for preparing a letter based upon it. The form also contains options as to emboldening, underlining or italicising the address, together with whether you wish today’s date to be inserted or if you would like to insert an address from LeaseyConnect, (Leasey’s Address Book), of which more later. Finally, a group of four Radio Buttons is present concerning where the address should be placed on the page: the left margin, centred, the right margin or fully justified.
  5. Create a Letter Based on Your Temporary Address. If your temporary address has been stored using the previous option, you will be asked for the name of the letter. Please type it in, press Enter, and a new document will be created in line with the settings configured within “Store Your Temporary Address”.
  6. Open a Document. Documents are saved in a separate folder, (not in the default Windows “Documents” folder). This is to ensure that you only have access to the documents you have saved rather than anything you are not expecting, such as folders or files placed there by the word processing software. When this option is activated, a list of all the documents and letters previously stored are available. Press Enter on a document in order to open it. To close it, press the Escape key to bring into view the Leasey Application Menu, and then press Escape once more to return to the Leasey Main Menu, whereupon the document will close.
  7. Delete a Document. This option will bring into view a list of previously stored documents and letters. Select a document you wish to delete with the Arrow keys and press Enter to delete.
  8. Go Back to the Main Menu. If LeaseyBasic is active, at the bottom of each Leasey Application Menu is an option to return to the Leasey Main Menu. While returning to this menu can be achieved by pressing the Escape key, it has been placed at the end of each menu both for convenience and for those people viewing the menu on a computer monitor.

The LeaseyWord Application Menu, for Leasey Basic Users.

Let us now turn our attention to some of the options on the LeaseyWord Application Menu. Remember, this can be brought into view either by pressing the Leasey Application Menu key, (second in the row of three to the right of the F12 key), or by pressing Escape when working in a document.

Many of the options are self-explanatory, but some have special significance as described below.

  1. Insert Today’s Date. This will simply type today’s date into your document at the cursor position.
  2. Find Text. This option, (together with Find Again and Find and Replace), are Leasey’s own specialist utilities rather than using the conventional tools within the word processor of choice. With the Find utility, type the text you wish to search for, press Enter, and it should be located. This can also be accessed by pressing the Leasey Key then Control+F. Find Again will search for the next occurrence of the word. It can be accessed by pressing the Leasey Key then Control+N. Finally, Find and Replace presents you with a simple form through which you can move by pressing the Tab key. This can be activated by pressing the Leasey Key then Control+H. Type in the original word, press Tab, and type the replacement. Press Enter, and the word is replaced. Note that if text was selected prior to the Find and Replace facility being used, the replacement only affects the selected text.
  3. Formatting and Printing. This takes you into a sub-menu of choices concerning adjusting the size and font of the text, capitalisation, sending the document to the default printer, and more.
  4. Hear Information About This Document. This reports the number of characters, words and lines in the document. It can be accessed directly by pressing the Leasey Key then I.

Spell Checking.

Spell Checking can be accessed through the Leasey Application Menu or directly by pressing the Leasey Key then K.

Unfortunately, the method for spell checking is the only aspect of word processing which is inconsistent between the two supported word processing packages.

If you are using HJPad, this will simply launch the standard HJ Pad Spell Checking dialog. If you are a new computer user, please refer to the DAISY "Getting Started" guide for a description of using the HJPad Spell Checker.

Please work through the following procedure to use the Spell Checker in Microsoft word, although you should know that the standard Spell Checking Dialog Box is available by pressing F7.

  1. Move to the top of the document by pressing Control+Home.
  2. Access the Leasey Application Menu and select "Spell Check This Document", or press the Leasey Key followed by K. You can also press ALT+Semicolon.
  3. JAWS will announce the first incorrectly spelled word, it will also be spelled.
  4. Press the Context Menu key, (on a Desktop keyboard this is three keys along from the right of the Space Bar).
  5. A vertical list of choices is now available.
  6. Press the Up or Down Arrow keys to move through the list of possible choices. The focused word will be spoken and spelled. From this list, you can also ignore the word or add it to Microsoft word’s dictionary so it is not flagged as an error in the future.
  7. When the desired option in the list is reached, please press Enter, then repeat the above steps so as to move to the next spelling error, beginning with the Leasey Key followed by K.

The following keystrokes may be helpful:

Remembering the Current Position in a Document.

Particularly helpful for advanced users, Leasey can retain your place within a Microsoft Word document, Wordpad or Notepad file. The next time you open the document, Leasey will automatically set focus to the last place you were reading. This is especially helpful if you are reading a long document.

To enable this feature, press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+R. This is a toggle action and will enable and disable the feature. You will hear an announcement as to whether it is enabled or disabled.

Moving Back to a Previous Position.

If you are using the "Go To" Dialog in Microsoft Word so as to change page in a document, you may wish to return to your previous page. This is particularly useful if the author of a document has invited you to check a specific page for reference purposes.

To use this feature, follow these steps.

  1. Within your Microsoft Word document, press Control+G.
  2. Type a page number you wish to move to, such as 26, and press Enter, followed by Escape so you can begin reading page 26.
  3. When you have read the text on this page, press the Leasey Key then Shift+4 (on the numbers row) to return to your previous page.

Accessing Recently Used Documents.

Leasey remembers the previous 25 documents you have opened. To access these documents, with Microsoft Word in focus press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+O. You should find a list of the recent documents available to you.

Press the Up or Down Arrow keys to move through the list, or type the first few letters of the one you want. When it is located, press Enter to load the document.

Unprotecting a Document.

Chances are that if you have opened a Microsoft Word document, Excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint presentation from an Email message, for security reasons it may be in "Protected View". However JAWS cannot read documents in this view. So you either have to unprotect the document from the Microsoft application Ribbon, placing it into "Editing View", or you can press the Leasey keystroke, Leasey Key then Control+Shift+U. This will immediately unprotect the document for you.

Sticky Quick Navigation Keys.

JAWS contains an extremely useful feature relating to Microsoft Word called Quick Navigation Keys. When enabled, you can move to different elements in the document by pressing keys on the keyboard. When Quick Navigation keys are enabled, you cannot type text. Single key presses allow you to move to headings, tables, the next incorrectly spelled word, and many other aspects of the document.

The difficulty arises when you move away from the document where Quick navigation keys have been invoked. Moving back to the same document disables this feature. So if you begin pressing keys expecting to move to different elements, those characters get entered into your document instead.

Let us go a little further. You have a User Guide in Microsoft Word format. You enable Quick Navigation keys because it is easier to navigate the document using that method. You then move to an alternative document. Quick Navigation mode is disabled. You then come back to the User Guide expecting those Quick Navigation keys to be in place. They are not. JAWS has disabled Quick Navigation mode and it hasn't even told you that it has done so.

Leasey makes it possible for you to retain Quick Navigation preferences on a document by document basis. If this mode is enabled, whenever you invoke Quick Navigation for a document, that preference is remembered even if you restart the computer or close and re-open the document at a later date.

To enable this feature, from within Microsoft word press the Leasey key then JAWS Key+Z. This is a toggle action and will enable and disable remembering the Quick Navigation preference. In most cases, you are going to enable this mode and then forget it.

Open up a document for which you would like to use Quick Navigation keys, such as a report or User Guide.

Enable Quick Navigation in the usual way by pressing JAWS Key+Z. JAWS confirms that Quick Navigation is enabled. That document has now been marked by Leasey as requiring Quick Navigation to be preserved in future sessions.

Open up a new document, perhaps by pressing Control+N, or an existing one from File Explorer. Quick Navigation is off at this point because that is default JAWS behaviour.

Press Control+F6 to switch back to the original document. You will note two things. First, if sounds are enabled you should hear a high pitched bleep; if not, an announcement will be given to indicate that Quick Navigation is on. Second, you can now go ahead and use your quick navigation keys to move to different sections of the document.

Now press Control+F6 again to move back to the other document. You should find that you are able to type text because Quick Navigation is off for that document. In summary, you can move back and forth between these two documents: in the report or User Guide you can use Quick Navigation mode, and in the other, you will not be doing that because it is the document into which you are typing text.

Finally, close all documents down. Then, using File Explorer, locate the User Guide or report we were using earlier. Press Enter to open it. Again, through the playing of a sound or a speech prompt, you should be advised that Quick Navigation is enabled for that document.

There is very little more to say relating to this feature, with the exception of how you might go about disabling the remembering of the Quick Navigation state for a document where it had been enabled. Simply open up the document where Quick Navigation had been applied and press JAWS Key+Z to disable Quick Navigation mode. Leasey has now forgotten all about that document. When you open it up subsequently, Quick Navigation will be disabled as is usual JAWS default behaviour.

Creating Emails, Tasks or Appointments From Anywhere.

If you use Microsoft Outlook to compose Emails, Tasks and Appointments, you can now carry them out from within any application. Microsoft Outlook does not need to be running initially for you to be able to do so.

Press the Leasey Key followed by ALT+E for an Email, ALT+T for a Task or ALT+A for an Appointment. Back to Help Index.