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JAWS Power Tips

An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Display All Formulas in an Excel Worksheet with JAWS

Formulas are instructions that tell Excel to calculate results from your data, and they matter because they automatically update when ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Virtualize a Window in JAWS to Read Its Contents

You can virtualize a window using JAWS to create a temporary, text-based copy of its contents. It lets you review ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Display a List of Open Applications Using JAWS

The Windows List dialog displays a list of all currently open application windows on your computer. This includes programs, documents, ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Quickly Access Your Windows Desktop with JAWS

When you have many applications open, it can be difficult to quickly access your desktop to open a file, shortcut, ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Instantly Announce Your Line and Column Position in Word with JAWS

JAWS can announce your precise line and column position in any Word document with a single keystroke. This is helpful ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Spell the Current Word with JAWS

If you’re unsure about the spelling of a word while reading or editing, JAWS can quickly spell it out for ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Disable the New Adobe Acrobat Reader Experience

The "new" Adobe Acrobat Reader experience is a redesigned interface that is enabled by default when you first start Adobe ...
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JAWS Power Tip: How To Quickly Locate Text with the JAWS Find Command

The JAWS Find command is a powerful tool that helps you quickly locate specific words or phrases on a page, ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Adjust The Voice Rate Using Keyboard Commands

You can adjust the JAWS voice rate using keyboard commands so you can quickly make JAWS speak faster or slower ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Access Multiple Sheets in An Excel Workbook

A workbook in Microsoft Excel is a file that can contain multiple sheets, each used to organize related sets of ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To List Specific Form Fields on a Web Page

Form fields are interactive elements on web pages, such as buttons, edit fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and combo boxes. They ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Use Layered Commands to Access Important Features

Layered keystrokes in JAWS are special shortcuts that let you perform powerful actions by pressing keys in sequence, rather than ...
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