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This week's In-Process is out, featuring all you need to know about copying text in Word, using Browse mode in Word, getting help in NVDA, and a special thanks to our friends at ISCB! All online now: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-6th-may-2024/

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In-Process 6th May 2024

We’ve previously covered a lot of the headline features of NVDA 2024.1. Today let’s look at a couple you may have missed. Specifically, copying text in Word, and getting help. Copying t…
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Timothy Wynn
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You may wish to fix the alt attribute on the support badge. You wrote “PROUD SPUPORTER” instead of “PROUD SUPPORTER”. Also, we could always copy text with formatting in Word, just not in Browse mode until now according to the release notes.
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@twynn Oops, thanks Timothy! I inserted that image (with alt text) from the last time I used it. Evidently I had the misspelling in the alt text of the original post as well! And thanks re the browse mode copying. I had that in mind but hadn't clearly articulated it. I've updated both now :)
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moashy_mango
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I wanto see some libre office improvements in the next release when it comes to reading documents
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NV Access
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@moashy_mango anything in particular (bonus points of you can give me specific issue numbers on https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues )

Issues · nvaccess/nvda

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - Issues · nvaccess/nvda
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moashy_mango
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nvda doesn’t read the whole document with say all, applies to both libre office and open office
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NV Access
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@moashy_mango Ah this is a known issue with the way LibreOffice / Open Office expose the text. Basically they don't expose text beyond the current page or so. We have an issue for this here: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/4119

but it relies on LibreOffice fixing the issue they have as: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91739 first.


When Performing a Continuous Read Command with OpenOffice 4.1 or LibreOffice, NVDA Stops Reading After Speaking a Few Lines · Issue #4119 · nvaccess/nvda

Reported by dgoldfield on 2014-05-05 13:56 When using NVDA with OpenOffice 4.1, speech often stops reading on its own after reading several lines of text.
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NV Access
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@moashy_mango I meant to add, the workaround, as noted in our issue there, is to press control+end, to jump to the end of the document, and then control+home back to the start which seems to help.
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moashy_mango
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thanks for the heads up, I’ll try that next time
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