Selecting Items on a Webpage

[FZWG]

Appreciate some assistance.

Trying to select/highlight some info from a website without the use of a mouse.

Control+A selects/highlights all items on a webpage. If you want to select just two or three sentences to copy and paste them elswhere, how is this done?

It's been ages since working without a mouse. Can't remember.

Thanks for the help.

[oryx]

You can use the tab key to move between the links and the enter key to activate them. I don't know that there is any way that you could select ordinary text without a mouse.

[HackinCowboy]

I don't think it's possible to highlight individual items without a mouse since even though it's text on the screen it's still just an object. Therefore you can't use the typical 'blinking cursor' to work your way through each part of the object. You could always just select everything, copy it to say notepad, then delete the parts you don't want.

[FZWG]

Thank you for your replies.

Tried all sorts of suggestions, but still cannot select just two or three sentences to copy off a website and paste them elswhere.

It seems as if one is out of luck without a mouse.

Can select info on the entire webpage, copy it elsewhere (i.e.: Word), and then select a couple of sentences, but otherwise nothing seems to work.


Will keep trying, maybe.........

[Morpheus]

Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Accesibility Options

Select the mouse tab
Check the box writen as "use mouse keys"
Apply > Ok

(or simply press Shift+Alt+NumLock to turn on the mouse option)

Now u can use your neumeric keys (2, 4, 6, 8) instead of the mouse

To highlight the text in this way, first press the zero key
Then u can move your cursor using the neumeric keys to highlight your text

Then ofcourse u know Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+P to paste

Good luck

[glc]

Ctrl+V to paste - Ctrl+P is "print".

[FZWG]

Thank You!!!!!!!!!

It worked!!!!!!

Guess hitting the zero before the cursor keys does the trick. Control+C and Control+V does the rest.

Looked everywhere for this.

Morpheus,

Is there any particular website that provides this guidance, or is this something you discovered?

Trying to help an older person with problems in both hands, and the individual wants to use the mouse as little as possible. There will be one happy camper!!

:) :) :) :)

[Morpheus]

Originally posted by glc
Ctrl+V to paste - Ctrl+P is "print".

Oops my bad. Its ctrl+V

[Morpheus]

u r most welcome FZ. For some more shortcuts, u can check out:

http://www.computerhope.com/shortcut.htm

http://www.accesstechnologyinstitute.com/reference/refcards/windows98.htm


.....Another happy ending for the PcMech :)

[FZWG]

You bet!!

Nothing better than great minds sharing info.

Thanks also for the links. Will take a good look at them and see what can be used to help this person.

Have a great Labor Day weekend.


:) :) :) :)

[David_Jones]

I always use this as a convenience (I hate to have to take my hands off the keyboard - it slows down your workrate to a snails pace).

Additional notes:

Press 0 to hold down the left mouse button, and DEL (both on the numeric pad) to release the left mouse button (try it to see what I mean - it is obvious once you do).

My standard setting is to have the numeric pad locked on (NumLock turned on) at boot up, and the mouse-keys setting such that turning off the numlock feature activates mouse-keys.

In addition, I always use the keybord within applications (Alt normally activates the menus, and single key-strokes to access menu items). This always ends up working much better and faster than stabbing away with the mouse. It also has the advantage of being accurate and positive (against the analogue nature of the mouse).

A good example that always manages to frustrate me is watching someone attempt to select an area in Excel with the mouse. They click the top left cell (usually) with no problem and then shoot around the screen, back and forth, up and down, trying to get to the exact cell in the bottom right hand corner without overshooting when Excel accelerates. Using the keyboard, they would be there in a second or less.

I (almost) guarantee that if you try it for a week or two, and persevere through the initial learning period you will never go back to using that mouse thing again, and you'll save some armache / OOUS symptoms!!

Hope that helps,

David.

[David_Jones]

As an aside, and apologies for asking a sub-question, but my PC does exhibit one odd behaviour in this area.

Whenever I turn on or off Mouse-Keys by pressing the NumLock key, my PC makes a beep despite the volume control being set to mute on the master slide.

Does anyone know how to stop that beep??

Thanks,

David.

[glc]

Accessibility options - general - notification - make a sound when turning feature on or off - uncheck it. Thats the system speaker beeping at you, not the sound card.

[FZWG]

Thank you very much for the extra guidance.