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There is a lot to look forward to within Leasey over the next few weeks.

1. Leasey Word has received a lot of attention. A. High quality voice dictation. Dictate documents, letters, anything you wish into Leasey Word. If necessary, JAWS can echo the text back as you do so. Not only can you dictate into the application and receive an exceptionally high level of voice recognition, but you can use some voice commands to. Examples would be:

"Leasey Text" followed by its name, so as to recreate a text passage previously stored. "Leasey Clip 1 through to 12", to reproduce one of the 12 Leasey Clips. "Leasey Insert before and Insert after", to place the cursor where you need it to be. "Leasey Select", followed by text you wish to select. A small number of commands to reproduce Markdown signs are also included for convenience. B. Read Only Mode. This was a customer requested feature. Press a keystroke to bring an extremely lengthy document into Read Only mode for faster navigation. Bookmarks and document notes are still available. C. Automatic numbering in text including Markdown. When creating numbered lists, pressing Enter can cause Leasey to insert the next numbered item for you automatically. D. Highlighting Text. If a lecturer, tutor, student or colleague has marked important passages in a Word document for example, you can easily find such passages through a list or using quick navigation keys. You can also highlight text yourself so that passages can be visually identified. As you navigate the document, JAWS speaks the presence of visually highlighted text. 2. Leasey Media Centre. You can automatically create chapter marks in audio files stored on the computer, not just podcasts. Ideal if you have a large MP3 file requiring section divisions. Leasey can analyse the file and create the chapter marks for you. 3. ChatGPT. The highly accessible ChatGPT interface has been completely re-designed. A. JAWS no longer uses the results viewer to display the text. We have our own interface to render it, including headings, tables, etc. B. You do not have to dismiss the viewer when you start the next interaction. You can continue to see all of the conversation as it evolves. If you do want to see just one element of it, find it from the new list box, press Enter, and there it is. C. The conversation can easily be exported to a text file or Word document. D. You can quickly read the most recent 10 messages with keystrokes, similar to how we work with WhatsApp. E. We are now using ChatGPT6. All the previous functions still exist, such as our library of pre-prepared prompts in ChatGPT Tools and the ability to save and load conversations.

Those are just some of the new features to come. Enjoy! #LeaseyLove

A Leasey update is available. Changes. Leasey Media Centre. When you search for a podcast and subscribe to one of them, focus now returns back to the list of search results. Leasey Points. Leasey Points are now more robust in terms of what is stored. Rather than relying on text, they now capture other components in order that the correct item is located. Leasey Social. From a composition dialog such as when creating a new post, pressing F7 or invoking the Spell Check button has JAWS scripting applied to avoid over-talking and to ensure that the incorrectly spelled word is spoken first, then the first suggestion. The User Profile screen now contains a button to follow and unfollow the user. Enhancements have been made to the Profile dialog from the Notifications area to better detect the users favouriting the post. The Profile dialog now contains whether you are following the user and vice-versa. Specific Leasey Context Sensitive Help was added for Lists Manager, List Members, list editing, Filters Manager, local filter editing, and server filter editing. It has also been enhanced in some other areas. When opening a post by pressing Enter, and you Tab to the Post Information field, where possible we now let you know the user details of who has favourited or boosted a post. If you are reading a post and want to add someone from that post to one of your lists, use Add User from Post to List. Using this command makes the process easy and quick. Step 1. Set focus to a post from a user you wish to add to a list. Step 2. Press Control+Alt+L. Step 3. Leasey Social first shows a list of users found in the focused post. This can include the author, the person who boosted the post, the person who favourited the post in a notification, quoted authors and mentioned users. Step 4. Use Up or Down Arrow to choose the user and press Enter. Step 5. Leasey Social then shows your Mastodon lists. Step 6. Use Up or Down Arrow to choose the list and press Enter. Step 7. The selected account is added to the selected list. Mastodon normally requires that you follow an account before it can be added to a list. If you are not following the account, Leasey Social tells you. Leasey Word. Enhanced the ability to move by heading in ePub files. The heading structure in such files varies wildly as to whether they have true heading markup. If there are no true headings, based upon the file structure Leasey tries to infer what should be a heading. Leasey Word can now move through headings in Word documents with the heading movement keystrokes such as H and Shift+H. When exporting Markdown to Word, Leasey now preserves blank lines. Unsaved documents that look like Markdown, or have been marked as Markdown during the current writing session, now preview as rendered Markdown without needing to save as .md first. Introduced Writing Tool shortcut keys as follows. Control+Alt+K inserts or wraps a link. Control+Alt+1 inserts or wraps a Heading 1. Control+Alt+2 inserts or wraps a Heading 2. This sequence is true through to heading 6. Control+Alt+T inserts a table. Control+Alt+B inserts or wraps a bulleted list. Control+Alt+N inserts or wraps a numbered list. Control+Alt+Q inserts or wraps a block quote. Control+Alt+I inserts an image. Control+Alt+H inserts a horizontal rule. If the current document is HTML, Leasey Word creates HTML. If the current document is Markdown, Leasey Word creates Markdown. If the document has not been saved yet, or if Leasey Word cannot tell which format you want, it asks you to choose HTML or Markdown. That choice is remembered for the current open document. Leasey Word can now detect real tables in modern Word documents. This applies to DOCX and DOCM files. When you move into a Word table with Up Arrow or Down Arrow, JAWS announces: Entering table When you move out of the table, JAWS announces: Out of table When the cursor is inside a Word table, you can use table movement commands. If you press Insert+F1 or Caps Lock+F1 while the cursor is inside a Word table, Context Sensitive Help reports the table size, the current row and column, and the table movement commands. Control+Alt+Right Arrow moves to the next cell in the row. Control+Alt+Left Arrow moves to the previous cell in the row. Control+Alt+Down Arrow moves to the cell below. Control+Alt+Up Arrow moves to the cell above. Control+Alt+Home moves to the first cell in the table. Control+Alt+End moves to the last cell in the table. Alt+Home moves to the first cell in the current row. Alt+End moves to the last cell in the current row. When moving by table cell, JAWS announces the cell text and the row or column position where appropriate. For example, if you are in a table containing first names and last names, Control+Alt+Down Arrow can move from the column heading First Name to the name beneath it. If there is no cell in the direction you are moving, JAWS says: No more cells or: No more rows Quick Navigation can also help you find tables. Press Insert+Z or JAWS Key+Z to turn Quick Navigation on. Press T to move to the next table. Press Shift+T to move to the previous table. After you have found the table, you can use the table movement commands described above. Leasey File Manager. When copying large folders, a Windows progress bar is available to denote the percentage value of the copying process. Pressing JAWS Key+T to read the window title also gives this information.

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