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All right, so first of all, yeah, I know I'm a day late, but I was going to try to say one of those things a dollar shorter day late. Anyways, if interested in producing Jaws content or content to help people better understand Windows Slash using screen readers with Windows, definitely reach out to us feedback show. I'd love to get you on mainly so I don't have to keep producing the content. Really appreciate those who have submitted content. Marcy and Pete. They have brought in the Jaws content and shared that with you. But today I want to give you a brief rundown of styling with Microsoft Word and how I'm using both Jaws keystrokes, my own custom keystrokes. What I'm going to change one of them to probably and how you can learn about the styling in a document. Now up until my recent job, I had zero interest in styling a document. To be honest with you, I did not know why I would need this. I mean, I knew why, but I just didn't really care. To be frank, I used basic styling like headings, and I didn't really, really explore modifying headings to give them an alternate appearance. I just went with the default for Microsoft Word. Well, with ACB Community we have some large print styling that we want to stick with and briefly it's black on white text in Arial font size 18 for the normal text, Dodger Blue for links and size 20 for heading level 3 and size 1022 font for heading level 2. Now how can I get these styles to apply the way that I want them to? A couple of ways. Number one, a keystroke Control Shift ALT S will put you in the list of styles, and if you have text highlighted with a style applied to it, then Control Shift ALT S will bring that style right up and you can do what we'll talk about in a moment. If for some reason you don't have that text styled or it didn't bring up the styling that you needed to modify, type in the edit field the name of the style heading, level 2 hyperlink, normal title, etc. And when you find that, use Shift F10 to open the context menu for that specific style down arrow to modify and hit Enter and make all of the modifications you need for that style before you hit ok. So don't hit OK yet before you hit ok. If all of your documents are going to need to use the same style. For example, all of your documents heading level 2 need to be 22 point font black on white shift tab twice past the OK button and it'll say apply to this document only, down arrow once and hit enter to be able to apply to all documents moving forward. And you may need to tab to okay and hit enter to apply that specific styling to that document and all documents moving forward. Next up, if you need to change the styling of text for example, what's happened to me in the past and I didn't know this keystroke and now I'm glad I do is I might get text that's a heading that's left over from when I hit enter at the end of a line or at the beginning of a line and I want to change that text back to normal styling again. This is using jaws. I don't know if this is a word keystroke or a jaws keystroke, but Control Shift S for styles that's Control Shift s will bring you into a list of styles that you can apply to selected text. So select your text that you want to change the style of. Press Control Shift s, type in the name of the style so nor for normal or HEA for your headings down arrow to highlight the style that you want and then tab to the Apply or Apply again button and hit space or enter. This will then apply the style to the text that you are manipulating. Now I want to apply the hyperlink style to links in emails that I send so it gets that Dodger blue hue to it and has a size 18 point font. All the time I was selecting links and then pressing Control Shift s and then typing in hyper and then tabbing to apply and hit enter. That's a lot of typing, hitting, pressing blah blah blah. I wanted to modify that to simplify it and I went to my friend chatgpt and I said hey ChatGPT, is there a way to apply a style with a shortcut key that I can define in order to always apply that style moving forward? And guess what? There is. So if you do Control Shift alt s, this will bring you back into the style dialog box. Type in the name of the style that you want to modify, in this case hyperlink and then make sure that that is highlighted. Press shift F10 and go down to modify. Remember we've already been here. Shift tab to the cancel and then Shift tab again to OK and then Shift tab one more time to format button and press the space bar Use your arrow keys to navigate to shortcut key and press Enter or space and then enter the shortcut key. Right now I've entered Control Shift Alt H. I'm going to change that and the reason why is I'm down arrowing quite regularly, so I think I'm going to change it to and then when I get to the link I select it and then I have to move my right hand over to the H and I'm all about efficiency. So what I think I'm going to do is change that shortcut key to Control Shift Alt and a key on the right side of the keyboard, maybe Windows or I don't want to do that, but slash might be a good key because then I'm able to do this without having to move my hands to the other side of the keyboard. So that's a little bit about styling in Microsoft Word and using JAWS to be more efficient. Oh, quick note, get Leasi if you don't have Leasi yet, get it. I'm going to be adding a page to PayOne Media in the very near future where you can purchase Leesi or you can go and get it from Brian's website@leaseicentral.org I think, or harchenhartg.e n.org because Leci gave me a feature that I really wanted forever and that is Sticky Quick Key navigation. So if you alt tab out of a Microsoft document to get contents from somewhere else and then you alt tab back in by default you have to hit jaws key z in order to re enable Quick key navigation. To navigate your document by headings with leci, tap leci key and then jaws key z and that'll keep sticky navigation on. So that means that if you turn your navigation on by using jaws key z, then when you alt tab out of a document and then alt tab back in, wait a half a second you'll hear a little beep if you have sounds enabled and then you can use H to jump to your headings without having to turn Quick Key navigation back on. Hope you found that to be useful. For more amazing content like this, head on over to Unmute show and have yourself a beautiful rest of your Saturday, not Friday. If you're interested in producing content that helps people be more efficient and productive in Windows using a screen reader, you don't have to stick with Jaws because I know there's a lot of NVDA users out there and have quick tips like these. Send me an email feedbackmute show have a beautiful.