Technologies Humanware Inc. APBT320 Manuel D’Utilisation

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Delete to end of paragraph - 

Press CONTROL with 8. 

KeySoft prompts you to make sure that you really mean to delete such a significant amount of text. 
If you press Y, all text will be deleted from the cursor position to the end of the current paragraph. 
The cursor remains in the same position. 

Delete to end of document - 

Press CONTROL with D. 

KeySoft prompts you to make sure that you really mean to delete such a significant amount of text. 
If you press Y, all text will be deleted from the cursor position to the end of the document. The 
cursor remains in the same position. 

There is no specific command to delete all text from a document, but this can easily be done by 
pressing READ with T to move to the top of the document and then pressing CONTROL with D. 

Note that the keys used to delete a particular section of text correspond to the commands for reading 
the same section of text except that the BACKSPACE key is used in place of the SPACE key. 

In summary, the full set of delete commands is: 

Delete current character, 

CONTROL with COMMA, or DELETE; 

Delete previous character 

BACKSPACE; 

Delete current word, 

CONTROL with K; 

Delete previous word, 

CONTROL with J; 

Delete to end of sentence, 

CONTROL with I; 

Delete to end of paragraph, 

CONTROL with 8; 

Delete to end of document, 

In case it is not obvious, if you press one wrong key while you are typing, you will want to delete 
the character to the left of the cursor position, not the blank which is currently under the cursor. For 
this reason you should use BACKSPACE if you have just made a single typing mistake. Use 
BACKSPACE also to correct mistakes during entry of file names, search strings, etc. 

For the same reason, if you realize that the word you have just typed is wrong when KeySoft echoes 
it, use the delete-previous-word command to remove it. 

On reading your document again, you may find a word misspelled. When using speech it is often 
simpler to delete the word and retype it correctly, followed by a single space, rather than delete one 
or two characters and correct on a letter by letter basis.