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VR tips

Posted: Mar 13, 2013

Does anybody have any ideas on how to improve my speed with VR? It's supposed to be so terrible to take your hands off the keys, but we have to do that constantly to hit the arrow key, the control key, the delete key, etc.-- then when we need to make a correction, we have to put them back on, and I always put them back on in the wrong place. It seems as if we need two extra hands. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

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VR tips - anon

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It has taken me several years, but I have gradually added to my Instant (or whatever program you use) to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible. I DO keep the cursor connected and do not use the ctrl + arrow key to follow. I have made shorts to reconnect the voice to the cursor, I named mine jj which is easy to use and not difficult using the ctrl or shift keys most programs utilize. I have shorts to delete 1 word, delete 2 words, delete 3 words. I also have shorts to change comma to period and cap the next letter, delete a period and add a comma, etc. Just pay attention to what tasks you are doing over and over that cause you to take your hands off the home keys, and add commands to your program that will simplify that. It took me a while, but I am now almost as efficient as I was straight typing (of course a great deal depends on how many edits you need to make, on terrible VR I admit that I delete it and type it)

Home Keys - see msg

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Your "home" keys each have a little bump on the lower part of the key; that is, the F and the J. Just feel with your index fingers. Once you get used to it, it will be second nature.

different keyboard - speedy

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I use a Kinesis keyboard. It is pricy but worth it. Had mine for years now and found out just how valuable it is when we went to SR. All the keys to the right like Delete, Home, End, and even backspace, control, alt, space bar, page up, page down, and enter are done with your thumbs on this keyboard. And I have programmed a lot of macros into Instant Text, my expander program too.

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