2	Kurzweil 1000 Menus and Dialog Boxes
This chapter contains the following topics:
The Menu System.
Types of Menu Items.
Dialog Boxes.
Lists in Dialogs.
Text Boxes in Dialogs.
Grid Views in Dialogs.
The Menu System 
You can access all of the Kurzweil 1000 features and settings from menus by using a standard keyboard. The menu system provides auditory feedback. 
Note: You can also access many Kurzweil 1000 commands from the keypad. For detailed information, you can either download the document, Using the Keypad to Access Kurzweil 1000, from the Kurzweil Educational Systems website—www.kurzweiledu.com—or refer to Appendix E, Using the Keypad to Access Kurzweil 1000 in the Online Manual.
Kurzweil 1000 Menus
As in all Windows-based systems, Kurzweil 1000 displays a menu bar at the top of the Kurzweil 1000 application window.
When you first start Kurzweil 1000, there are seven menus laid out in the following order from left to right:
File, Folder, Scan, Settings, Tools, Online, and Help.
When you open a document, several additional menus appear. The order from left to right is as follows:
File, Edit, Folder, Scan, Read, Navigation, Settings, Tools, Online, Window, and Help.
Finding Your Way Around the Menus
To access the menu bar, press the ALT key. (The F10 key also performs this function, however, you’ll find that ALT is the more convenient of the two.)
To move from menu to menu, use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys. As you reach each menu, you’ll hear its name. 
To obtain a list of a menu’s items, use either the DOWN ARROW or the ENTER key when you reach the desired menu name.
To access the individual menu items, press the UP and DOWN ARROW keys until you hear the desired name.
To select a menu item, press the ENTER key when you hear its name.
To hear a menu item name spelled aloud, press CONTROL+L or CONTROL+SHIFT+L.
To close the current menu and go to the previous level in the menu system, press the ESCAPE key. For example, if you open the File menu and then choose Launch, the system announces the first item in the Launch submenu, which is Add. If you then press ESCAPE, it takes you back to the Launch menu item. Pressing ESCAPE again takes you back to the File menu. 
To leave the menu system from any level within it, press the ALT or F10 key.
Finding Your Way Around Dialog Boxes
Some menu items open dialog boxes. These are special screens that present a feature’s options, also called "controls" throughout Kurzweil 1000. You know that a menu item has a dialog box when the system says, “Opens a dialog.”
You make selections and choose settings in dialogs by using lists and commands, and by entering text. 
To move forward through the options press the TAB key. The SHIFT+TAB key combination takes you backward through the options. The system announces the name of the control and its current setting as it reaches each one.
To get Help about the specific option at your cursor position, press the F1 key.
To accept changes you’ve made and close the dialog, press the ENTER key. To cancel changes and close the dialog press ESCAPE.
To accept changes you’ve made but leave the dialog open, press ALT+ENTER.
Types of Menu Items
There are three types of menu items:
•	Menu items that are commands.
Selecting one of these items makes the Kurzweil 1000 perform a function like scanning a document or initiating reading. For example, choosing Start New Scan from the Scan menu causes the system to scan a page on the scanner.
•	Menu items that open a submenu.
For example, the Launch item on the File menu has its own submenu.
To access a menu item, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key. If a menu item has a submenu, Kurzweil 1000 tells you so. To access the submenu, press the RIGHT ARROW key. Then use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to go through the items on the submenu. To select a menu item, press the ENTER key.
You can also use mnemonics to access submenu items.
•	Menu items that open dialogs. 
Recall that a dialog box is a special screen that lets you make selections, choose settings using lists and command buttons, and enter text. If a menu item lets you access a dialog, you’ll hear the words, “Opens a dialog.”
Dialog Boxes 
Dialog boxes contain options, also known as "controls," that are presented in a number of ways: as command buttons, regular lists, checkbox lists, tree lists, text boxes, combo boxes, or grids. For example, when you choose Search for Books from the Online menu, you get a dialog that contains Combo boxes that let you type text as well as select from a list, Check boxes that let you activate or deactivate an option, and command buttons that allow you to perform an action. 
Moving Among Dialog Controls
There are a few ways to move among the controls in a dialog:
•	Use the TAB key to move forward through the controls, or SHIFT+TAB to move backward.
•	Each control in a dialog has a mnemonic letter, just as each menu item does. Press ALT and the mnemonic for a control to go to that control. In the Settings tab page, you can press just the mnemonic without pressing ALT.
•	In most dialogs, the last two buttons are OK and Cancel. OK accepts all of the changes you’ve made and closes the dialog. Cancel closes the dialog without accepting your changes. In most cases, pressing ENTER on the keyboard is the same as activating the OK button, and pressing ESCAPE is the same as activating Cancel.
	Many dialogs also contain an Apply button, which is located after the Cancel button. Apply directs Kurzweil 1000 to implement any changes you specified, but to leave the dialog open. Pressing ALT+ENTER activates the Apply button.
Getting Help in Dialogs
To get Help in dialogs, press F1. When you press F1 the first time, you get specific information about the current control. Press F1 again to get general information about the type of control.
Using Command Buttons
A command button performs a specified function.To activate a command, press the TAB key until you hear the button name, then press ENTER. 
Lists in Dialogs
Lists contain one or more items. In some lists, those items are sorted alphabetically, in others they are not. 
List Navigation 
To cycle through the list, use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys. 
To go to the first list item whose name begins with a desired letter, type the first letter of the item.
To move through all the items that begin with a desired letter, tap that letter repeatedly.
To go to the first item in a list, press the HOME key.
To go to the last item in a list, press the END key.
To move through the list one screen at a time, use the PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN key.
To hear the current list item, press F7. This sometimes provides additional information about the item.
To hear the current list item spelled aloud, press CONTROL+L.
To hear the current list item spelled aloud using a word alphabet (alpha, bravo, and so on), press CONTROL+SHIFT+L.
List Views
A list view is almost exactly like a standard list, except that you may be able to select more than one item, and you can get to a particular item by typing. 
To read down a list, press the F5 key. Press any key to stop.
To move through the list view, use the list navigation tips.
To select more than one item, use CONTROL and the UP or DOWN ARROW to move from one item to another, and the SPACEBAR to add or remove an item from the selection. 
To add a contiguous block of items to a selection, press the SHIFT key and an arrow key. 
To go to an item, type its name. Suppose you are editing pronunciation changes, for example, you could find the pronunciation change for the word "Kurzweil" by typing in the letters K, then U, then R, until the appropriate word is selected.
To hear the items that are currently selected, press CONTROL+Y.
Checkbox Lists
It is possible for list views to contain a check box for each item in the list. When this occurs, selection is done differently. You can get to an item in the same manner as in any list box. Kurzweil 1000 tells you if the box is "checked," selected, or "unchecked," not selected.
To check or uncheck an item press the SPACEBAR. Unlike a standard list view, moving away from an item does not automatically deselect it. 
There are very few instances of check boxes in Kurzweil 1000, but one example is the Languages list in the Recognition Settings.
Tree View Lists
A tree view is hierarchical, presenting multiple levels of list items. Two prime places in Kurzweil 1000 where you’ll find tree views are in the File Open and Folder Change dialogs, and in the Bookmarks dialog.
To read down through the hierarchy of a tree view list, press the F5 key. Press any key to stop.
To move from one item to another in the same level, use the UP or DOWN ARROW.
To go to the level down, use the RIGHT ARROW. 
To go back to the level above, use the LEFT ARROW.
To go to the first item at the same level, use HOME.
To go to the last item at the same level, use END.
To go to the first item in the tree view, use CONTROL+HOME.
To go to the last item in the tree view, use CONTROL+END.
To select an item, stop pressing the key when you hear the desired name.
Searching Lists in Dialogs
The following dialog boxes provide a search function in their list boxes: Ranked Spelling, Find and Open, Online Search (for books, magazines, and the Classic Literature CD), and all Kurzweil 1000 File dialogs.
To Search a list:
1.	In a list that supports searches, press CONTROL+F. 
A Find dialog opens with the cursor in the entry text box. 
2.	Type in a word or partial word, then press ENTER to search the list. Kurzweil 1000 reads the first item it finds.
3.	Press F3 to search forward in the list for another match, and SHIFT+F3 to search backwards.
Text Boxes in Dialogs
Text boxes let you type and edit characters. In text boxes, you can do the following:
To select text, hold down the SHIFT key on the keyboard and use the arrow keys to move over the characters you want to select. 
To spell the selected text, or the current word if no text is selected, press CONTROL+L.
To spell text mnemonically, press CONTROL+SHIFT+L.
To hear the contents of the text box, press F7.
To move forward or backward by one character, press the RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW, respectively.
To move to the end or beginning of a text box, press the END or HOME key, respectively.
To delete the character to the left or right of the cursor, use the BACKSPACE key and the DELETE key, respectively.
To hear the last word in a text box, press CONTROL+END.
For text boxes that use numeric values, like speech speed and speech volume, you can type a number or use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys to make the current value larger or smaller, respectively. To change a numeric value by a larger amount, press SHIFT and the UP or DOWN ARROW.
Some text boxes are read only, and are not editable.
Combo Boxes
Combo boxes are text boxes combined with a list to give you two ways to select an option. Like a text box, you can type and edit characters. Like a list, you can use the UP/DOWN ARROWS.
Grid Views in Dialogs
Grids show tables of data. Like all tables, data is organized in rows and columns. The Explore Layout dialog is an example of a grid.
•	To move from row to row, use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys. 
•	To place your cursor in the left-most or the right-most column of the current row, press the HOME or END key, respectively.
•	To go to the first or last cell in the table, CONTROL+HOME or CONTROL+END, respectively.
•	To hear the contents of the current cell, press F7. 
•	To hear the contents of the first cell in the current row, press SHIFT+F7.