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been saved, your current document will be saved automatically when you create a new one, and a blank
document will be opened.
To open a document while editing another one, access the context menu by pressing Space with M,
select File functions, and select the option Open additional document. You can also use the command
Backspace with O to open an additional document. If your current document has not previously been
saved, you will be prompted to do so before opening a new document. If it has already been saved, your
current document will be saved automatically when you open a new one. Select the document you wish
to open from the list presented to you, and the new document will open.
6.8.2 Switching between documents
To switch between two or more previously opened documents, access the context menu by pressing
Space with M, select File functions, and select the option Switch documents. You can also use the
command Space with Dots 1-2-5-6 to switch documents. If your current document has not previously
been saved, you will be prompted to do so before switching documents. If it has already been saved,
your current document will be saved automatically when you switch to another one. Select the
document you wish to switch to from the list presented to you, and the new document will open. A
message will inform you of the name of the document you have switched to. When switching from a
document to another, the cursor will be at the last location in your document.
For improved performance, turning on read-only mode on documents which you are not editing, will
avoid needing to save the document every time it is switched from. There is no limit to the number of
documents that can be open at a time, keeping in mind that the larger the documents and more
documents that are open will reduce performance.
6.9 Generating Visual Preview
You may hear at times that the visual output of the KeyWord screen has black boxes or shapes on it that
do not always make sense to a sighted viewer. This is because KeyWord is a Word Processor designed
specifically for the Braille user. These black boxes and shapes are renderings of Braille format markers
which cannot be translated into a visual representation.
There may be times when you need to show a sighted teacher or colleague a document you have
worked on with the final formatting.
When this situation occurs, you can use the “Generate Preview option, which generates a temporary
PDF version of your document and displays it on the screen. When a document is in preview mode, you
can switch to Explore by Touch mode to allow the user to pan and magnify the document.
To generate the preview of a document, simply type ENTER with V in an opened document, or type
SPACE with M, then select and activate File functions, Print to PDF.
To close the preview, press SPACE with E.