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Let’s look at how to use Central Washington University’s
Portable Textbook reader, or PT Reader, with Word documents.
We will be doing this in three easy steps:
1. Open Firefox.
2. Open a Word Document.
3. Use PT Reader to read the document.
First, locate the Firefox icon on your desktop, and double click on it.
Or, go into your start menu and click on Firefox. This will open up Firefox.
Next, open the Word Document file that you want to have read.
Situate Firefox at the top of your screen and position the Word Document underneath it.
Select the portion of the text that you want read.
You can highlight the portion of the text you want read
by clicking with your mouse, and dragging it across the text.
If you are using a PC, you can also use the keyboard short-cut “Ctrl+A”
to highlight the entire document at once.
Once you have selected the text that you want, copy it to the clipboard.
To do this on a PC, right-click on the selected text. Click “copy.”
You can also use the keyboard short-cut “Ctrl+C” to copy the text.
After you have copied the text, go to the PT Reader tool bar
and click on the “speak selected text” button, which is shaped like a speech balloon.
The text you copied will then be read.
To stop the audio, click the “speak selected text” button again.
This process can be repeated for any document that has selectable text,
including Notebook, Wordpad, and Text Wrangler documents.