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Anonymous
2021-02-09T20:28:22+00:00

Hello! I love the read aloud feature, it's one of the best voices out there.
My issue is that the PDF's I read have headers and footers, usually with numbers, so the reader just reads them everytime (which is really annoying), there doesn't seem to be any way to make the reader skip this sections, is there?

Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-09T22:47:43+00:00

    The Microsoft product that does that is Word (read aloud without headers/footers), but in that case I have to open the PDF using word (sometimes this messes up the content), and I have like 70 documents, so I have to do all those steps (I don't want word to be the default for PDF's, so I have to select - open with, etc) in all those documents, besides, the voice is better on edge and is easier for me so I don't have to manually download each document...long story short, I don't think the solution I need is available, so I'll just leave it as a suggestion for future updates. I'm sure that if it's possible to do it with Word it could be made with Edge.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-09T22:04:32+00:00

    What I want is to hit Play so it starts reading the content of the PDF while skipping the header / footer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-09T22:41:02+00:00

    Yeah, but I would have to do that for each and every single page in a 200 page document, which is impractical. 

    I would like to listen to the whole document without stopping and without the headers/footers.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-09T21:58:13+00:00

    CTRL + Alt + Space

    Start reading aloud

    CTRL + Space

    Play or pause Read aloud

    CTRL + Left Arrow

    Jump to the beginning of the previous paragraph

    CTRL + Right Arrow

    Proceed to the beginning of the next paragraph

    Alt + Left Arrow

    Decrease reading speed

    Alt + Right arrow

    Increase reading speed

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-02-09T21:52:50+00:00

    Hello ChangeAlt, My Name is Cristian I am an Independent Advisor and Windows Specialist.

    There are some shortcuts:

    Caps Lock + H

    Read document

    Caps Lock + U

    Read the next page

    Caps Lock + Ctrl + U

    Read the current page

    Caps Lock + Shift + U

    Read the previous page

    Caps Lock + I

    Read the next paragraph

    Caps Lock + Ctrl + I

    Read the current paragraph

    Caps Lock + Shift + I

    Read previous paragraph

    Caps Lock + O

    Read next line

    Caps Lock + Ctrl + O

    Read current line

    Caps Lock + Shift + O

    Read previous line

    Caps Lock + P

    Read next word

    Caps Lock + Ctrl + P

    Read current word

    Caps Lock + Shift + P

    Read previous word

    Caps Lock + Opening bracket

    Read next character

    Caps Lock + Ctrl + Opening bracket

    Read current character

    Caps Lock + Shift + Opening bracket

    Read previous character

    Caps Lock + J

    Go to next title

    Caps Lock + Shift + J

    Go to previous title

    Caps Lock + K

    Go to the next table

    Caps Lock + Shift + K

    Go to the previous table

    I hope this information will be useful. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and it will be a pleasure to help you.

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