To change the level of verbosity, press Narrator + V or Narrator + Shift + V until you hear the level of detail that you want. Narrator provides different levels of detail about controls and the characteristics of text, known as verbosity. To read the previous paragraph, press Narrator + Ctrl + J. To read the next paragraph, press Narrator + Ctrl + L. To read the current paragraph, press Narrator + Ctrl + K. To read the previous page, press Narrator + Ctrl + U. To read the next page, press Narrator + Ctrl + O. To read the current page, press Narrator + Ctrl + I. To read the previous character, press Narrator + M. To read the next character, press Narrator + Period (.). To read the current character, press Narrator + Comma (,). When you press the command twice in a row, Narrator will read the character phonetically. To read the previous word, press Narrator + J or Narrator + Ctrl + Left arrow key. To read the next word, press Narrator + L or Narrator + Ctrl + Right arrow key. To read the current word, press Narrator + K or Narrator + Ctrl + 5 (numeric keypad). When you press either command twice in a row, Narrator will spell the word. To read the previous sentence, press Narrator + Ctrl + M. To read the current sentence, press Narrator + Ctrl + Comma (,). To read the next sentence, press Narrator + Ctrl + Period (.). To read the current line, press Narrator + I or Narrator + Up arrow key. To read text from the beginning to where your cursor is, press Narrator + Shift + J or Narrator + Alt + Home.

To start reading a document from the beginning, press Narrator + Ctrl + R or Narrator + Down arrow key. To read from where focus or your cursor is, press Narrator + R.

To read the current item, press Narrator + Tab. Narrator provides ways to read text by page, paragraph, line, sentence, word, and character. To navigate out of the content, just press the Tab key or use an application shortcut. Tip: When reading a web page or an email, Narrator commands will apply to the content of the page or email and not to the browser or application.

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