Thanks for the confirmation. I had a suspicion it would not work, but figured I'd ask just to be sure before I tried to tell them how to do it. Neither the TVI nor the student is great with computers, and the TVI is not a fan of Macs anyway. On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello Alex, > > Hotspots are very quirky things to work with. The font palette is not a pop > up but a separate window so hotspots wouldn't work anyway. The quickest way > to get around the fonts palette is to jump from table to table with VO-Cmd-t. > Also, you can use the first few letters of a font name to find the one you > want quickly. > > A good use of hotspots in earlier versions of Pages is on the Paragraph > styles table in the Styles drawer. You can find out the current style by > pressing VO-Cmd-hotspot number. I really miss this in the new Pages. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 28 Mar 2014, at 16:35, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have never once used hotspots, but I know the theory. My question is: do >> they work in popups? A TVI friend of mine is working with a student on >> pages, under OS10.6.8. They are trying to find a quick way to manually enter >> the font number and choose the type; I told them how to bring up the font >> dialog with cmd-t, but once there you have to go through a bunch of options. >> I am wondering about setting a hotspot on the font size text field. Will >> this work consistently, eventually disappear or move, or just not work at >> all? Thanks. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
