I spent some time today trying to figure out the styles procedures in Pages. After reading the help files extensively, I tried to locate the context menu for the styles in the paragraph styles table of the styles popup and here's what I found.
by setting VO to speak text under the mouse with a short delay, I routed the mouse to the style button, then slowly moved the mouse right until I found "menu". that's the context menu and clicking it brings up the menu where I could rename, delete, update the style etc and also assign shortcuts. It's tricky though, I found that hiding all other apps first helps. Also, routing the mouse the something like the title style, and then slowly dragging down, I could find each style in the style list, and then drag right from the style I wanted. Sometimes I had to go a long way right and even went off the window, then slowly back left I would hear "popup" and then a little further left I'd find the menu button. It appears that, visually speaking, it is a list with the style name and an arrow/submenu symbol at the far right of the menu item. so dragging exactly straight is necessary so as not to slip down or up onto another styles menu button. If in doubt, I simply moved left until I heard the style name, then straight right again onto the associated menu button. with some practice I was able to reliably find the context menu button for any style and assign a shortcut (F1 thru F8). For all I know, this is old hat to all you Pages veterans, but it's a discovery for me. I also found how jumping to the formatter will deselect any text in the body area unless you turn off cursor tracking. I don't know the full significance and implications of this yet, but I have at least discovered the deselecting problem and can account for it. Does anyone care to elaborate on any of this stuff for a new Pages user, and potential convert from MS Word? Thanks, BTW: I have a 1 hour Pages one to one training session coming up in a few weeks and I'm going to put that Apple store trainer through his paces. in particular, I going to grill him on working the whole styles question. I have found that it is a big help to have a pair of eyes supposedly well-versed in the software looking on and commenting as I try to work this thing. -- 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.
