Hello Phil, Selecting with Option-Shift-Up Arrow still isn't working for me, but I can select using VO-Return and navigating up the way. It still doesn't work down the way. Strange.
Cheers, Anne On 18 May 2014, at 16:39, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a relatively new user of Pages, I have encountered the bug wherein it is > not possible to select text that spans page boundaries. I sent feedback to > Apple through the menu option. However, while it is not possible to select > text across page boundaries in a forward direction, I have found that it can > be done moving backwards through the document. > So, While one cannot select the entire document from the beginning of the doc > and then pressing shift command down arrow (select to end of file), one can > select the entire doc from the bottom of the document and pressing shift > command up arrow (select to top of file). > (note: I am not sure that selecting the entire document is subject to the > bug, so the above statement may not apply). > Where this fact comes in most handy is selecting multiple paragraphs, or even > a single paragraph that spans page boundaries. I select these conditions by > moving to the end of the last paragraph to be selected, and then using the > shift option up arrow command to select the desired paragraphs. doing so > selects the paragraphs where trying to select them from the first to the last > will result in the known text selection bug. > I haven't tested this workaround very extensively, so others may want to give > it a more thorough going over. But, it does work well as far as I have > taken it. > > Hope this helps, and I hope I'm not just re-discovering and telling of common > knowledge. > > -- > 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.
