Hi Linda, I'll answer your question about how to move, edit, and delete bookmarks by adding to the description Chris gave of using Command-Option-B to "Show All Bookmarks". This command takes you to a Safari page that is specifically for managing your bookmarks. It is the first option when you arrow down in the Bookmarks menu on the Safari menu bar, where it is listed with its keyboard shortcut. By contrast, when you arrow down to the Bookmarks Bar in that same menu, you're selecting individual bookmarks that are stored in the Bookmarks Bar instead of navigating to a page where you can manage all your bookmarks.
The "Show All Bookmarks" page is laid out in two tables and a search field, much as in iTunes, the Finder, and many other applications. Navigating between the tables and search field is simple if you have hidden your bookmarks bar, toolbar, and tab bar -- just go to the "View" menu on your Safari menu bar (VO-M then press "V" and arrow down) and select any items that say "Hide" in the first three or four entries. You can also use shortcuts to toggle between show and hide your bookmarks bar (Command-Shift-B) and toolbar (Command-Shift-Backslash on an English language keyboard). Now, if you have interacted with the scroll area, use the tab key to move through the "Show All Bookmarks" page. Interact with a table and VO-Down arrow to explore the contents. One table will be a collection of items like "History", "Bookmarks Bar", "Bookmarks Menu", "All RSS Feeds", and any folders of bookmarks that you create to organize your bookmarks (e.g., with Command-Shift-N to add a folder, or VO-Down arrow and press the "New Collections" button with VO-Space). Once you have selected/highlighted an item in the collections table, you can tab to the second table to examine its contents. (This is like selecting a folder in a Finder sidebar, a mailbox in Mail, or a library in the sources table of iTunes, and then navigating to table list view, or messages table, or songs table that details the items of your selection. The second table used to be called the outline view in Tiger.) For example, select "Bookmarks Bar", then tab to the table that lists bookmark names and address URLs. Delete entries with your delete key. You can re-order the bookmarks using copy, paste, and delete, along with your arrow keys. You can also use the contextual menu for each field to rename entries and perform other actions. This can include things like pasting in a java script action into the address field. (If you've ever visited a page, such as Google Translation Tools page, where they tell you that you can get 1-click translation by dragging a button to your browser toolbar, all you need to do is navigate to the button, which is a link, and use the context menu to copy the link. Then take an existing bookmark, paste the script contents of the link into the address field, and rename the bookmark.) The bookmarks bar is only one entry in the table of your bookmark collections, and is meant to be used for your most frequently accessed web sites. You'll probably want to use folders for your other bookmark collections, and also create subfolders (either with Command-Shift-N within the second table, or by using VO-Down Arrow from the table and pressing the "New Folders" button with VO-Space). I'll just add, for anyone who has an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, and who also syncs their Safari Bookmarks through MobileMe, that reordering bookmarks can be done fairly easily on those devices. Double tap the bookmarks button, then double tap the "Edit" button. For each entry under your bookmarks collection you'll first have a delete switch, then, if you touch or flick right, the name of the entry, and finally, if you either flick right or touch the right edge of the screen, you'll hear "reorder, dragable; double tap and hold, then move to desired location". If you double tap and keep your finger pressed to the screen after the second tap, then drag the entry up or down, you'll first hear the burbly noise that your pass-through gesture (double tap and hold) has been accepted, and then you'll hear a "plink" noise for each entry you've moved past. Then double tap the "Done" button to get out of editing mode. If you want to reorder individual bookmarks in the bookmarks bar, you'll have to first double tap the "Bookmarks Bar" folder before double tapping the "Edit" button so that you reorder bookmarks rather than collections of bookmarks. You can read more details about working with the "Show All Bookmarks" page in the mail archive of my post: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg16516.html (Re: a couple of Safari questions--bookmarks top sites and tool bars) This post includes a description of using the search field and links to another (older) post outlining how bookmarks work, including how to transfer them. For any of the Mail Archive linked posts, you can use the Control-N access key shortcut to read the next post in the thread (or Control-P to read the previous post). HTH Cheers, Esther On May 20, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Linda Adams wrote: Hi, Chris, Thanks, actually, I had saved a copy of your entire message. I get to the bookmark bar a different way, opening Safari, using VO-m arrow over to bookmarks, select and arrow to the bookmark bar from there. Does the method of getting to the list I'm working with make a difference? It was the last 3 steps that have me stumped. To highlight a bookmark do I interact with it? In addition to the other places I checked, I also checked the VO Help menu and found nothing about highlighting Once I learn how to highlight the bookmark, I also need the way to "cut". I did find information that said "command V" is used to paste. I'm also trying to find out how to delete bookmarks. Does it need to be highlighted first and then the delete key would do the trick but I'm back where I started- how do I highlight the bookmark? thanks again for your assistance, Linda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. 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