Thanks so much for your explanation. Old habits die hard, especially those done almost without thinking. Now it makes complete sense, but I still may have to stick with the windows way as it is so much second nature, even if it is not as intuitive. Smilie! On May 30, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello Kim, > > If you want text insertion to behave as it did on Windows, go to the > VoiceOver Utility, select the Verbosity category and choose the Text pane. > Navigate to "When moving the cursor" and click the pop up button to the > right. Select "Speak text to the right of the cursor". That will solve your > problem. > > However, if you want to do things the Mac way, VO will speak the text that > the cursor has just passed over. So, if you are moving right and VO has just > read the word "and", the insertion point will be after the D of And. If you > are moving left and you hear "and", the insertion point will be before the > "a". I find the Mac way of doing things more intuitive, but then I've never > used Windows. > > Cheers, > > Anne > : > On May 29, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > >> Hi Folks and happy Memorial Day weekend. My question is this. Recently >> switching from the windows platform, while typing in any of the windows word >> processors, the insertion point is always to the left of what ever character >> or space is announced when pressing the arrow keys. I seem to get varying >> results with this on the Mac so far. I've gathered from reading threads in >> the past that has something to do with the cursors all following or not >> following each other, but I'm still a little confused and this is really >> driving me batty. >> >> Thanks for any enlightenment you can spread my way and, as always, you guys >> who selflessly continue to give invaluable information to us newbies on this >> list simply rock!!! >> >> -- >> 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. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > 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. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- 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. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
