Actually I press cmd down arrow to open it. I didn't know about the space bar.
Take care. On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarai, > > You launch bookmarks by pressing the space bar, not by pressing VO-space, > which will indeed bring up an edit field for you to rename the bookmarks. It > sounds as though you are in the correct table of bookmarks; just press the > space bar to go to the page you have bookmarked. The basic organization of > the "Show all Bookmarks" page (toggled on or off with Command+Option+B) is > two tables and a search field. The first table is a collection of your > bookmarks, and contains items like your browsing history, your Bookmarks Bar, > your Bookmarks menu and any folders that you might have created. (You may > also see "Top Sites" in the first table -- I have this disabled). Once you > have selected a collection or folder of bookmarks in the first table, > navigate to the second table to see the bookmarks listed for that collection, > listed by name and URL address, and press the space bar to actually go to > that bookmarked location. If you also use the search field (Command+F to > navigate there) and start typing words or parts of words as your search > terms, the list of bookmarks displayed in the second table (your selected > collection) will be reduced to only items matching your search terms. If you > VO+left arrow from the search field, you'll hear the number of matches > announced, and if you tab to move to the second table you can simply arrow up > or down to review the matches and press the space bar to move to the > bookmarked location you want. > > If you want your search terms to apply to all collections (including > history), VO-Left arrow from the search text box past the information on the > number of matches and the name of the folder you selected in the first table > to "All" and press (VO-Space). Then when you tab to the second table listing > individual bookmarks you'll find all matches to your search terms in all your > bookmark collections. Again, press space bar for the bookmark you want. > > A useful special feature of bookmarks that you save to the "Bookmarks Bar" is > that you can use a shortcut to navigate to the first nine bookmarks: the > first bookmark can be reached with Command+1, the second with Command+2, etc. > The only caveat is that when you add new bookmarks to the "Bookmarks Bar" > with the Command+D shortcut, they are added to the beginning of your list, so > what was bookmark number 1 now becomes bookmark number 2, etc. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Oct 6, 2010, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > >> Hi: >> Okay, right arrow shows the list of bookmarks in the folder; however I >> cannot open them. Pressing vo space brings up an edit field for me to edit >> the name. vo shift o does nothing. Same with a mouse click. Command o brings >> up open file option. So Now I see them, but cannot open them. >> On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> did you try to just right arrow into it? >>> thats what always works for me on all menus, including bookmarks. >>> >>> -Eric >>> >>> On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: >>> >>>> Hi: >>>> I have two tables, the one that has the history, imported October 5, top >>>> sites, etc folder. I go to the October 5 imported. The next table has the >>>> 50+ folders. I arrow to the news folder. It says it is collapsed, and has >>>> 55 items. I cannot open it to go to the bookmarks inside. I've vo >>>> backslashed, mouse click, vo shift m, vo o, etc. No luck. >>>> On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello. you need to vo right to the list which is the second table. >>>>> >>>>> good luck. Oh and do this from safari itself. >>>>> >>>>> S >>>>> On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi: >>>>>> I have no clue why the Safari bookmarks get me in trouble! Okay, here is >>>>>> the issue. At first, I could only see 1 folder of bookmarks, and every >>>>>> time I'd attempt to open I'd hear VO say open file. So, I figured my >>>>>> MobleMe syncing went aray. So, I reset sync preferences, and sank again. >>>>>> No luck! Importing favorites didn't work! I see all folders, but I >>>>>> cannot open them to access the favorites! I'm out of options. Here is >>>>>> what I've done. >>>>>> 1. Disabled MobleMe Sync. >>>>>> 2. Erased safari files in prefs. >>>>>> 3. Reset Safari settings. >>>>>> 4. Went to IE, exported favorites as file. >>>>>> 5. Went to Safari, imported favorites, I.E. bookmark html file. Now I >>>>>> see all folders in bookmarks. >>>>>> 6. Rebooted Mac. >>>>>> 7. I can see all bookmarks, hear there are items in the folders, but >>>>>> cannot expand them to access the bookmarks in the folders, i.e. news >>>>>> folder, CNN bookmark. Quick nav is off. >>>>>> > > -- > 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.
