OK, You know the old saying, a tutorial is worth a thousand emails. Try this.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1291668/addressbook.mp3 I'm a bit mic shy, so maybe it will be no help at all, but maybe it will give you a better idea what's supposed to happen. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2010-11-04, at 4:02 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Erik, > > Ok so I do cmd-1 and it says card and column then i do vo-i and I still > don't get anywhere. I have never used item chooser until today; is there > something basic I need to know first about using item chooser? what happens > to me now is this: > > I do cmd-1 vo-i it says item chooser 42 items. I then start typing karen to > pull up all my karens and I land up on something that is part of the card > for doctor jackson, my lung doctor who is a man and would shutter to think > his first name was karen! <smile> > > Thank you for your patience as I try to catch up with the expert knowledge > on this list! > > Marlaina > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "erik burggraaf" <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:19 AM > Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser > > > Hi, try pressing command 1 and then go to the item chooser. > > Let me know how it goes. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > User support consultant, > One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in > person, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2010-11-04, at 12:43 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > >> Ok; I think I am not getting something here. I'm in addressbook on my >> macAir and I brought up item chooser; it said 30 items; I started typing >> gary and it said go left. What did I not do? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "erik burggraaf" <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:57 AM >> Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions >> >> >> Hi, see comments below. >> >> Best, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> User support consultant, >> One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in >> person, >> 1-888-255-5194 >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> >> On 2010-11-04, at 11:12 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: >> >>> 1. I need to know how to efficiently navigate calendar and addressbook. >>> In >>> calendar for example, when I do control shit t and then get my date I >>> want >>> to view entered, I hear nothing and when I vo right or left, I'm back to >>> today's date. Also, entering appointments is weird for me because I >>> haven't >>> quite figured out how to know whether I'm on the month chooser, the day >>> or >>> the year, and then we add in the time. It doesn't seem to be consistent >>> that one right arrow takes me to month, 2 to day, 3 to year and 4 to >>> time. >>> Yeh, I'm not really sure how to help with this. I'm sure I have the >>> answer but not really how to communicate it. The inconsistancy in the >>> date and time control could be because it remembers where you left off. >>> so, if you only set the month and the day for an appointment, when you >>> get >>> back to the date control it will still be on day instead of starting back >>> at year. It's definitely not inconsistant so something in the logic of >>> how these things work is off. >> >>> I am still at a loss to efficiently navigate to a contact in addressbook. >>> I'm at such a loss, in fact, I can't even tell you what I can't do, >>> smile! >>> This one is easy. Press vo I for the item chooser menu. You can then >>> start typing. If you type the first few letters of any piece of info the >>> item chooser will pull up everything that has that info. Typing lie will >>> give you all the liebergs. Typing mar will give you all the marlenas and >>> margarets and marys. Even if you have hundreds or thousands of contacts, >>> the item chooser will still get you to the vcard you want in seconds. If >>> you then want their work phone, go back to the item chooser and type >>> work. >>> If you want their home address go to the item chooser and type home. The >>> item chooser may in fact be even more useful in calendar and address book >>> than it is in safari, and that is really saying something. >> >>> 2. Occasionally I need to copy then paste things from a website, such as >>> a >>> recipe. I cannot consistently do this. Sometimes shift downarrow works >>> and >>> sometimes it does not. >> There are two ways to do this. >> One, press control option shift C when you hear something you want to rip >> off of the webpage. This is the copy last phrase to clipboard option. >> It's >> pretty intuitive and will often scoop up large blocks of text for you >> without having to do anything. >> If that fails, press control option enter and then control option left and >> right arrows to select text word by word. Once all the text is selected, >> press control option enter again and then command c to copy. I'm not real >> kean on that method and try to use control option shift C whenever >> possible. >>> I would also love to know how to jump to the next >>> block of unlinked text. In Window-Eyes, I simply press x which moves me >>> by >>> blocks of unlinked text. >>> I had to look this one up. Turns out it is control option command p. >>> For >>> a complete list of html navigation commands, go to safari and press >>> control option shift F. 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