No, I am positive I'm not hitting the backslash -- it isn't happening ever in Apple Mail, only in Text Edit files. I guess this is one for my One to One next Saturday. It is horribly frustrating. What *is* the purpose of the ruler, btw? Christine On Mar 20, 2011, at 4:18 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
> Hi Christine: > Forgive me for being simplistic. But, is it possible when typing that you're > hitting backslash when you're hitting enter. They're close one above the > other, and perhaps a fingernail is clipping the backslash. As far as the > numbers, I think there is a ruler that you can enable or disable, which might > account for the numbers. But, I think it would be telling you "ruler" if it > were. Beyond that, I'm stumped. Hope maybe this helps a little. > > Take care > > Carolyn > > On Mar 20, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Christine Grassman wrote: > >> I'm not converting anything, merely writing a document and saving it as an >> rtf file. When I go back into it, there's garbage at the top and backslashes >> wherever I put in a "new line". >> When I have converted Word files in rtf, then gone in to read/review them, >> there has been no such problem. >> Christine >> On Mar 20, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Scott Howell wrote: >> >>> Christine, >>> >>> Editing on a Mac using VoiceOver is different than using Windows and a >>> windows screen reader. Some may explain it more effectively; however, has >>> to do with how the cursor behaves. Not sure about the characters in the >>> document, but sounds like a conversion problem. >>> >>> Scott Howell >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On Mar 20, 2011, at 9:50, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, everyone. I am rather frustrated with Text Edit.n Whenever I >>>> review something I've written (after saving,) there is always a whole lot >>>> of numbers letters, and symbols at the top of the file. Also, whenever I >>>> enter a "new line" there appears a backslash. What is going on? Does >>>> this get sent with the file if I attach it to an e-mail? Thus far, the >>>> only thing I've been able to do is erase all the symbols at the top, then >>>> edit the file for backslashes. >>>> A somewhat related question: is there a way, simply by using the keys and >>>> without switching from words to characters and vice bersa, to move to >>>> characters -- I can read by character, but although cursor tracking is on, >>>> I always seem to be at the beginning or end of a word, rather than on the >>>> character being read. >>>> Additionally, sometimes when VO says a particular word, I am at the end, >>>> and other times I am at the beginning. This makes editing frustrating. >>>> How can I tell where I am? Thanks. >>>> Christine (slowly transitioning from Windows and Word) . . . >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
