Hi Mary, If you are using the Apple WIreless Keyboard with the Mac, then the commands for editing changes are just the same as a Mac laptop user would make, and you can verify this by turning on keyboard help mode (VO-K), pressing the key combinations, and listening to what VoiceOver announces before exiting this mode by pressing the escape key. Press the Fn key in combination with the arrow keys: Fn+Left Arrow = Home Fn+Right Arrow = End Fn+Up Arrow = Page Up Fn+Down Arrow = Page Down
These Fn key combinations do not work under iOS when you use the Apple Wireless Keyboard paired to an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. In fact, a good hint that, at least initially, the Fn key was not meant to be part of the standard shortcut combinations for iOS 3.2 and 4.x, is the absence of an "Fn" key on the keyboard of the iPad Keyboard Dock. The bottom row of keys is otherwise identical for this keyboard and the Apple Wireless Keyboard. To forward delete a charcter with the Apple Wireless Keyboard (on the Mac) press Fn+Delete. To forward delete a word (on the Mac), press Fn+Option+Delete. These are all shortcut commands that are part of Mac OS X and work independently of VoiceOver in all Cocoa apps (which means most of the standard apps you work with, such as TextEdit, Mail, etc.). When you use your Apple Wireless Keyboard (or other Bluetooth keyboard) paired to an iOS device many of the combinations described in my archived post on "Moving and Selecting in Cocoa Apps" will work: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg02038.html I'll paste in a part of this below. However, I'll add that since the original post and the extension to Bluetooth keyboard usage for the iOS devices, you can use either the Control key or the Command key in some of these combinations (for moving to the beginning or end of a line, or the beginning or end of a document, for example). I suspect this was done to accommodate Bluetooth keyboards that have no Command key. In fact, for earlier versions of iOS 4.0.x and 4.1.x, in keyboard help mode for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, VoiceOver would not announce the commands for moving to the start or end of the line, etc. whne you used the Command key in place of the Control key, although it would perform the action. On the iOS devices the way I would perform a foward delete by one or more words with the Apple Wireless Keyboard is to press the Shift key along with the Right Arrow and Option keys and then press "Delete". You'll hear VoiceOver announce the selected text (e.g. press Shift, Option, and tap the right arrow key while continuing to press the Shift and Option keys to extend your selection by words, then use the Delete key to delete your selection.) HTH. Excerpted selection from longer archived post that details more ways to move and edit is pasted from the archived link: Control-a moves you to the beginning of a line Control-e moves you to the end of a line but you might have an easier time remembering their counterparts with the Command key and the arrow keys: Command-Left arrow moves you to the beginning of a line Command-Right arrow moves you to the end of a line These key commands work independent of VoiceOver -- they're shortcuts built into the Cocoa structure and are used by everyone -- not just VoiceOver users. You can put together most of the sequences to move that use the Command, Option, and arrow keys, with corresponding sequences to select by simply holding down the Shift key when you execute the commands: command+up arrow move to beginning of the document shift+command+up arrow select to the beginning of the document command+down arrow move to the end of the document shift+command+down arrow select to the end of the document command+left arrow move to the beginning of the line shift+command+left arrow select to the beginning of the line command+right arrow move to the end of the line shift+command+right arrow select to the end of the line option+right arrow move one word to the right shift+option+right arrow select one word to the right option+left arrow move one word to the left shift+option+left arrow select one word to the left option+up arrow move to the beginning of the paragraph shift+option+up arrow select to the beginning of the paragraph option+down arrow move to the end of the paragraph shift+option+down arrow select to the end of the paragraph up arrow move up from present position shift+up arrow select upward down arrow move down from present position shift+down arrow select downward Cheers, Esther Mar 29, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: As there is no "sixpack" of keys containing things like insert, delete, page up, down etc, on the Apple bluetooth keyboard, I am wondering how one does a forward delete on that keyboard. Backspace functions as one supposes it should, but what do you do if you want to delete going the other way, a function normally accomplished with the delete key on the aforementioned sixpack. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- 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.
