Hello Gigi, To create tables with different width columns, you have to use Numbers then select the cells you want to copy, press Cmd-C and paste the table into your Pages document. Pages with VO can only create equal-width columns.
I have to use Pages all the time as I'm a translator, and get MS Word documents to translate. The vast majority of the time, everything works great, it's just text boxes that cause trouble, because Pages puts them all at the end of the document. Cheers, Anne On 12 Oct 2011, at 19:49, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Thanks Anne. This kind of blew me away because it never occurred to me to > interact with the image. I'll do some more experimenting with this. > > I have been typing material into TextEdit which eventually would be converted > into a table in Word by a reader. This works pretty good because I can get > the reader to double check my stupid typing while he's at it. What I need are > three fairly narrow columns and then one bigger. I couldn't figure out how to > do that. Now that you showed me how to read these templates, is what I just > described fairly easy to do in Pages without taking a long time to do it? > > I could use Word, but I was getting some errors from Jaws when typing in > tables anyway, and editing when not in a table is easier for me. > > Regards, > Gigi > On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Gigi, >> >> The templates in Pages contain quite a lot of placeholder text that >> disappears as soon as you start typing over it. You can actually read it if >> you want to. The inportant thing to remember is never to use Quick Nav in >> Pages, and that you have to interact with the text, then use the arrow keys >> without the VO keys to find the placeholder text which is highlighted as >> soon as you move into it. >> >> Just using the arrow keys is also the way to find tables and other elements >> that VoiceOver doesn't read. If you find a highlighted space, chances are >> it's a table. But you can find out easily enough by using the Services menu >> item, New TextEdit Window Containing Selection. I've created a shortcut for >> this since I use it all the time. You have to create the short cut in System >> Preferences. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> On 12 Oct 2011, at 18:19, Eugenia Firth wrote: >> >>> Hi Anne. >>> Have I missed something here, but are not the templates in Pages images >>> unless you create them yourself? If they are images, can you change them so >>> that they are text? When I looked at the templates in Pages, I couldn't get >>> VoiceOver to read them. I could get them to work fine in Numbers. >> >> -- >> 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.
