Hi Kirsten, highlighting an empty portion of a table in Numbers and copying it to Pages should also work. But creating a table without contents is also possible in Pages itself. I'm totally with you. It's really a pitty that VO doesn't recognizes tables. All we can do is to write an e-mail to accessibil...@apple.com to explane how unbeleivable that is.
All the best Jürgen Am 14.11.2011 um 19:20 schrieb Kirsten Edmondson: > Hi, > Tables is something which majorly bothers me about Pages too. I couldn't > understand why it wouldn't read them. Now I am enlightened! Thanks. > What is the command to convert text to table and table to text which was > mentioned? Or if I read right, how do you create a command like this? > Also, someone said to put your table in numbers, modify it and then copy back > only the columns with text in, back into Pages. But, what if you want to have > blank columns? I create tables for students to fill in, so need blank columns > and just the structure. Will my table come out looking very random? > Thanks. > Kirsten. > > On 14 Nov 2011, at 17:38, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Gigi, >> >> On 14 Nov 2011, at 15:07, Eugenia Firth wrote: >>> >>> Let me make sure I have it straight. I have been doing the layout in >>> Numbers, but what I have been doing is pasting all of the text after I get >>> it done. Also, I finally figured out I had to take out all the extra >>> columns and rows before pasting the text. Are you saying that I should >>> paste each column back into Pages separately? >> >> No. It sounds as though you're doing the right thing. >> >>> I would leave the text in Numbers after doing the layout, but I can't get >>> it to save in Word. It wants to do Excel, which I don't want. >> >> No, it won't save in Word. >> >>> Also, Pages has been converting all my text to an image immediately when I >>> paste it. >>> >> It shouldn't be an image, but it's a kind of dynamic element that VoiceOver >> can't read. However, if you use the command that converts the table to text, >> you can check it and then press Cmd-z to undo that command without damaging >> the layout, as long as you don't change anything. >> >> I've created short cuts for the commands to convert table to text, and to >> convert text to table to make things easier. Alternatively, you can use the >> command to copy the selection into a new textEdit window so that you can >> check your table. >> >> I hope I haven't confused you further. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> -- >> 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.
