Hi again, Eugenia, Do you perhaps know how to have Text Edit stop autocorrecting my spelling? I am typing in both English and Spanish, and I really don't need it correcting all the Spanish! Lol. I prefer to have it continue autocorrecting in mail, etc.
Thanks, Harry On Jul 11, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi again Harry. > If you have a braille display, and I think you said you did, the tabs will > appear like the letter i with a dot below it. The carriage returns will look > like the letter m with a dot below it. So, if you type in TextEdit in either > grade 2 or computer braille, you can see the control characters displayed so > you can find out if you missed putting in a tab. Because, if you forget one, > of course, your text will be in the wrong column. > > You can turn on control characters by saying yes to see dots 7 and 8. This is > one option I wish we were able to turn the display of control characters on > and off. > > I do this all the time because I have four columns I need to separate in my > braille proofreading reports. Although I could use Numbers to do this, I > found TextEdit better since it produces rtf files, and it is ore flexible for > my reports. > > > Eugenia Firth > gigifi...@sbcglobal.net > > > > On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: > >> Oh, wow. That's fascinating. So by putting a tab between each >> world/designation, it will automatically put them in separate columns? >> Thank you so much; i never knew this, and this will make my translation >> glossaries so much easier once I begin my certificate this fall. >> >> Harry >> >> On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >> >>> Hi Harry. >>> I think you have to hear one or the other. As far as I know, this is true >>> in Windows for Excel, at least it is with Jaws. I don't remember Jaws >>> saying anything about headers, but I believe that it does always say the >>> column and row designations. Someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong. >>> >>> If you're inputting a whole bunch of things, you might try going into >>> TextEdit and typing what you want in the first column. If you want column >>> 2, then put a tab and type it. Finish out with a carriage return. Then you >>> can select all the text with command a, and then press command c to copy. >>> Then go to Numbers, put the cursor on the first column where you want your >>> text to go, and then do command v to paste it. >>> >>> You might not need all this explanation, but I figure somebody does if you >>> don't. I do this procedure all the time because I get thirty or forty >>> entries that are similar that I want to put into Numbers. I've found it's >>> faster to do it through TextEdit. I assume you could do it with Pages as >>> well, but I've found TextEdit to be easier. >>> >>> Eugenia Firth >>> gigifi...@sbcglobal.net >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jul 10, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, I changed those numbers to zero, and that seemed to fix the issue. I >>>> still here the column and row, though, as in A1, B1, etc. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Harry >>>> >>>> On Jul 10, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Harry. >>>>> Please be aware that the default in Numbers is one header column and one >>>>> row header. Therefore, as a precaution, you might want to insert one >>>>> column on the left in column a and a row at the top before you take out >>>>> your headers and change it to no headers. I'm afraid if you don't do that >>>>> first, then you might accidentally erase your top row and the first >>>>> column. Then after you have taken out the headers, you can erase the >>>>> extra row and column you put in as a precaution. >>>>> >>>>> Eugenia Firth >>>>> gigifi...@sbcglobal.net >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 10, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi guys, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm trying to figure out how I can avoid hearing, "selected header >>>>>> cell," in Numbers when moving from row to row and column to column. I >>>>>> want to make a foreign language glossary for my different translations, >>>>>> but that is extra information that I don't really need. Intermediate >>>>>> verbosity doesn't change it at all, and low verbosity says, "header >>>>>> cell, with nothing else, which may or may not be alright; I've not >>>>>> figured that out yet. >>>>>> >>>>>> And also, since I use a Braille display, I assume there's a good way not >>>>>> to clutter the Braille display with unnecessary information? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks so much, all you guys, for the help. it's tremendous and >>>>>> appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>>> Harry >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. > > > -- > 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. 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