Hi, I've copied and pasted below a portion of a web-page I used to have regarding TextEdit. Editing text within TextEdit is similar to using other Word Processors on the Mac as the MacOS tries to make actions similar across similar applications. This has not been updated in a couple of years but I believe that all of this is still relevant. With respect to your questions about copying and pasting within the Bookmarks Bar, you'll need to use the "Show All Bookmarks" option under the Bookmarks menu if you wish to Copy and Paste things within the Bookmarks Bar. There are Contextual menu commands available within the Bookmarks Bar when you press VO-shift-m on any of the Bookmark Bar buttons but things are far more accessible when in the "Show Bookmarks" window.
Getting Started To use TextEdit, simply open it from your Applications folder then interact with the Edit field. To open Word documents, you can select the given document, open a Contextual menu (VO-shift-m) then choose "Open with", then choose TextEdit. You can tell the Mac to always open these sorts of files in TextEdit by selecting a .doc file, pressing cmd-i (Get Info), then navigating to the Open With area. Once there, you can tell the OS to always open these file types with a specific application, in this case, TextEdit. VO Commands in TextEdit When navigating through text in TextEdit, you can use the following commands. These commands can also be used when navigating through text in some other applications. A reminder that VO means CTRL-Option. VO-a: Read all the text. If you are interacting with the text, you will read from the VoiceOver cursor location to the end of the text. VO-s: Read the sentence in the VoiceOver cursor. VO-Page Down: Read the next sentence. VO-Page Up: Read the previous sentence. VO-p: Read the paragraph within the VoiceOver cursor. VO-Shift-Page Down: Read the next paragraph. VO-Shift-Page Up: Read the previous paragraph. VO-l: Read the line within the VoiceOver cursor. VO-Down Arrow: Read the next line. VO-Up Arrow: Read the previous line. VO-w: Read the word in the VoiceOver cursor, press a second time to spell the word and a third time to spell it phonetically. VO-Right Arrow: Read the next word. VO-Left Arrow: Read the previous word. VO-c: Read the character at the VoiceOver cursor. Press again for its phonetic. VO-Shift-Right Arrow: Read the next character. VO-Shift-Left Arrow: Read the previous character. VO-Home: Move to the first visible word and read it. On a laptop computer, press VO-FN-Shift-Left Arrow. VO-End: Move to the last visible word and read it. On a laptop computer, press VO-FN-Shift-Right Arrow. VO-Shift-Home: Move to the beginning of the text, scrolling if needed. On a laptop computer, press VO-FN-Shift-Left Arrow. VO-Shift-End: Move to the end of the text, scrolling if needed. On a laptop computer, press VO-FN-Shift-Right Arrow. VO-t: Get text attributes. Editing Text Editing text within TextEdit is similar to editing in other word processors although it's good to note a few differences in the way VO travels compared to other screen reading software. When navigating with the down arrow, VO will land at the end of the line of text that it is reading. When navigating with the up arrow, VO will land at the beginning of the text that is read. When navigating with the right arrow, VO will land at the end of the word or letter announced. When navigating with the left arrow, VO will land at the beginning or to the left of the word or letter announced. Setting Tabs To set tabs in TextEdit, navigate to the ruler and Interact with it: VO-space: Set a tab stop at the given location on the ruler. VO-Delete: Remove the tab stop at the given location on the ruler. VO-shift-Down Arrow: Interact with a set tab stop. Then use the left or right arrows to move the stop accordingly. Line Spacing To set the Paragraph and Line spacing in TextEdit, navigate to the ruler and Interact with it, then navigate to the Paragraph and Line Spacing pop-up menu and choose the spacing you desire. Selecting Text To select text in TextEdit: Shift-Right Arrow: Highlight the next character. Shift-Left Arrow: Highlight the previous character. Shift-Down Arrow: Highlight from the cursor position to the same position on the next line. Shift-Up Arrow: Highlight from the cursor position to the same position on the previous line. Option-Shift-Right Arrow: Highlight the next word. Option-Shift-Left Arrow: Highlight the previous word. Cmd-Shift-Right Arrow: Highlight from the cursor position to the end of the line. Cmd-Shift-Left Arrow: Highlight from the cursor position to the beginning of the line. Cmd-Shift-Down Arrow: Highlight from the cursor to the end of the text. Cmd-Shift-Up Arrow: Highlight from the cursor to the beginning of the text. Spell Checking Spellchecking documents using TextEdit is quite easy to manage. Simply press cmd-semi-colon to begin. TextEdit will stop on the first word it determines to be spelled incorrectly and announce "word Highlighted", where "word" is the misspelled word. Press VO-shift-m to get a Contextual menu where alternative choices for spelling will be available. Arrow up and down through the choices and press Return on the one you like. If you are unsure of the context or exact spelling mistake you made, simply navigate so that you can hear the sentence, phrase or specific spelling error. Once you have completed corrections to the spelling error, press cmd-semi-colon to move on to the next misspelled word. You can tell TextEdit to "Ignore" misspelled words or to "Learn" spellings of words it is not familiar with. If there are no more misspelled words, TextEdit will announce "Check Spelling" then make a "thud" noise to let you know that everything is OK. Most other features of TextEdit are self-explanatory and no different for VO users than for sighted users. Remember that key combinations are announced after each specific menu item when using the menu-bars. Take time to investigate and learn how easy it is to create and edit documents within TextEdit. Good luck. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-04-14, at 10:29 PM, dr.abdull...@gmail.com wrote: > I mean in txt editing > Also I have proplem with bookmarks bar just I copy and baste > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. 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