Hi. there were a couple of commands i didn't know about mainly some of the highlighting commands. thanks for this comprehensive post.
Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 16/04/2013, at 2:29 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > 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. 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