Re: double spacing in text edit

2012-06-21 Thread Esther
Hi Christina, If you are using TextEdit in rich text mode, and you just want to set the line spacing to double space, the easy way to do this is to VO-Left arrow (left arrow, if you have Quick Nav on) from the scroll area for the text, to the pop up menu buttons in the title bar. You'll first

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-05 Thread Esther
Hi Brianna, Tim, Marlaina, and Others, I wanted to add a suggestion that will make it easier for you to use TextEdit: once you have configured the spacing and fonts to your satisfaction, save these settings as a style file under a name of your choice. Then, when you want to create a Rich Text doc

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Brianna Snyder
document format? >> >> Thanks for all your help, >> Brianna >> - Original Message - From: "Tim Kilburn" >> To: >> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 4:05 PM >> Subject: Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit >> >>

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
- Original Message - From: "Tim Kilburn" > To: > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 4:05 PM > Subject: Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit > > > Hi, > > If your ruler is not showing itself, you may have accidentally pressed cmd-r > which hides it

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Brianna Snyder
- Original Message - From: "Marlaina Lieberg" <1guide...@gmail.com> To: Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit Brianna, You will find this list to be a marvelous resource, and the people who post here are brill

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
er 04, 2010 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit > Or, go visit the incredible page Tim shared with us! It's wonderful. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Brianna Snyder
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Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
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Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Brianna Snyder
ks for all your help, Brianna - Original Message - From: "Tim Kilburn" To: Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit Hi, If your ruler is not showing itself, you may have accidentally pressed cmd-r which hides it. Try

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If your ruler is not showing itself, you may have accidentally pressed cmd-r which hides it. Try this: 1. Press cmd-comma to bring up your Preferences. 2. Make sure the New document tab is selected. 3. Navigate until you find the Show Ruler checkbox. 4. Make sure it is checked. 5. If t

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Ryan Mann
When you open TextEdit, don't interact with the edit field. Hit vo+left arrow until you hear "rooler." Then interact with the rooler. After you interact with the ruler, Vo left or right arrow until you find the paragraph and line spacing menu. After that, vo+space to open that menu. Then do

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Brianna Snyder
Hi Colin, Thanks, that'll definitely help. But...I can't find the ruler. When I open TextEdit, I'm interacting with the edit field. When I uninteract with that, I see the regular close, zoom, minimize buttons, and I see untitled, and the edit text field. Where is the ruler located? I have see

Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit

2010-12-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Brianna! When you've opened a new text edit window scroll to the ruler and interact with it vo+space+down arrow or with quick nav just press down the down+right arrows together and in there is a menu to change line spacing and other stuff! when you are done just stop interacting with vo+space

Double Spacing in Pages and TextEdit and getting answers from the List Archive [was Re: double spacing]

2010-03-24 Thread Esther
Hello May, I'll prefix this reply with the answer that the Document Inspector is a window that is used for controlling formatting in Pages, and can be toggled on or off from view with the keyboard shortcut Command-Option-I. For more detailed answers, I'll point out that the search box at the Ma

Re: double spacing

2010-03-24 Thread May McDonald
Um, what's the document inspector and how do I open it? Thanks for your help. May and Wyn On 2010-03-24, at 5:46 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > Not sure about what to do with Text Edit, but with Pages, the > following will do the trick: > 1) Select the whole document, assuming you want the whole thi

Re: double spacing

2010-03-24 Thread Howard Dupuis
Not sure about what to do with Text Edit, but with Pages, the following will do the trick: 1) Select the whole document, assuming you want the whole thing double spaced. (Command-a). 2) Open the document inspector, choose the "Text" radio button, and the "Text" tab below that. 3) Using VO and the r

Re: double spacing

2009-10-16 Thread Esther
o use Help and Google Searching to learn about your Mac) HTH Cheers, Esther HTH Cheers, Esther > From: May McDonald > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:40 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: double spacing > > > > Ah, thank you very much. I didn&

RE: double spacing

2009-10-16 Thread Kevin Gibbs
How do you tell whether the file is using plain text or rich text? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of May McDonald Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: double

Re: double spacing

2009-10-16 Thread May McDonald
Ah, thank you very much. I didn't know that part, smile. On 16-Oct-09, at 8:40 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hi May, > > TextEdit has two formatting modes: plain text and rich text format, > and you can switch between them from the Format menu on the menu bar, > or by using the shortcut key combination,

Re: double spacing

2009-10-16 Thread Esther
Hi May, TextEdit has two formatting modes: plain text and rich text format, and you can switch between them from the Format menu on the menu bar, or by using the shortcut key combination, Command-Shift-T, to toggle between plain text and rich text or vice versa. Automatic double spacing

Re: double spacing

2009-10-16 Thread May McDonald
Hi there. This doesn't work. When I select the text I want and then do vo up it says close button. Nothing about the ruler. On 13-Oct-09, at 10:11 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Select the text you want set to double-space (Command-A if you want > all of the document). Then VO up to move to the

Re: double spacing

2009-10-13 Thread May McDonald
Thanks, I'll try that. On 13-Oct-09, at 10:11 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Select the text you want set to double-space (Command-A if you want > all of the document). Then VO up to move to the Ruler and interact > with that. VO-right about 5 times to reach the paragraph and line > spacing menu

TextEdit style files [was Re: double spacing]

2009-10-13 Thread Esther
Hi Chris and May, Chris gave the information on how to set up double spacing in TextEdit -- which is that when you are rich text format and interact with the ruler and VO-Right there is a paragraph and line spacing button that will let you change the spacing of selected text. However, anoth

Re: double spacing

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Select the text you want set to double-space (Command-A if you want all of the document). Then VO up to move to the Ruler and interact with that. VO-right about 5 times to reach the paragraph and line spacing menu button. VO-space to pull down the menu and then VO-down to navigate to double or

Re: double spacing

2009-10-13 Thread May McDonald
What about in text edit? May, sent from my iPhone On 2009-10-13, at 9:32 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello May, > > In Pages, as long as you already have text in the document, show > Inspector (Command-Option-I). Then make sure you're not interacting > with anything and go to the top left

Re: double spacing

2009-10-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello May, In Pages, as long as you already have text in the document, show Inspector (Command-Option-I). Then make sure you're not interacting with anything and go to the top left corner of the window (VO-FN-Left arrow). You'll hear "Document Radio Button". Navigate right to the fourth b