Re: forward delete on the apple bluetooth keyboard

2011-03-29 Thread Mary Otten
Esther, your posts are always a source of amazing in depth information. I don't know how you remember all this stuff, but I am grateful that you do. If you ever write a memory book, I'll be first in line to buy it. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you

Re: forward delete on the apple bluetooth keyboard

2011-03-29 Thread Esther
Hi Mary, I guessed you wanted to use the Apple Wireless Keyboard paired to your iPad or iPod touch for text editing, which is why I wrote the reply in two sections: one outlining behavior when paired to the Mac under OS X 10 (only, covering the Fn key combinations) and one part that was genera

Re: forward delete on the apple bluetooth keyboard

2011-03-29 Thread Mary Otten
Thanks, Esther. I am using the Apple bluetooth keyboard on an IOS device, not a Mac. I'm too connected to num pad commander to give that up on a Mac without a fight. I was looking for single letter forward delete. But it is helpful to know the command for doing a word or more as well. Mary M

Re: forward delete on the apple bluetooth keyboard

2011-03-29 Thread Esther
Hi Mary, If you are using the Apple WIreless Keyboard with the Mac, then the commands for editing changes are just the same as a Mac laptop user would make, and you can verify this by turning on keyboard help mode (VO-K), pressing the key combinations, and listening to what VoiceOver announces

Re: forward delete on the apple bluetooth keyboard

2011-03-29 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Mary -- Try pressing the Fn key + Backspace to perform a forward delete. The Fn key is the very bottom left key on the Apple BT keyboard. HTH, Bryan On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > As there is no "sixpack" of keys containing things like insert, delete, page > up, down etc,