Re: Best scanners for text scanning

Hello Eileen, VueScan is a scanning Application that recognises a vast number of scanners. You can find out all about it from the developer's website: www.hamrick.com Cheers, Anne On 1 May 2014, at 04:51, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > HELLO All, > > I was intrigued with something that Annie sai

Re: Sample text that VoiceOver is skipping

Interestingly, when navigating right by word using Option-right-Arrow, the word Secret was not read, but when navigating left it was. Cheers, Anne On 2 May 2014, at 16:29, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I believe that this has been around for quite a while actually. I thought > that it had

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

Hello Phil, If you can find a first example of what you want to change, you can highlight it and copy it to the clipboard. You can then paste it into the Find command. Cheers, Anne On 3 May 2014, at 21:13, Phil Halton wrote: > In text edit I can search for and replace such characters as new

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

and replace new lines in pages, but you > can do so in text edit. special characters such as tab and new line are often > the subject of search and replace actions in any good word processor. > Any ideas about this? > > On May 3, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: &g

Re: VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

Hello Nic, I hadn't paid attention to this before, but you're right. It certainly happens in Pages, but not in Mail. Cheers, Anne On 4 May 2014, at 04:35, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Hi list, > > I've noticed a bug which I think has crept in with Mavericks. If I navigate > by word with opti

Re: Problem with Pages Jumping Around

Hello Brian, Have you changed any of your VO settings recently? I find that everything works better when my mouse pointer ignores the other cursors. Also, have you got Quick Nav on? After that, my next suggestion is to repair permissions. For the record, I'm having no such problem with Pages.

Re: heading levels

Hello Christina, If you use the Web Rotor, in Headings, you can type a number and only the headings of that level will be shown. Alternatively, with Quick Nav on and with single letter navigation enabled, you can type a number and you'll be taken to the first heading of that level. Cheers, An

Re: Setting Styles in Pages using Voice Over

Hello Rowena, You should be able to use a hotkey to apply a paragraph style in Pages with VoiceOver on. It always works for me. As for setting a new style and a hotkey, here is what to do. * Press VO-Space on the Paragraph styles button. * If you wish to ad a new style, press VO-Space again w

Re: good o c r for mac

Hello Doug, Here is the list of formats for FineReader Pro. PDF, ePub, Word, FB2, Excel, Image, PowerPoint Presentation, HTML, ODT, CSV, TXT, and RTF. Cheers, Anne On 7 May 2014, at 01:16, Doug Lawlor wrote: > D what formats does fine reader scanned into? > Thanks, > Doug > > Sent from my

Re: good o c r for mac

document? I've been through these > choices many times and I can't find .txt for instance, nor have I found .csv. > > > Thank you > > Andrew > On 7 May 2014, at 06:49, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Doug, >> >> Here is the list of f

Re: good o c r for mac

a sighted friend to have a look for me too. I like > FineReader Pro very much indeed. I have plenty to learn but it is worth it. > > Thanks again for your response. > > Andrew > On 7 May 2014, at 10:23, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Andrew, >> >>

Re: good o c r for mac

open Finereader with my scanner >>>>> attached, I see the table from which I choose the source of the images to >>>>> be added, i.e. mac, my scanner, and then to the right just 4 choices of >>>>> scanning to pdf or word or excel or html and then I c

Re: good o c r for mac

: > > Thanks Anne! > For this link! > Colin > "The Avalanche has started! > Its to late for the pebbles to vote!" > [Kosh Babylon 5 2258] > > On 8 May 2014, at 07:57, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello William, >> >> Here is the link to t

Re: good o c r for mac

Hello Annie, On 8 May 2014, at 22:49, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > > Anne which version of the finereader do you have. THere has been 1 update for > the app store version and maybe 2 for the version purchased from abbyy > directly. I have Version: 12.0.3 (458861) Part: 1215/1. Cheers, Anne

Re: Fine Reader OCR

Hello Scott, The screen where you can set the DPI appears after the preview scan has finished. I don't know whether the setting sticks or not but I should think it would. Cheers, Anne On 12 May 2014, at 13:32, Scott Berry wrote: > How does one ensure that all documents scanned that are PD

Re: address labels in pages

Hello Jessica, The new version of Pages doesn't talk to the Contacts app so it's useless for this purpose. Use the print dialogue in the Contacts app. It works for labels and envelopes and you can configure it for custom labels. Cheers, Anne On 12 May 2014, at 16:50, Jessica wrote: > Hi >

Re: address labels in pages

Hello Jessica, In the print dialogue, look at the Label tab and you'll find the check box Print my address. Uncheck it and all will b fine. Cheers, Anne On 12 May 2014, at 20:48, Jessica wrote: > Yes, but when I do at, my name appears in the top corner of whatever I print > & I do not want

Re: Am I Crazy, or Does this Word Sound Way Off?

Hello Alex, I know I'm in a minority, but I use Fred and he pronounces it exactly the same and correctly in both instances. Cheers, Anne On 15 May 2014, at 17:56, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > Here's a word we all know and probably don't love: > AT & T > > I put spaces in there. Now, using

Re: Turn off automatic spell checking

You may also have to turn it off in individual applications by going to the Edit menu and down toSpelling and Grammar. Just yesterday, I was working in Pages in French and couldn't get the thing to stop trying to correct spelling despite having the option turned off in System Preferences and Pa

Re: using Team Viewer?

Hello Alex, As far as I know, the slave machine should be running TeamViewerQS (TeamViewer Quick Support) and the master should be running TeamViewer. The TeamViewerQS user gives an ID and password to the TeamViewer user after which the master can see the slave's screen and control that compute

Re: using Team Viewer?

Hello Alex, First of all, use VO-F1-F1 to switch apps on the slave machine. As for the sound, we use Skype at the same time as TeamViewer to hear the other person's machine talking. Cheers, Anne On 18 May 2014, at 17:26, Alex Hall wrote: > Sorry, one more major problem. VoiceOver speech co

Re: Pages text selection bug workaround

Hello Phil, Selecting with Option-Shift-Up Arrow still isn't working for me, but I can select using VO-Return and navigating up the way. It still doesn't work down the way. Strange. Cheers, Anne On 18 May 2014, at 16:39, Phil Halton wrote: > As a relatively new user of Pages, I have encoun

Re: Reading Documents

Hello Tristan, TextEdit works perfectly well for reading long texts. It sounds as though your verbosity settings need changing. Set your verbosity to medium, then in the Text tab, set punctuation to some. Set When encountering a misspelled word: to either play tone or do nothing. When I read w

Re: Reading Documents

Hello Gabriel, I rarely read books in TextEdit, but one way to mark your place and find it again is to enter an unusual string of characters and use the Find command when you next open the book. Don't forget to delete those characters immediately, though, or it will cause confusion later. Chee

Re: french keyboard

Hello May, If you're adding the standard French azerty keyboard, make sure to choose the standard keyboard and not the numeric one as the VO commands do not work correctly with the numeric version. The standard French keyboard gives you the numbers with the shift key, and the upper case accente

Re: turning off the mac

Hello Don, I put my Mac into sleep mode at night and very rarely shut it down. However, VO-Cmd-Eject is the best way to shut it down. It's all to easy to hold down the Power key for too long and shut the Mac down brutally without it having the chance to close down tidily. Cheers, Anne On 6

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

Hello Stacey, Once you've found the splitter, turn the trackpad commander off if it's active, then bring the mouse with VO-Cmd-F5. Press down on the trackpad with one finger and use another finger to stroke the trackpad from top to bottom. This should drag the splitter to the bottom of the scre

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

Hello Reggie, The preview pane in Mail is where the body of a message is displayed automatically when you navigate to a message. When the preview pane is showing, you can't navigate past a message without opening it and some of us don't like this behaviour at all. If the preview pane is removed

Re: Activities

Hello Tim, I'm not sure about this but I certainly don't get these announcements. Have a look at what you have set for "When status changes" in VO Utility/Verbosity/Announcements. I have it set to "Play tone". Cheers, Anne On 7 Jun 2014, at 01:53, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Just lately

Re: How do I play this interview?

hello Max, Having opened the page, use the Web rotor and go to Links. Type MP4, press Return and navigate right until you hear HTML5 and do VO-Space. It should start playing. Alternatively, you could download one of the MP4 files. Cheers, Anne On 10 Jun 2014, at 07:41, Agent086b wrote: >

Re: Messages and Mail / One Row Added -was- Re: VO won't shut up when downloading files if Downloads folder is open

Hello Cara, Could this problem be related to the Notifications? I've removed everything from Notifications and set them all to do nothing. Just taking them out of Notifications wasn't sufficient. I have an activity for Mail with Verbosity set to Low, and links and URLs set to play tone. This a

Re: notification center

Hello Jean, In System Preferences, go to Notifications and uncheck all the check boxes for each application. It isn't enough just to take an application out of Notification centre, you have to disable all the alerts as well. Cheers, Anne On 16 Jun 2014, at 12:35, Jean wrote: > Hello All: >

Re: Messages and Mail / One Row Added -was- Re: VO won't shut up when downloading files if Downloads folder is open

Hello Cara, I only hear the "One row added" when I'm actually in Mail. However, I always hide the apps I'm not currently using, so this could explain why I'm never bothered by this. Cheers, Anne On 16 Jun 2014, at 16:52, Cara Quinn wrote: > Hi Anne, > > Thanks so much for the suggestion,

Re: Text edit problem

Hello all, If you don't want to sink documents with an iCloud account, you can go into System Preferences/Internet accounts and uncheck Documents & Data in the iCloud services table. after that, TextEdit should open to a new document automatically as it does for me. I only use iCloud for Find m

Re: more questions about braille displays

I use a Braille display with my Mac when I'm doing a translation as it saves a lot of time I would otherwise spend checking spellings of names and verifying punctuation and text attributes. I've also just got a Focus 14 Blue 8 days ago and I'm now enjoying reading books with it on my iPhone. I j

Re: more questions about braille displays

Hello Gabriele, I use Pages when translating from DOC or DOCX and the online dictionary I use is Word Reference. I don't use any translating tools as I think they give poor results. By the way, I've been using Pages since iWork09 came out and miss some of the features that used to be available

Re: Pages and bookmarks. Was: Re: more questions about braille displays

; Gabriel. > Il giorno 21/giu/2014, alle ore 22:43, Anne Robertson > ha scritto: > >> Hello Gabriele, >> >> I use Pages when translating from DOC or DOCX and the online dictionary I >> use is Word Reference. I don't use any translating tools as I think th

Re: Pages and bookmarks. Was: Re: more questions about braille displays

Hello Gabriele, I haven't tried this, but it might be worth setting a Hotspot at the point where you break off. Cheers, Anne On 22 Jun 2014, at 12:10, Gabriele Battaglia wrote: > Hi Anne, morning and thanks for your replay. > > Before having the iPhone, I was used to read books under Wind

Re: Selecting and copying items from a table in OSX safari

Hello Matt, There are several ways of copying text from a website. The easiest way is to copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboard (VO-Shift-c. Sometimes, shift plus arrow keys will work, other times, VO-Return to start selection, navigate with VO keys then VO-Return to stop selection will w

Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

Hello Daniel, What you need to understand is that Pages is an Apple proprietory format and it is just a concession to the fact that many people need to share files with MS Office users that we can save in Word format. So, no, you can never set Pages to save automatically in Word format and it w

Re: jumping to items in Doc

Remember that you can reorganise the items in the dock. I have mine in alphabetical order so the Finder/FineReader problem is quickly resolved. Cheers, Anne On 13 Jul 2014, at 19:03, John Panarese wrote: > Yes, if you type more than one letter, it should jump you to that item. For > examp

Re: a question about how to make VO read an entire document

The command to read from top of document is VO-b. VO-w is the command to read visible text. You can find all the VO commands by doing VO-h-h. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jul 2014, at 14:15, Alex Hall wrote: > VO[w reads the entire thing -- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: Making Alex sound a bit more robotic

Hello Daniel, Have you thought of trying a different voice? I use Fred because I find him less obtrusive than any of the other voices. He's also very reactive being a lightweight voice that's been around for years. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jul 2014, at 20:59, Daniel McGee wrote: > Hi all, somet

Re: Label a button

Hello Terje, The command to label an element is VO-Slash. What language keyboard are you using? VO-Slash works for me both on a British keyboard and a French one. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jul 2014, at 21:50, Terje Strømberg wrote: > Hi > > I am at the button and press vo-shift-/ to label a butto

Re: item chooser

Hello Jean, On a laptop keyboard, you add the FN key to the left arrow for Home, to the right arrow for End, to the up arrow for Page Up, and to the down arrow for Page Down. Cheers, Anne > On 19 Feb 2015, at 22:47, Jean wrote: > > David and All: > On some pages the item chooser works fine

Re: track changes in an RTF?

It might be possible just to save the RTF document in Word format then open it in Pages. Cheers, Anne > On 20 Feb 2015, at 21:44, David Griffith wrote: > > I am afraid this is not correct. > > Pages does not directly support rtf files, though I agree that this is > surprising. > See > htt

Re: Annonying mail problem

Hello, In Yosemite, I have Mail set to Classic view and I have removed the preview pane. To read messages in conversation view, i just press Return and the latest message is read automatically. To read the previous messages, I stop interacting and do VO-Left Arrow and the previous message is re

Re: Preview pane

Hello Stacey, This has been discussed a great deal recently, but here are the instructions once again. Here’s how to disable the preview pane. Put Mail into classic view by opening Mail preferences (Cmd-Comma) and selecting Viewing in the toolbar then checking the Use classic layout check box.

Re: Preview pane

; Cheers, > > Ed >> On 22 Feb 2015, at 07:51, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Stacey, >> >> This has been discussed a great deal recently, but here are the instructions >> once again. >> >> Here’s how to disable the preview pane. >>

Re: Pages and Textedit: Highlighting Text on more then one page

Hello Jürgen, In TextEdit, set it to Wrap to window (Cmd-Shift-w) and you can select text in the normal way. Pages, however, is a different story and it has been discussed a great deal on this list. A sighted person can select text across page boundaries in Pages as long as VoiceOver is turned

Re: Pages and Textedit: Highlighting Text on more then one page

Thanks, Barry. This is working for me. Would you mind if I put this on my French website for other people to use? Cheers, Anne > On 28 Feb 2015, at 16:50, Barry Hadder wrote: > > I can tell you how you can select text across page boundaries in Pages. I > explained this in an earlier post.

Re: Pages and Textedit: Highlighting Text on more then one page

Hello, I just created the document in TextEdit, having set it to plain text before copying in all the information. I then just removed the .txt from the file name and it worked perfectly. I’m pretty sure that UTF8 is set by default, so if you haven’t changed that for some reason, there’s no nee

Re: Pages and Textedit: Highlighting Text on more then one page

Hello Donna, VO doesn’t say anything when yu use these commands, but the second one is Ctrl-x-x not just one x. Have you activated and set a short cut for the service New TextEdit window containing selection? It’s a quick way to verify that you’ve selected what you wanted to select. Cheers,

Re: Pages and Textedit: Highlighting Text on more then one page

Hello Donna, To enable the service New textEdit window containing selection, go to SystemPreferences/Keyboard and select Short cuts. in the first table, select Services, and in the second table, you need to go quite a long way down to find Text. To set a short cut, I suggest you use something w

Re: KNFBReader pre-purchase question

Hello Phil, I was reluctant to buy KNFB Reader because I’ve had a lot of success with both Prizmo and TextGrabber. But when KNFB Reader was available with a 25% reduction around Christmas, I treated myself to it and was amazed at how easy it is to use, and how accurate it is. I, too, have an iP

Re: Voice Over not saying the letter c

Hello Jürgen, Here in France, someone has been having the problem of VoiceOver not saying the letter r. The person is using the Nuance voices. Cheers, Anne > On 3 Mar 2015, at 09:05, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > Sounds wiered indeed. But I’m glad to read this because I expected it to be > just

Re: can't find unread mail messages

Hello Christina, It sounds as though you have the preview pane visible. This means that when you navigate to a message, it opens automatically, so you never see an unread message. This is why I always disable the preview pane. If you read your messages by doing VO-j to get to the body, you have

Re: Preview pane

Hello Stacey, I replied to you on this subject a couple of weeks ago but here are the instructions once again. Disabling the preview pane. Put Mail into classic view by opening Mail preferences (Cmd-Comma) and selecting Viewing in the toolbar then checking the Use classic layout check box. Clo

Re: how to add applications on dock?

Sorry, Steve, it’s Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-t in Yosemite. I seem to remember that in Mavericks, it’s Ctrl-Cmd-t. Cheers, Anne > On 12 Mar 2015, at 10:21, Steve Nutt wrote: > > Hi, > > Command-Shift-T. > > All the best > > Steve > > -- > Computer Room Services > 77 Exeter Close > Stevenage > Hertf

Re: Preview pane

hanks > dionipher >> On 22 Feb 2015, at 12:19, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Ed, >> >> Yes, by “bring the mouse” i do mean VO-Cmd-F5. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >>> On 22 Feb 2015, at 08:56, Edward Green wrot

Re: So Voice Over is on the Apple Watch.

Hello Mary, I’m with you on the braille watch. I’ve had my current one for years, despite a houseful of dogs and cats. The Apple watch appears to be too bulky for my liking. Cheers, Anne > On 19 Mar 2015, at 01:18, Mary Otten wrote: > > I am not going to go out and get an Apple Watch right

Re: a few mac questions before starting school this fall

Hello Brian, Here’s a link to our web page explaining what we do: > Cheers, Anne > On 23 Mar 2015, at 16:03, Brian Howerton wrote: > > Hello all, > Since I have decided to switch to the mac permanently now, I am gett

Re: a few mac questions before starting school this fall

for > you in general, if you don't mind. > > Chris. > --- > Check out my web site at: > http://www.clgproductions.net <http://www.clgproductions.net/>- Original > Message - >> From: Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk> >> To: m

Re: Some Success with Calendar on the Mac.

Hello, > On 25 Mar 2015, at 00:22, gs wrote: > > The problem I do have is with multiple calendars when I navigate through the > events, some are not announced. Have you checked the Calendar Sources table just below the tool bar where you can check or uncheck calendars? I have 23 calendars in

Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

Yes, ABBYY FineReader Pro is very accessible and will do what you want. Cheers, Anne > On 27 Mar 2015, at 12:14, 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi all. > I'm considering to buy Abby Fine Reader for Mac. > I wonder how much it is accessible and, if it could be useful to s

Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

Hello Gabriel, > On 27 Mar 2015, at 15:25, 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > I own a quite old scanner. How do I know if it is compatible with my Mac and > Abbyy Fine Reader? FineReader Pro recognises most scanners that are recognised by the Mac. So connect your scanner to

Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8

Hello Jon, Apparently, the update to iOS 8.2 stopped devices using bluetooth 4.2 connecting to iOS devices. I encountered this problem with my Okoia bathroom scales which communicate with the Airscale app and were working fine until I updated from iOS 8.1.3 to iOS 8.2 at which point the connect

Re: Proposal to create an alternate MacVisionaries list

Hello Donna, There are already several Mac and iOS lists in existence. MacVisionaries has gone through periods like this before and has always recovered. Cheers, Anne > On 29 Mar 2015, at 12:11, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hello all, > > One thing that yesterday's events have made abundantly c

Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8

Hello, > On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover in the first > place was that the only company making a screen reader for Mac OS went out > of business. If that company couldn't survive before voiceover, it certainly

Re: desktop saying space when I switch to it

Hello Ted, Go into System Preferences and select Mission Control. Uncheck the check boxes and set all the short cuts to “-“ except for the dashboard keyboard options pop up button which should be F12. Cheers, Anne > On 4 Apr 2015, at 18:24, ted phillips wrote: > > Hi all. I don’t know how

Re: Dictation questions

Hello Phil, In System Preferences/Accessibility, select Dictation then click the Dictation Commands… button and check the Enable advanced commands checkbox. You’ll find a long list of spoken commands you can use. Cheers, Anne > On 7 Apr 2015, at 16:44, Phil Halton wrote: > > I have a hand

Re: My mac won't say the letter T.

Try switching to a different voice, then switching back again. This has worked for some people. The problem is horribly common, I’m afraid. Cheers, Anne > On 9 Apr 2015, at 14:26, Vivianna wrote: > > Hi. > yesterday i updated to the latest yosemite and, now my computer won’t say the > lette

Re: My mac won't say the letter T.

k to samantha again. >>> hmhmhm. >>> a few months ago someone posted a way to get rid of all of the voiceover >>> settings and then go and reconfigure things. that did work permanently. >>> if anybody knows how to do that, please let me know. >>> i look

Re: My mac won't say the letter T.

I have my keyboard echo set to words and that works fine. I can’t stand to hear every character spoken. Cheers, Anne > On 9 Apr 2015, at 16:16, Vivianna wrote: > > thanks. this worked. yea!. > are you also having lag with the letters being spoken while typing? my > computer does not seem

Re: Apple concept would require users to input health data to keep using their iPhone

As far as I’m concerned, this is the height of arrogance on the part of Apple, trying to tell us what’s healthy and what isn’t. As if anyone had all the answers. They seem to be trying to turn us all into obsessive-compulsives! Cheers, Anne > On 11 Apr 2015, at 05:49, The Believer wrote: >

Re: Nisus Writer Pro

How does Nisus Writer Pro handle tables these days? Last I heard, they didn’t work with VoiceOver. Cheers, Anne > On 12 Apr 2015, at 08:30, Christopher Hallsworth > wrote: > > Hi all > I am currently trying Nisus Writer Pro, it seems to be very good and > personally better out of the word

Re: Nisus Writer Pro and tables

Tables work fine in Pages. I think it’s the only word processor for the Mac where this is true. Personally I have no problem using Pages, I just wish they hadn’t got rid of some of the professional features of iWork09. It’s true that iWork09 will run under Yosemite, but the features I miss don’

Re: Can't change font in Pages

Hello Andrew, You can’t select text across a page boundary in Pages unless you apply the fix provided by Barry Hadder. The fix works great and I recommend it to all Pages users. If you can cope with French, here’s a link to a page on my website where you can download the xipped folder and ther

Re: Can't change font in Pages

Hello Andrew, I don’t know what happened there, but here’s the link to the appropriate page: > The bit you want is a level 3 heading Keybindings. Once again, I’m sorry it’s in French, but I live and work in France. Cheers,

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

Hello John, I just installed the latest version of Office this evening and have decided to use it for a translation I’m doing. I haven’t used Word since Word 5! I’m just feeling my way. But I’ve managed to change the document language from French to English which is a start. One way in which O

Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

Editing in Word is Weird. When I do Option-Right Arrow, then just Right Arrow alone, it reads each letter of the word I just thought I’d jumped over. Also, Option-Left Arrow apparently takes me to the left of the word before the one I thought I’d jumped over. I also have insertion point issues,

Re: doing a paper in pages, my experience

Hello Barry, Although in Pages images won’t overflow text, they will fall off the edge of the page! It’s always important to check the X and Y coordinates and the size of the image. The current version of Word is lacking in many ways. I feel as though I’m wading through mud when using it, wher

Re: mail notification

Mail has been losing its sounds on a regular basis for years! If closing and reopening it doesn’t work, just repair permissions. Cheers, Anne > On 23 Apr 2015, at 04:49, Alex Hall > wrote: > > I've found that Mail does that from time to time. If I close Mail and re

Re: Help creating resume on pages

Hello, When using one of the templates provided in Pages, there’s a problem with placeholder text. What you have to do to be able to navigate using the arrow keys is to press Return followed by Cmd-z. After that, you won’t start moving the element around. Cheers, Anne > On 23 Apr 2015, at 1

Re: doing a paper in pages, my experience

Hello Gabriel, I’m not familiar enough with Word to rate it honestly. However, Pages is 95% accessible and, in my opinion, easy to use. Of course, the accessible version of Office is still in beta so you would expect problems. Cheers, Anne > On 23 Apr 2015, at 08:51, 'Gabriele Battaglia' vi

Re: doing a paper in pages, my experience

Hello, You know the size of your page and its margins, so you know the size of the available space. It’s a case of simple arithmetic. Just make sure that you’re using either inches or centimetres and not points. Cheers, Anne > On 23 Apr 2015, at 13:36, Devin Prater wrote: > > How can you c

Re: Help creating resume on pages

On page 2, in English, the placeholder text says Education and training, so that’s where you put your education information. Cheers, Anne > On 23 Apr 2015, at 15:56, Dionipher Presas Herrera > wrote: > > on the curriculum vitae, i dont se where i can insert my scholastics -- You received

Re: office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

an activity where you turned this behaviour on or if it’s >> on turn it off? >> /Krister >> >>> 22 apr 2015 kl. 22:59 skrev Anne Robertson : >>> >>> Editing in Word is Weird. When I do Option-Right Arrow, then just Right >>> Arrow

Identifying styles in Word

Hello, Here is how to identify the current style in Word. Cheers, Anne • Make sure you are focused on body text. • Interact with the Home ribbon tab group. • Navigate right to the Styles menu button and click it. • In the pop over, navigate to the Styles Pane checkbox. • Bring the mouse and cli

Re: Identifying styles in Word

Hello Sean, I don’t think that VO-t will ever announce the style since VO-t announces text attributes which are an element of a paragraph style. For myself, I have no problem with setting a hotspot. It’s exactly what I do in Pages for the same purpose. Cheers, Anne > On 25 Apr 2015, at 11:17

Re: VoiceOver says something about formatting by having VoiceOver jump to the Formatter. WTF?

Hello Kevin, The Formatter is what its name implies, the area you go to to format your document. If you’re using Pages without using the formatter, you’re missing out on the full power of Pages. Cheers, Anne > On 27 Apr 2015, at 22:50, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > > Every so often, while working i

Re: The spell checker in microsoft word preview.

Yes, I’ve noticed that, too. The word in question is reported as an image. Cheers, Anne > On 28 Apr 2015, at 11:34, Annie Skov Nielsen > wrote: > > Hi all. > > Has anyone noticed that we are not able to use the spell checker in MS word. > I would be glad if one of you who are sending feedb

Re: VoiceOver says something about formatting by having VoiceOver jump to the Formatter. WTF?

the page, and so many other things. Cheers, Anne > On 28 Apr 2015, at 17:15, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > > How do I get to the formatter? I know nothing about it. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 28, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>

Re: VoiceOver says something about formatting by having VoiceOver jump to the Formatter. WTF?

nt from VO that I can move > to the formatter? VO simply speaks that out of the blue every so often. > Ticks me off. You know? >> On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Anne Robertson > <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: >> >> Hello Kevin, >> >>

Re: The spell checker in microsoft word preview.

that there is a work arround, use command option control e > and command option control shift e, when you will navigate between misspelled > words with the voiceOver function, you can as usual use vo+shift+m and find > the suggestions. > > Cheers Annie. >> Den 28/04/2015 k

Re: ocr

What’s your problem with scanning multiple pages with FineReader? You can set it to scan multiple pages automatically and set the time between scans to suit your needs. Cheers, Anne > On 2 May 2015, at 23:22, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: > > i use fine reader for my mac, and i like it mu

Re: scanning a book on fine reader

Hello, To obtain all the scanning options, click the item marked Right Arrow to the left of the Source table and they’ll all appear inside a scroll area. Cheers, Anne > On 14 May 2015, at 08:00, Dionipher Presas Herrera > wrote: > > how do you convert it to txt, i only do have word, pdf, ex

Re: Files Sometimes Going into Subfolders in Save Dialogs

Hello Alex, I’m not having your problem, but I can tell you how to check quickly that the correct folder is selected. After selecting your folder, stop interacting and navigate left past the side bar and the search field and check what is selected in the pop up menu. It should be the folder yo

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

Hello Eileen, Whenever you have a problem finding an element on a page in any application, try using the Item Chooser (VO-i). It can save you a whole lot of frustration. In Word, I just tried it with Home and it put me in the ribbon. When I entered Help, it found Help MicroSoft improve Office,

Re: MS-Word tool bar (was Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015)

Hello Chris, These buttons have Help tags so presumably you have VO set to speak Help tags. Cheers, Anne > On 25 May 2015, at 02:38, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Weird. They seem to be labeled here. > > Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

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