Re: update on voiceover issue.

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
to go back > to El Capitan, but at some point in time I would think Apple will release a > better update that works properly with VO. > > Thanks, > > Eileen > > > From: Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk> > Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 3:50

Clean install of El Capitan

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, I know this has been covered before, but here’s how to do a clean install of El Capitán. Cheers, Anne Download El Capitán from the Appstore. When it opens the installer, quit it. Make sure you have a spare 8 gb USB drive and give it the name Untitled. Prepare your USB Flash Dr

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
For me, iBooks in Mac OS X El Capitán, iBooks is working OK. I have it set to 2 pages and can either read using VO-a or by sentence, paragraph, etc. In fact, I much prefer Adobe Digital Editions on the Mac, and Kobo on the iPhone to read eBooks. Besides, living in France, there are lots of Engli

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Adobe Digital Editions works for reading PDFs but you don’t have the same ability to read by character, word, line, etc. I use it for reading DRM protected books from Kobo since the Kobo application doesn’t work on Mac. Kobo for iOS works pretty well except for turning pages to get to where you

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andrew, When I open iBooks, there is a toolbar at the top left of the window, and to the right of it is Bookshelf scroll area. I interact with this and land on the Sort By button. Navigating right, I find a grid of book titles, and if I interact with one, I find a button. Pressing VO-Spac

Re: Numbers question - Columns have moved

2015-11-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Matt, Could you just delete the added column? You can use Cmd-Down Arrow to go to the bottom of a column, and Cmd-Right Arrow to go to the end of a row. Cheers, Anne > On 10 Nov 2015, at 12:41, Matthew Dierckens wrote: > > Hi Guys, > While at work yesterday, I accidentally managed to

Re: Something To Consider When Updating Your Mac

2015-11-12 Thread Anne Robertson
In my experience, the problems arise under two different circumstances. Installing a new OS on top of a previous one often causes unpredictable problems, especially for VoiceOver users. And the other circumstance is where people get impatient and do things like closing the lid of a laptop or pre

Re: El Capitan - Upgrade or Clean Install

2015-11-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Bill, I’ve been teaching Mac with VoiceOver here in France for several years and in my experience, a clean install is the safer option. Some people manage to do an upgrade with no problems, but the majority end up with anomalies that drive them to do a clean install in the end. This seems

Re: writing a u with Diaeresis on the Mac?

2015-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Donna, Option-u gives you the diaeresis as a dead key. Cheers, Anne ¨ > On 14 Nov 2015, at 15:47, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Anyone know how to produce this character? It's the only diacritic I can't > seem to find. > Thanks, > Donna > > -- > The following information is important for a

Re: Focus issues in Pages

2015-11-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Grant, Focus is a real problem with the latest version of Pages. I’ve found that navigating using the VO keys then bringing the keyboard focus by pressing VO-Cmd-F4 works most of the time. Cheers, Anne > On 14 Nov 2015, at 21:03, Grant wrote: > > Hi all, > > In the latest release of

Re: contacts are not synching

2015-11-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ray, Try logging out of iCloud on your iOS devices and back in again. That fixed the same problem for my husband. Cheers, Anne > On 16 Nov 2015, at 04:55, Raymond Foret Jr wrote: > > Hi there. > ! > A most peculiar problem. After restoring my Mac, I find that once I’ve > signed in

Re: upgrading my mac

2015-11-16 Thread Anne Robertson
So what is your favourite website? Some of us might like to try it. Cheers, Anne > On 16 Nov 2015, at 20:48, Zoe Fiogkos wrote: > > Yes, you are right about yosemity not being available. I called apple > accessibility and they told me the same thing. > I looked under purchased and no cigar,

Re: pages help please?

2015-11-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Zoe, First of all, make sure that Quick Nav is off. Interact with the area that says: “Body”. This is where you enter text. You should be able to navigate using the arrow keys without the VO keys and you select text by adding the Shift key. So, Shift-Right Arrow will select one character

Re: pages help please?

2015-11-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Zoe, As you’re a complete beginner on the Mac, Pages is not the most appropriate word processor for you to be using. If you open your Applications folder while in the Finder by pressing Cmd-Shift-a, you should find TextEdit. This is a much simpler program and should do what you want. To p

Re: pages help please?

2015-11-19 Thread Anne Robertson
e top towards the bottom. And in the caption field at the bottom of the > screen there is an arrow pointing up. Even if I'm at the beginning of the > document the arrow never points down. What do you think of that? > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@

The Mac and Braille

2015-11-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, It used to be that you could press a router key on a Braille display to bring focus to that cell. These days, pressing a router key performs the default action for the item. I looked through all the VO commands and couldn’t find any that would do what I wanted, but I discovered

Re: oppinions wanted

2015-11-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Zoe, I think you’ve been very unfortunate with your iMac. If it’s possible, try to persuade Apple to replace your machine as it sounds like you got a bad one. The online help you got was spot on. I went through similar steps with a friend who recently bought her first Mac and was having s

Re: please help, my hard drive is being inundated

2015-11-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Erik, Is your SSD one you installed yourself? If so, could Trim Enabler have stopped working? Safari can also eat up space, but your situation sounds much too drastic to be Safari misbehaving. Cheers, Anne > On 26 Nov 2015, at 08:19, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi, I'm having a very st

Re: itunes on the mac help?

2015-12-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Stacey, It really isn’t a good idea to have your music library on your desktop, since everything on your desktop is loaded into RAM when you log in. It will slow down your Mac horribly. What’s wrong with using the Music folder in your Home folder? After all, that’s what it’s there for. C

Re: Moving mail signatures from 'all signatures' to account?

2015-12-04 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, Did you try turning cursor tracking off either when using VO-Comma or when trying the other method? I just applied a signature to an account the other day using the VO-Comma method and it worked when I turned cursor tracking off. I have eight accounts and sometimes dragging and drop

Re: Partitions

2015-12-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello E.T., It would appear that since El Capitán, partitioning a disc has become inaccessible. I’ve reported this to Accessibility. Numeric editable fields are provided for specifying the size of each partition, but when you change the values in these fields, they immediately revert to what th

Re: Managing spaces with VoiceOver on El Capitan

2015-12-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, Have you tried opening System Preferences and looking at Mission Control. Try unchecking the first four checkboxes, then set all the shortcuts except for Dashboard to Hyphen, which is the last choice in the menus. I don’t know that this will fix your problem as I’ve always disabled M

Re: why 'clicking the X' doesn't close an app to VoiceOver?

2015-12-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, The X is equivalent to Cmd-w. She needs to go to the application menu and click on Quit. Otherwise, she could just use Cmd-q. The standard shortcut to get to the menus is Ctrl-F2. To go to the Dock is Ctrl-F3. To go to the menu extras is Ctrl-F6. To go to the toolbar is Ctrl-F5. I us

Re: VoiceOver on/off

2015-12-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Shawn, The three-finger double tap turns speech off, not VoiceOver. There is no keyboard shortcut for this, but you can create one. The command is called Mute Speech Toggle and is in the Audio menu. Cheers, Anne > On 9 Dec 2015, at 08:00, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Isn't that command

Pairing Apex with Mac in El Capitan

2015-12-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello all, I’m trying in vain to pair a BrailleNote Apex with a client’s MacBook Pro running the latest version of El Capitán. I’ve tried in VoiceOver Utility and it fails every time. I’ve tried in System Preferences and it connects, but when I go to VoiceOver Utility, it can’t load the Apex! Tr

Re: Pairing Apex with Mac in El Capitan

2015-12-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sabahattin, Thanks for the help. The stupid thing connects and then says that it’s loading a driver or something and that fails every time. I hate these note-takers! I’ll test the USB connection and my client will have to put up with it. Cheers, Anne > On 13 Dec 2015, at 20:14, Sabahatt

Re: Pairing Apex with Mac in El Capitan

2015-12-13 Thread Anne Robertson
ebsite, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > >> On Dec 13, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >&g

Re: Pairing Apex with Mac in El Capitan

2015-12-13 Thread Anne Robertson
gt; AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > >> On Dec 13, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello John, >> >> The machine is a brand new MacBook Pro 13-inch Retina that we unpacked

Re: Problem with Infovox Ivox latest updates

2015-12-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, Many people, but not all, on my French list are having the same problems as you with the Infovox iVox voices. Assistiveware are trying to find out what’s happening and why it only affects certain people. I gave up on the voices a while back as they cause too much trouble when insta

Re: Problem starting VoiceOver

2015-12-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, As far as I know, the only way to launch VoiceOver is with Cmd-F5. However, sometimes VoiceOver gets muted so it’s a good idea to create a shortcut in one of the commanders for the commands “Mute Speech Toggle” and “Mute VoiceOver Toggle”. These commands are in the Audio menu of the

Re: Real quick question about Keynote

2015-12-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Chris, Have you tried changing the Y coordinate for the area of the slide you want to move? It should be in the Arrange formatter under Position. Cheers, Anne > On 21 Dec 2015, at 05:48, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > I tried vo+accent grave already. Good suggestion though!

Re: Pages

2015-12-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Marie, Focus on your table without interacting with it and jump to the Formatter (VO-j). Select Table then interact with the scroll area. Navigate down the lefthand side until you reach Row & Column Size and expand the disclosure triangle. Navigating right you’ll first find the row height

Re: a showstopper in the latest safari update

2013-10-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Matt, If Eric's computer is too old to take Mountain Lion, it won't take Mavericks. It isn't a question of the existing OS but the hardware of the machine. Cheers, Anne On 24 Oct 2013, at 17:28, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi, > Unfortunately, Eric can't upgrade to ML, but I think he can

Re: saving mail attachments in OS10.9

2013-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello all, It’s true that interacting with headers and navigating right no longer gets us to the Save button, but navigating to the attachment in the body of the message and getting a contextual menu (VO-Shift-m) gives us the Save dialogue. Cheers, Anne On 25 Oct 2013, at 15:36, Alex Hall w

Re: hide Mail's preview pane in 10.9?

2013-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Chris, I don’t know about modern view in Mail, but in classic view, turn Quick Nav off, navigate to the Messages table but don’t interact, then press VO-Down Arrow and you should be on the horizontal splitter that you need to double click on. Cheers, Anne On 25 Oct 2013, at 18:19, Ch

Re: saving mail attachments in OS10.9

2013-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Yes, I’m running Mavericks which is why I can no longer interact with headers, navigate right and find the Save popup menu. I’m using classic view with the preview pane turned off. Mail is working just fine for me. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: attachments in mail now more logical

2013-10-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mario, You can show attachments in the messages table by going to the View menu, down to the Columns submenu and pressing Return on Attachments. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this gr

Re: Adding Items to Doc.

2013-10-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello emilio, The new short cut to add an application to the Dock is Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-t. Cheers, Anne On 26 Oct 2013, at 16:20, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In the recent iteration of Mavericks, the once-before keystroke of > “cmd-shit-t” appears to know longer work. > Does

Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, I seriously hope I’m wrong about this, but I can’t find the merge fields anywhere in the new Pages. This makes it very complicated, if not impossible, to use Pages for mail shots and invoices. Another problem I’ve found is the lack of hotkeys for setting styles. Where have they

Re: Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-26 Thread Anne Robertson
les anymore. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I seriously hope I’m wrong about this, but I can’t find the merge fields >> anywhere in the new Pages. This makes it very complicat

Re: Classic Versus Current view in Mail

2013-10-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Teresa, I’ve always preferred classic view with the preview pane turned off. That way, I can decide not to read a message until later and it stays marked as unread. In Mavericks, Mail is rather more verbose than it was, so after pressing Return to open a message, I press VO-End to skip al

Re: Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniela, You can report problems directly from the Pages app. In the Pages menu is an item called Provide Pages Feedback which goes to the appropriate page on the Apple website. I’ve already done this as I’m furious about the degradation in the functionality of Pages. Cheers, Anne O

Re: no longer told if messages are read and unread

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ray, If the preview pane is showing, all your messages will appear to be read as each message opens as soon as you land on it. This is why I always disable the preview pane. Cheers, Anne On 27 Oct 2013, at 10:15, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Ever since I played with the preview pain in mail

Re: no longer told if messages are read and unread

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
at helps. > > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello

Re: Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
d > unfair. There is a lot here, and What is here seems quite good to me, and > for the things that are missing, I think for now everybody should be willing > to give them a chance. This is the app store age where new features can be > instantly pushed out to millions of people f

Re: no longer told if messages are read and unread

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
user! > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Ray, >> >> In Classic view, you go to the messages table but don’t interact with it. >> Make sure that Quick Nav is off. VO-Down Arrow and you should hear >> “Horizontal split

Re: no longer told if messages are read and unread

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ray, What happens if you do VO-Down arrow when you’re on the horizontal splitter? If there’s nothing below it, you’ve got rid of the preview pane. If that isn’t the case, another way to get rid of it is to route the mouse to the horizontal splitter, then press your finger down on the trac

Re: think I closed preview pain but not sure.

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Michael, Here’s one way to get rid of the preview pane. Put Mail into classic view. Make sure that Quick Nav is off and that you’re not interacting with the message table. Do VO-Down arrow to the horizontal splitter. Bring the mouse (VO-Cmd-F5). If you have a trackpad, make sure that trac

Re: Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniela, I think what you’re referring to are merge cells in tables. What’s bothering me is the lack of merge fields in normal text. There’s now no apparent way to bring addresses in from Contacts, for instance. The fields in my existing templates have now become placeholder text which me

Re: Some useful Mac keyboard shortcuts

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Have you switched the FN key from the default? If not, press FN-Ctrl-F2. Cheers, Anne On 27 Oct 2013, at 23:28, BBS wrote: > Hi Chris. I don’t know why, but my system bonks every time I try using the > control+F2 command. > > Shawn > Sent From My White Mac Book > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 6:4

Re: Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-27 Thread Anne Robertson
it would be more helpful > for Voiceover users to set the accessibility description. Whenever that is > set, vo will read it instead of the actual button title. > > cheers. > > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Daniela, > > I

Re: Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Actually, it is true that if you already have an installed copy of iWork, the upgrade is free. I know this for a fact, because I bought iWork09 when it first came out and it was installed on my MBA when I upgraded to Mavericks. I got the upgrade of iWork free. The old version must be installed,

Re: closing the preview pain in 10.9 still a pain

2013-10-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ray, In classic view, the horizontal splitter is below the messages table and you have to drag it down to the bottom of the window. Dragging to the right will not work. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. T

Pages and dates

2013-10-28 Thread Anne Robertson
I’m going through my teaching materials for Pages and finding problems. The latest one is that we can no longer modify the date style in a document using a contextual menu. Pages takes the date style from System preferences/Language&Region/Advanced where it uses the Full version of the date. We

Re: Pages and dates

2013-10-28 Thread Anne Robertson
aybe they will re-instate them in a future update. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> I’m going through my teaching materials for Pages and finding problems. The >> latest one is th

Re: Pages and dates

2013-10-28 Thread Anne Robertson
features that you were accustomed to. Beyond that, it appears >> that quite a number of people have been letting Apple know their >> disappointment with these feature losses and maybe they will re-instate them >> in a future update. >> >> Later… >> >> Tim Kilb

Re: Pages and dates

2013-10-29 Thread Anne Robertson
MS Office does not work with VO. Many people say they can’t use a Mac because there’s no acceptable alternative to MS Office that’s accessible. And now, I have to agree that iWork is no longer up to the job. In reality, iWork no longer exists. There are just three stand-alone applications: Pages

Re: TextEdit and iText no longer work under Maverick like they used to

2013-10-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andrew, I’m not having your problems with TextEdit under Mavericks. I always interact with the text and Find commands work correctly. Have you repaired permissions lately? Also, resetting the PRAM can also fix weird problems. Cheers, Anne On 30 Oct 2013, at 16:44, Andrew Lamanche wro

Re: TextEdit and iText no longer work under Maverick like they used to

2013-10-30 Thread Anne Robertson
onstantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > On Oct 30, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Andrew, >> >> I’m not having your problems with TextEdit under Mavericks. I always >> interact with the text and Find commands wo

Re: TextEdit and iText no longer work under Maverick like they used to

2013-10-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gigi, I’m using TextEdit under Mavericks and when I select text, VoiceOver says the text followed by “highlighted”. I interact with the text so that the VO commands will work. Cheers, Anne On 30 Oct 2013, at 19:16, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys > Bad news! We don't know it, but whe

Re: The Calendar is weird on the Mac.

2013-10-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kawal, In Calendar, have you tried using the command VO-Cmd-x to go to Next List? Also, when you want to find a command, try doing VO-h-h to get the complete list of VO commands. You’ll be amazed at what you find. Cheers, Anne On 30 Oct 2013, at 19:34, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hello

Re: request. automatic updates. voice over feature.

2013-10-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mario, VoiceOver is not a screen reader like JAWS or NVDA, it is an alternative way of interacting with the operating system. VoiceOver is not a separate application in the OS, so what you are requesting makes no sense. Updates happen to VoiceOver just as they do to the other elements of

Re: TextEdit and iText no longer work under Maverick like they used to

2013-10-31 Thread Anne Robertson
et Info) or >> cmd-e (Edit Event) which, by the way, appear to bring up the same window. To >> delete the event, navigate to it then press the Delete key and follow the >> prompt. When I posted in Neil’s question, I was in Month view so it was not >> as easy as in Day vie

Re: TextEdit and iText no longer work under Maverick like they used to

2013-10-31 Thread Anne Robertson
app, you are able to edit/delete events >>> easily. To edit the event, simply navigate to it then press cmd-i (Get >>> Info) or cmd-e (Edit Event) which, by the way, appear to bring up the same >>> window. To delete the event, navigate to it then press the Delete key a

Pages: exporting to other formats

2013-11-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, If you’re using the new Pages, the export function does not work as expected. Whatever you select in the Export submenu has no effect on the format. You have to interact with each Unknown on the next screen until you find the format you want, then bring the mouse and do a VO-Shi

Re: Pages: exporting to other formats

2013-11-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello all, Here’s the response I got from Accessibility. Cheers, Anne Hello and Thank you for the detailed feedback. It's always nice to have full and complete descriptions along with steps to reproduce. These unlabeled areas have been reported to the appropriate people. In the meantime

Re: Manually updating iWorks programs in Mavericks

2013-11-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniel, You could try contacting Apple to get a code to download the new version of the iWork suite. Alternatively, install Mountain Lion on an external disc and install iWork, then upgrade to Mavericks on that disc and you’ll get the new versions. They’ll then be in your purchase history

Re: TextEdit

2013-11-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gigi, You need it to be set to Wrap to Window for editing to work with VoiceOver. Just press Cmd-Shift-w and all will be well. All the same, this is a bug and the more people who report it to Accessibility, the higher its priority will be. Cheers, Anne On 5 Nov 2013, at 19:58, Eugenia

Re: trouble with inaccessibility of pages after mavricks update

2013-11-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Brooke, Have you updated to the new version of Pages along with Mavericks? I keep a test document which is a restaurant menu arranged into several tables and the new version of Pages works well with this document. Using the old version of Pages, I had to select the menus, which showed up

Re: TextEdit

2013-11-05 Thread Anne Robertson
e there any certainsettings for characters and lines in Preferences > that I need since I changed them? > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Gigi, >> >> You need it to be set to Wrap to Window for editing to work

Pages for Mavericks: modifying date

2013-11-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, We’ve worked out how to change the date format in Pages. Instructions below. Cheers, Anne Highlight the date and time. Bring the mouse and do VO-Shift-Space. You’ll hear the current date followed by “Pop up button”. Click this button to get a menu giving various forms of the d

Re: Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages

2013-11-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ibraheem, In the new Pages, if you stop interacting with everything, the second item on the page is the Change tracking and annotations toolbar group. Interact with this and click the Next button the changed text will be highlighted. You can read it with VO-F6 and decide what to do about

Re: Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages

2013-11-12 Thread Anne Robertson
to my knowledge VoiceOver still does not work fully with track > changes. Track changes do not only highlight changes, but it also indicates > whether the change is a deletion or an addition, or a format change. Anne > Robertson, who is the guru on Pages with VoiceOver and on t

Re: Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages

2013-11-13 Thread Anne Robertson
ce to update the materials in light of the new versions. >> Cheers, >> Nic >> On 13/11/2013, at 9:15 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Nic, >> >> Tracking changes is working much better in the new version of Pages. It >> tells you whether the ch

Re: Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages

2013-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
> Greg > > > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Ibraheem, >> >> My husband and I teach a Pages course via Skype and teamviewer. We’re >> currently updating the materials for Mavericks and the new Pages. >> >> We c

Re: Navigating Listview, was Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, In List view, the right arrow expands the folder you’re on which is confusing. To open the folder you should use either Cmd-Down Arrow or Cmd-o. To go up a level, press Cmd-Up Arrow. You can collapse all the expanded folders in your window by pressing Left Arrow repeatedly. I alwa

Re: Finding audible books once downloaded to your computer

2013-11-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andrew, If, like me, you have the option to open downloaded files automatically turned off, your Audible books will be in your Downloads folder. You can open this by pressing Cmd-Option-l. Cheers, Anne On 17 Nov 2013, at 23:54, Andrew Head wrote: > Hi all, > I saw on the audible webs

Re: command enter supposed to insert page break in pages

2013-11-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andrew, Remember that Enter is not the same as Return. to put in a page break in Pages, you have to press Cmd-FN-Return. Cheers, Anne On 18 Nov 2013, at 11:12, Andrew Head wrote: > Hi all, > I was told command enter would insert a page break in pages. I’ve tried this > and it doesn’t

Re: What do all of you guys think of this?

2013-11-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, If I didn’t have to teach VoiceOver, I wouldn’t have upgraded to Mavericks. I don’t like iCloud either, but it’s become inescapable for someone who uses both a Mac and an iPhone. I restrict my use of iCloud to contacts and calendars which I share with my husband. I never use it for docu

Re: pages question

2013-11-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jean, To use iTunes to transfer documents to Pages on your iPhone, connect your iPhone to your computer and select it in the Sources table. Select the Apps, tab and interact with the scroll area. Go to the second table which is the apps that can share files with your computer. Select Pages

Re: transfering documents to pages

2013-11-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jean, I don’t know why the Add button would be dimmed. You should select Pages in the list of apps that can transfer documents using iTunes. You should then find the File sharing documents table. This shows the files on your iPhone. You can also share files created on your iPhone by click

Re: Scanning as tif files on the mac.

2013-11-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Annie, Here is my set up guide for VueScan to work with ABBYY FineReader. Cheers, Anne Configuring VueScan 1) Open VueScan and read carefully the initial message which informs you as to whether your scanner has been recognised. If it has, carry on, otherwise follow VueScan's instructio

Re: Latest release of Vuescan reprots "busy" all the time

2013-11-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, VueScan produces clearer images than ABBYY FineReader so when FineReader receives the images for OCR, it does a better job. Here, we’ve had the lifetime license for VueScan for over ten years, so $79 has been well worth it. Cheers, Anne On 25 Nov 2013, at 03:38, Phil Halton wro

Re: Discovered weird bug in Numbers

2013-11-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gigi, This is exactly the same bug as in Pages. I reported it to Accessibility a few weeks ago. You can also get it to work if you just jump to the last item in the dialogue box instead of checking that the correct format is selected. Cheers, Anne On 26 Nov 2013, at 23:16, Eugenia Firt

Re: Latest release of Vuescan reprots "busy" all the time

2013-11-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, It’s often been impossible to specify ABBYY FineReader as the external viewer, which is why, in my set up guide, I say to create a TIFF file, then use Cmd-i to set all TIFF files to open with FineReader by default.. Cheers, Anne On 28 Nov 2013, at 04:17, Phil Halton wrote: > I

Re: Does Abbyy FineReader Express really have two Text Conversion Buttons?

2013-11-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Teresa, Both buttons do the same thing, but one is an image and the other one text. Cheers, Anne On 30 Nov 2013, at 21:18, Teresa Cochran wrote: > hi. i’ve been wondering about this for awhile. in the Quick Tasks Window i > find what VO says is two buttons labeled “convert to text”. I

Re: Renaming a table in the new Numbers using Mavericks

2013-12-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Here’s a way to rename a table in the new Numbers. • Navigate to cell A1. • Bring the mouse. • Turn on Mouse keys. • Press 8 until you hear something like “A reference tab. • Press ‘i’ 3 times. • Turn Mouse Keys off then type the new name for the table. The same trick works in the new Pages. Che

Re: Abbyy Fine Reader Pro

2013-12-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Janet, When you have a DMG, it’s a disk image and you need to open it. Sometimes, this gives you a file browser containing a .pkg file which is an installer package. You open this with Cmd-o and follow the instructions, but mostly, you go to the last visible item and click Continue over a

Re: Abbyy Fine Reader Pro

2013-12-08 Thread Anne Robertson
ned the disk image and copied > the.ap file and pasted it into the Applications folder. Any idea about > what’s happening? > > Thanks, > Janet > On Dec 7, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Janet, >> >> When you have a DMG, it’s a disk image

Re: Renaming a table in the new Numbers using Mavericks

2013-12-08 Thread Anne Robertson
gt; > Later… > > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Here’s a way to rename a table in the new Numbers. >> >> • Navigate to cell A1. >> • Bring the mouse. >>

Re: Renaming a table in the new Numbers using Mavericks

2013-12-08 Thread Anne Robertson
e best > Jürgen > > Am 07.12.2013 um 21:07 schrieb Anne Robertson : > >> Here’s a way to rename a table in the new Numbers. >> >> • Navigate to cell A1. >> • Bring the mouse. >> • Turn on Mouse keys. >> • Press 8 until you hear something like “A refer

Re: Paragraph Styles in the New Pages

2013-12-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Des, Unfortunately, there are no longer hot keys to do this. However, VO-j will take you to the Formatter, and I find that I land on the Paragraph styles button if that’s where I was last time. If you give your paragraph styles names beginning with different letters, you can just click th

Re: ordering contents of folders in ML

2013-12-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, As long as you’re in list view, you can interact with the list and navigate to the Kind column then use the Jump to header command, press VO-Space, then do the Jump to header command, and your documents will be sorted alphabetically within types. If you don’t have any Adobe files, t

Re: putting text on the right hand side of a page and how to know which side it's on

2013-12-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andrew, To put text on the right-hand side of the page in the new Pages, jump to the Formatter and select the Layout radio button. Interact with the scroll area and navigate down to Indents and press VO-Space to expand the disclosure triangle. Navigate to First and set it to the number of

Re: Convert tect to table in new pages

2013-12-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniela, The Convert text to table feature has gone from the new Pages. However, you can create your table by copying it to the clipboard, then opening a Pages document and inserting a table. You then select all the cells in that table by interacting with it and doing Cmd-a. You then past

Re: tabs and pages

2013-12-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jim, When you say you want your text to be right aligned, do you mean that you want your text on the right-hand side of the page, or for the right-hand edge of the text to be aligned? To align the text down the right-hand margin, VO-j from the body of the document to the Formatter and se

Re: tabs and pages

2013-12-20 Thread Anne Robertson
hat if I can figure out how to set them. > Jim > > On Dec 20, 2013, at 2:55 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Jim, >> >> When you say you want your text to be right aligned, do you mean that you >> want your text on the right-hand side of the page, or for t

Re: locating line position in pages

2013-12-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jim, You can find the location of the insertion point by pressing VO-F4 twice. The first time it tells you where you are in relation to the nearest character, and the second time it tells you your position within the element in whatever measurement you’ve chosen. For me, it tells me in mi

Re: VO always focusing on the toolbar?

2013-12-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, This is a setting in VoiceOver Utility, Navigation category. Initial position of VoiceOver cursor: should be set to Keyboard focused item to avoid your problem. Cheers, Anne On 27 Dec 2013, at 14:52, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > Yesterday, when I booted the Mac, VO started doi

Re: "Apple submenu" message, gets quite annoying...

2013-12-27 Thread Anne Robertson
This started happening to me with the latest update to Mavericks. I just ignore it but I’m sure it’s a bug. Cheers, Anne On 27 Dec 2013, at 17:34, Jessica D wrote: > Hi have this checked, it does not do this to me. Must be something weird with > your system. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On

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