Re: Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-21 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Tim, Yes, and if in the situation you outline I enter text in B1 or C1 then the text in A1 changes. However, even though this has technically worked properly, and probably looks fine to sighted people, it doesn't make a lot of sense to a VoiceOver user. If I or another VoiceOver user comes

Opening the Context Menu (was: Re: Using pages, templates.)

2014-01-21 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Jürgen, I wouldn't want to mislead you… :) There are a number of different ways to open the context menu: VO-Shift-M, clicking the TrackPad with two fingers, holding the control key and clicking the TrackPad with one finger, or even, I believe, clicking with one finger on the right hand side

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Just to add a few points… I believe that if you deleted messages in your Sent mailbox that these messages would actually be deleted, and would not still be found in All Mail. Although the Sent mailbox is just a label, deleting a message with the Sent label would remove the Sent label, apply the

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Christina, Those settings for automatically deleting sent messages can be found in the Accounts Tab of Mail Preferences, once you select the relevant mail account and then select the Account Behaviours tab. I used to have this set to delete sent messages after one month, but I ended up changi

Re: How to Delete a Table in Numbers

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Tim and Jürgen, Thanks for that. I tried both methods and they both worked. Seems strange that there's no delete option in the table or context menus, but handy to know that option-delete command – I tried command-delete thinking that would be it, but didn't think to try option-delete. Thanks

Re: Calendar in Mavericks

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You can add specific ‘characteristics’ to the event by typing them in the text area when you first add the event with command-n. For example, if you want the event ‘Dinner’ to go from 6pm to 8pm you can type ‘Dinner 6-8pm’. Just use natural language and Calendar understands. Once it's added, a d

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Jessica, Are you using Mail on a Mac or on an iOS device? Nic -- 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 p

Re: Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
No, that's a great help, thank you, Tim! That will give me what I need to start playing and make some decent progress. Might email Apple Accessibility about that one. Though I do get a bit tired of emailing them, and I imagine they must be a little overwhelmed with accessibility issues at the m

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2014-01-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Just a little more info on the popup menu issue in Numbers, but still no solution, unfortunately. I got my girlfriend to check, and she says that just clicking on the cell doesn't do anything. There's a little triangle or arrow below or next to the cell though, and clicking on this brings up wh

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2014-01-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Wow, Tim, so obscure but worked like a charm! You're a genius (or at least very meticulous and patient). :) I thought the days of Nokia phones without screen readers was bad enough, remembering how many presses of each key to call someone or send a message, but you make that look easy. I felt si

Re: Latest Keynote update enables working in a "slideshow" mode

2014-01-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Woot woot! That's awesome! Thanks for sharing! I know I shouldn't increase list traffic unnecessarily like this but that's just such great news I had to... Let's just hope these kind of improvements keep coming without introducing new bugs and limitations... -- You received this message becaus

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Jessica, The steps are a little complicated and depend on what device etcetera you have and other settings. It also depends on how you have your gMail account set up (e.g. as a gMail account, an IMAP account or a Microsoft Exchange account—all are possible on iOS). If you go to Mail, Contacts

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2014-01-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Great news! Just as you delighted me by discovering that obscure method, Tim, it seems Apple has fixed the issue. Once VoiceOver is focused on a popup menu cell, just hitting the space bar or pressing VO-Space now activates the popup menu as we would expect. This makes Numbers really, really gre

Re: Found a way to mess up Notes

2014-01-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I've really messed up a note before. I'll share it here so hopefully no one else will have my problem. You may have noticed that hypertext links don't work properly in Numbers. Well once I just tried VO-Space on a URL out of habit, and my note, which was lengthy, disappeared to be replaced with

Re: unsubscribing from a podcast on the mac using Downcast

2014-01-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I'm not sure I've figured this one out either. I tend to just configure the podcast settings so that new episodes are not downloaded. Best, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2014-01-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Tim, Agreed, that is something Apple still needs to work on. Currently, it seems to tell you that you've landed on a popup menu if no value has been selected (i.e. it is an empty popup menu). Also, as soon as you've activated the popup menu and selected a value, VoiceOver announces itself as

Re: Downcast for Mac Changes/Problems (was: unsubscribing from a podcast on the mac using Downcast)

2014-01-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Kawal, Yes, Downcast had that method of subscribing to podcast feeds when I first got it and it still has that option for me now--I just tested it. I'm running Version 1.0.5 (1027). I've always found that method a little confusing, but I always figure it out eventually. I'm not having any b

Re: the contacts app

2014-01-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I never open a separate window to edit a contact. I usually use Contacts in Group view mode, if that makes any difference. This gives you a table of groups on the left, the contact info area in the middle, and the list of contacts on the right. Once I select a contact I press the edit button and

Re: table of contents in pages

2014-01-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Jessica, The paragraph style button is the second item in the formatter. It's the one you want. If it's not there, make sure the format button in the toolbar is checked. Best, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscrib

Re: Popup Menus in Numbers

2014-01-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Jürgen, Select the cells you wish to make popup menus or checkboxes; Jump to the formatter with VO-J; Select the Cell radio button, navigate to the cell formatter scroll area and interact with it; >From the data type popup menu, select popup menu or checkbox, depending on >which you want. If y

Creating Folders for iCloud Documents

2014-01-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, I'm enjoying using the new iWork documents in iCloud as they sync well with my iOS devices. However, I'd like to create some folders for my iCloud documents. >From what I've read, one simply drags one document on to another to create a >folder in iCloud. I can't seem to get this to work

Re: Creating Folders for iCloud Documents

2014-01-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Tim, Thanks for this. I wasn't sure it would work that way. Apart from the odd behaviour on iOS, which is pretty hilarious, that method sounds perfect. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: Creating Folders for iCloud Documents

2014-01-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I managed to create the folders fine, and they show up in the document manager/chooser, but I can't seem to open documents in their folders. If I space or VO-Space on the folder, all folders open to reveal their contents, but then pressing VO-Space, Space, Return, or mouse clicking on the docume

Re: Creating Folders for iCloud Documents

2014-01-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Tim, list view works like a charm. Cheers, Nic -- 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

Re: Collaboration with pages?

2014-01-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Alex, For now, collaboration via iCloud from the Mac or iOS version of iWork can only be done by someone sharing the link via iCloud and the recipient editing via the web version of iWork. In other words, both people cannot use the Mac/iOS versions of iWork. Only one Apple ID retains a copy

Re: A question with Pages exporting to word documents

2014-01-31 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Daniel, Just to add a little explanation in case it helps you understand. Pages can "export" to Word. They deliberately use the word "export" rather than save or similar, because you cannot work on and save word doc files like Pages documents. So the idea is you work in Pages format until yo

Re: where to interact with Text in Pages

2014-01-31 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I think you need to interact with the document layout area first. Best, Nic -- 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...@googlegr

Re: Creating Folders for iCloud Documents

2014-01-31 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, Alex, that's right except there's a Documents subdirectory in the Pages directory. Here's Tim's original instructions: 1. Go to the Finder. 2. Up to the Go menu. 3. VO down to Library, let go of the VO keys then press return. You must hold down the VO keys in order that the Library choic

How to Remove FaceTime Favourites

2014-02-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I can't work out how to remove contacts from the favourites table in FaceTime on the Mac. Pressing the edit button doesn't seem to do anything, neither does command delete, delete, VO-Shift-M, and physically control clicking the TrackPad. Any ideas? Thanks, Nic -- You received this message bec

Re: OS10.9.2 is out!

2014-02-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The conversation count is important for two reasons. Firstly, I may have already read the first message in the conversation, and would thus normally skip the thread if I didn't hear that there were more messages in the conversation. Thus, if the conversation count is read early I can know that n

Re: PDF documents and filling in PDF forms.

2014-02-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I never knew you could open PDFs in TextEdit. that's cool. I'll need to try this as I still have one Mac running Mountain Lion. -- 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,

Re: OS10.9.2 is out!

2014-02-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The chatter I get is the word "imbedded", the sender's name and email address, then the word "imbedded" repeated twice. -- 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

Re: Accessibilit of Cobooks

2014-02-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I hadn't heard of it before the Mac Power Users podcast, but it sounds like it would work well as it is all keyboard oriented. However, I haven't tried it so I don't know. I'm pretty happy with Apple's Contacts as it is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

Re: [440611] Nuance Voices Pronouncing Words as Letters/Numbers in 10.9.2

2014-03-02 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The other thing I have noticed in Mavericks and iOS 7 with the Karen voice is that it pronounces some vowel sounds incorrectly. Use Karen in Mavericks or iOS 7 to read the following word fragments, which all end in the letter a for alpha, and hear what I mean: 1. cinta Jacinta, dinta finta, lint

Re: PDF documents and filling in PDF forms.

2014-03-03 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Gigi, What's that about a mode that doesn't allow editing? And how does one allow editing? Cheers, Nic -- 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 macv

Re: PDF documents and filling in PDF forms.

2014-03-03 Thread Nicholas Parsons
, so I think we should help them all we can. I plan to because this is a major thing that needs to get better for us on the Mac. Regards, Gigi On Mar 3, 2014, at 7:18 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > HI Gigi, > What's that about a mode that doesn't allow editing? And how does

Omni Focus

2014-03-04 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I've heard that Omni Focus is pretty accessible on iOS. I'm a big fan and user of task management apps, and I'v heard lots of good things about Omni Focus from non-VoiceOver users. For any task management system to work for me I have to be able to use it on my Mac. So I decided to download and t

Re: Omni Focus

2014-03-08 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks for the tip! On 6 Mar 2014, at 1:22 am, Keith Watson wrote: > If I were you I would wait a month or so for Omni Focus 2 for the Mac to be > release. They are going to start a beta shortly after Mac World. > > Keith > > On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:08 AM, Nicholas Parsons &

Re: Problem Inserting Formulas in Numbers in Mavericks

2014-03-08 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I think that the trainers are just over complicating the issue as they're not used to doing things the VoiceOver way. To insert a formula in Numbers you don't need to click on anything, insert anything from a toolbar or menu or jump to or interact with the formula scroll area. All you need to do

Re: ScanSnap and VO?

2014-03-08 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Du you mean the interface on the scanner itself or the software interface? -- 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...@googlegro

Re: reordering columns in mail

2014-03-08 Thread Nicholas Parsons
My columns in Classic view are the perfect order, but that doesn't translate across to standard view unfortunately. From what I understand, they can only be re-ordered in classic view, right? If I could reorder them in standard view, whether by TrackPad or keyboard, that would make me so happy.

Re: ScanSnap and VO?

2014-03-08 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Right, thanks for that clarification. I assume you can use it with pretty much any scanning software though, right? So one could just use the hardware with, say, Docuscan Plus, VueScan, Image Capture, Preview, Abby Fine Reader, or Prizmo and it would be accessible, would it not? -- You receive

Accessible and Automated OCR Workflow

2014-03-11 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI list, I get tens if not hundreds of scanned documents at work which have not been OCR-ed. I've been trialling a number of OCR programs recently. I've been really impressed with ABBYY Fine Reader, which seems to produce much better results than Prizmo or even Docuscan Plus. However, manually

Entering Today's Date and Current Time in Numbers in Mavericks

2014-03-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI list, I'm trying to work out whether there are any shortcuts to enter the current date and time in a cell in Numbers. The functions =TODAY() and =NOW() are no good as these update in realtime. I want to enter the current date and time and to have this remain fixed. On iOS it's really easy, a

Re: Entering Today's Date and Current Time in Numbers in Mavericks

2014-03-14 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks for the replies and help! I decided to get adventurous and try the Apple Script solutions I read about (more details below). But yes, it seems funny Apple would take this feature out, but I'm sure it will work it's way back in. After all, iOS has an easy way of entering today's date, so

Re: Accessible and Automated OCR Workflow

2014-03-14 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Keith, Thanks a bunch for that! Just a couple of questions. First, generally, are the tabs significant in Apple Script? I suspect yes but I've never learnt Apple Script so I'm not sure. Second, do you have any idea if ABBYY FineReader is scriptable and could it thus be used instead of PDFPe

Re: free software for solving capchas on mac

2014-03-14 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Rumola is fantastic, but I'm a little bit worried about the privacy issues. What I didn't realise when I first started using it is that it uses real life people to solve the CAPTCHAs for us. I'm not sure if it sends each webpage you open to someone to determine whether there is a CAPTCHA or not,

Re: Entering Today's Date and Current Time in Numbers in Mavericks

2014-03-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Gigi, That's odd your today() function didn't leave a function in the cell. Perhaps because of the cell formatting or something? The behaviour with the now() function, leaving an actual function there, is more the norm as I understand it. From my testing, the now() function will update itsel

Re: free software for solving capchas on mac

2014-03-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, that's right. Rumola still works with the screen curtain turned on, because presumably the people solving the CAPTCHAs are sent a picture of the screen with the screen curtain off. I just wish there was a way to ensure people can't see my screen until I want to solve a CAPTCHA. So that whe

Re: Entering Today's Date and Current Time in Numbers in Mavericks

2014-03-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Gigi, that's a great tip. So I guess command-v pastes the formula and command-shift-v pastes the result of the formula? That's good to remember. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop r

Re: Accessible and Automated OCR Workflow

2014-03-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Keith, Three more questions. 1. What do the following lines do? Do they test whether the file is a text-based or image-based pdf? Do I need to customise any of that stuff (e.g. the MyFile thing), or do I simply copy and paste it as is? set myFile to POSIX path of theFile set theResult to do

Re: Accessible and Automated OCR Workflow

2014-03-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Keith, I now have it working well with Hazel and PDFPen Pro, though I find that PDFPen's results are definitely not as good as ABBYY FineReader's, especially for languages which PDFPen does not support. But having this batch perform OCR on all files in a folder is fantastic, so I'd reall

Re: Accessible and Automated OCR Workflow

2014-03-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Keith, I'll check that out. I am using FineReader Pro. I used the trial version from their website, but now I have bought the version in the Mac App Store. I've heard that FineReader Express produced much poorer results, hence I went with FineReader Pro. Best, Nic -- You received this

Interactive PDF Forms on the Mac

2014-03-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI all, I'm really keen to solve the issue of interactive PDF forms on the Mac. I have bought PDFPen Pro 6 but, unlike Gigi, still cannot get these to work properly. If anyone is using interactive PDF forms successfully, perhaps we would be able to Skype or use Team Viewer or something to see i

Re: Interactive PDF Forms on the Mac

2014-03-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Maybe both these together make the difference, but individually they obviously don't. My MacBook is running Mavericks, and my iMac has 16GB RAM. For what it's worth, I don't notice any lag or anything with the MacBook. I ill eventually upgrade my iMac to Mavericks, so I guess I'll properly test

Re: Accessible and Automated OCR Workflow

2014-03-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I take full responsibility for your purchase. Hope it's giving you good results. I've messaged you off list for that link. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fr

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I used to love Excell, used it all the time, and it was one of the main things I would use Windows for even after getting a Mac. But that has changed with the latest Numbers. I love the latest Numbers more than Excell. Now, to kind of bring this conversation back on topic: One of the things that

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but glad to see you're getting into it and Gigi is helping. The help documentation with Numbers is great. Their formulas and functions help, and the view functions by categories tables, should be all you really need. The Apple Support forums also contain lo

Re: Latest Pages for College/Professional Work

2014-03-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Alex, I've started a new job recently at a law firm where producing professional looking documents with advanced features, and using advanced collaboration, are all key. The industry standard for word processing is Microsoft Word. I've been using Pages on my Mac and so far things have been w

Re: Finding Headings in Pages?

2014-03-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
This is another reasons, Alex, why I prefer reading documents in Word. It would be a big improvement to Pages if they got heading navigation and announcement to work properly. If what Barry says is true, and I have no reason to believe it isn't, then Apple really needs to give headings an HTML

Editing Title and Legends of Charts in Numbers

2014-03-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Does anyone know how to edit the title or legend of a chart in the latest Numbers? I can find the display title and legend checkboxes in the Chart tab of the format inspector, but these items don't seem to show up for VoiceOver. I've tried using the mouse keys to move around the chart to find th

Re: Latest Pages for College/Professional Work

2014-03-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
If you find a way, please let me know. -- 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

Re: Assigning Styles to Hotkeys

2014-03-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Alex, That popup menu shows up in the latest Pages only when you create a new style. To show it for an existing style, you need to press the paragraph styles button, navigate to the table of styles, interact with it, navigate to the style you want, make sure VoiceOver is set to announce what's u

Re: keyboard app?

2014-03-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Type2Phone. -- 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@go

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Gigi, I don't interact with cells to edit their data, but I do need to stop interacting with them once I have finished entering data. Either that, or press return. But pressing return often moves me down one row and to the left, which is a bit odd, so I usually just stop interacting. So what

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
P.S. The only thing I've set up in a Numbers activity is to read most punctuation so that VoiceOver will read negative numbers differently to positive numbers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group an

Re: Calendar and Mavericks Problem

2014-03-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Can't answer your question, as I never use week view. But I suggest trying month view as a work around. For VoiceOver users I can't see what benefit there is to week view. Month view allows you to navigate from day to day and hear the day, date and whether any events are on that day. Just intera

Re: renaming tables in numbers

2014-03-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
This has been discussed on this list before. Anne Robertson gave detailed instructions. Basically, make sure the table name is ticked in the table tab of the format inspector, navigate to cell a1 in the table, turn on mouse keys, press 8 about 30 times, press i three times quickly, turn off mous

Re: Numbers on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Nicholas Parsons
One thing you might like to try to find a particular cell is the filter and sort options. Press VO-shift-\ to jump into the headers. Press VO-down-arrow and VO-up-arrow until you get to the column reference cell, and then select it with VO-space. Navigate until you get to the header of the column

Re: Numbers on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I'm pretty sure you can still edit cells while a filter is active, but I'm not in a position to double check that right now so don't take it as 100% true. The main thing is to use only the arrow keys to navigate. If you use the VO keys as I have often done, you get yourself in all sorts of troub

Numbers | Custom Cell Formats

2014-04-05 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Has anyone had much success playing with custom cell formats in Numbers? They use those token things as in other areas of the OS, and they are a bit tricky with VoiceOver in my experience. I'd really like them to bring out custom popup menu formats, and hopefully they will in a future update, bu

Re: Hazel Discussion

2014-04-06 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Teresa, Automator can create folders which it watches and then performs certain actions if a file is placed in that folder. Hazel is different in that it will perform the action only if the given conditions are met, and these conditions are quite powerful. Moreover, it is easier to setup as

Good News | Auto Complete Options in Safari are Accessible

2014-04-07 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI all, This might be old news for some, but I just discovered that auto complete options are accessible, at least in Safari. I had always assumed they weren't. I don't mean the way in which VoiceOver reads out the main suggestion as you type, and how you can just press return after typing the

Re: retrieving past versions of files from Dropbox

2014-04-09 Thread Nicholas Parsons
There's been times when I've been able to do it, and times when I haven't. I can't remember what OS/Browser/screen reader I was using each time, so not sure what the difference is. Don't have time to look into it right now but when I do I'll report back any findings. Best, Nic -- You received

Re: Hazel Discussion

2014-04-09 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hey Keith, I've only really started dipping my toe in the water with Hazel, Keyboard Maestro and TextExpander. I'm getting use out of all of them, but not as much as you. One thing that I still haven't played with, is getting Hazel to rename files in the way that you mentioned. For instance, h

Re: pages questions

2014-04-11 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Would an alternative to the tab stop method be just to create a table and have one column left aligned and the other right aligned? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: Styles context menu in pages - assigning shortcuts

2014-04-11 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, the fact that they are called buttons was misleading, but the trick of interacting with them is great. I, however, am able to just VO-space on the menu buttons and they work fine--no need for routing mouse cursers or simulating mouse clicks. Best, Nic -- You received this message because

Re: Diary apps for Mac and or iOS

2014-04-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
MacJournal. Not sure whether it has an iOS app, but it's definitely VO friendly and I believe it might have cloud backup. Either that or it uses Dropbox to sync between devices. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe

Re: pages questions

2014-04-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Tables are actually more professional formatting tools; more professional than tabs which were work arounds from the type writer days when tables as we know them didn't exist. Anyway, there's always a learning curve when you use a new OS or new software. I bet you didn't just open Word for the

Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac

2014-04-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The below article mentions that the up-coming Office for Mac has been rebuilt in Cocoa, the Mac's native programming language, so there's a good chance it will have taken advantage of all Apple's built-in accessibility. Here's hoping. http://www.macworld.com/article/2141101/five-interesting-tidb

Re: Tips on Abbyy Fine Reader?

2014-04-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
It's pretty straight forward, Alex. You'll get the hang of it in no time. The only one thing I'd say is that I've often got better results exporting to Word (.docx) format, rather than PDF, at least with more complex documents. FineReader does an amazing job of properly formatting footnotes and

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

2014-04-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
A few additions: You can VO-Space on the format types when exporting; Once you've selected a format, you can simply hit return to trigger the next default button; DocuScan Plus will allow you to view recognised text without needing to save and is great for that purpose, but I don't think FineRead

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

2014-04-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Alex, Once you press command-s (the shortcut to export) you are presented with a choice of file types in a dialog. DOCS is one of these, as is RTF and many more. Once you VO-space on your desired format, just press return to go to the save dialog. As someone said previously, the default forma

Re: Pages improvement

2014-04-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Ann, That's great news about the hotspots and I have been getting a lot of use out of the latest Pages. Setting shortcuts for paragraph styles is so much easier now too. However, the update to the paragraph styles button is a bit of a double edged sword. It seems to always display the same

Re: Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month?

2014-04-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Re deleting events in month view, I've found that VoiceOver has some problems with focus. Keyboard focus and VoiceOver focus seem to get separated, and this results in either not being able to delete an event or deleting the wrong one. I've been able to eventually fix this by using just the arro

Re: Pages improvement

2014-04-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Ann, Yes, using VO-COMMAND-HOTSPOT reports the correct information. It's just if I navigate to the actual paragraph styles button that it reads it incorrectly. But if I interact with the paragraph styles button it reads the correct information, and this is obviously what gets reported by Voi

Changing Tables in Numbers | An Easier Way with My New AppleScript

2014-04-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, I've written an AppleScript to change the name of the selected table in Numbers. Thought I'd share it here for those of you who haven't developed something similar for yourselves. The script works on the table in focus. Most of the time this simply means navigating to the table with Vo

Re: Changing Tables in Numbers | An Easier Way with My New AppleScript

2014-04-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Andrew! NO worries. Probably the easiest thing for you to do is to place the script in: /Library/Scripts/VoiceOver And then set up a keyboard commander in VoiceOver Utility to execute the script. You should be able to place it in the ~/Library/Scripts/ directory, in a subfolder called 'Nu

Re: accessing documents in pages on other apple devices

2014-04-21 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The best way is to save the document in iCloud. So if the document is already on your Mac, just open it, and then choose "Move to..." from the File menu, and then choose to save it in iCloud. Then when you open Pages on your iOS device, you'll see that document in the file browser. Your other as

Re: accessing documents in pages on other apple devices

2014-04-21 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I haven't played with Pages for iOS yet. I really like Numbers on the iPad though. It's great for entering data in a spreadsheet, though I don't use it to create spreadsheets as typing formulas and functions would be a drag. Best, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to t

Re: Where to put Numbers Applescripts?

2014-04-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
To my knowledge, it will never appear in the Services menu, as it is a script not a service. You can enable the scripts menu from the "General" preference pane of the AppleScript Editor utility. The scripts menu then appears in the menu extras menu. To have it appear in the scripts menu, place i

Re: MBraille

2014-04-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Brandon, I use and love mBraille. Here are my tips: Set it to always use "away" layout, table layout is only useful with the iPad, and even then it's no where near as easy as away layout. Turn tutorial mode off, this only seemed to make things difficult for me. Get the pro version, it's defini

Re: Where to put Numbers Applescripts?

2014-04-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yeah, I've been getting a little mixed up because for some reason things aren't working as they should for me. Glad you got it sorted though. FYI, following is the link to the Apple Support page on enabling and using the scripts menu with iWork applications: http://www.iworkautomation.com/script

Help | AppleScript to Change Table Name in Pages

2014-04-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I'm in the process of developing an AppleScript to change the name of tables in Pages. It's not as straight forward as for Numbers for a couple of reasons. However, I've pretty much nailed it down but for one thing. For some reason, tables in Pages seem to be somehow locked or invisible to Appl

Re: Looking for What to Test in 10.9.3

2014-04-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Alex, Not sure if you have the iWork applications, but if you have Numbers, can you please check the following: Select a table, jump to the format inspector, select the Tables radio button, move to the end of the format inspector and interact with the scroll area. Navigate to the various chec

Re: Help | AppleScript to Change Table Name in Pages

2014-04-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
ttom of it and develop a more effective script. Here's the URL: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58683113/Rename%20Tables%20in%20Pages.scpt On 25 Apr 2014, at 4:35 pm, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > I'm in the process of developing an AppleScript to change the name of tables

Shortcut to Speak Word Count in Any application | Here's How It's Done

2014-04-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, Attached is a very simple little AppleScript to speak the word count of the selected text in any application. It's great for TextEdit, Safari, or anywhere you can enter text. It's even easier, in my opinion, than using the word count feature of Pages. Just: download this script; save i

Re: Shortcut to Speak Word Count in Any application | Here's How It's Done

2014-04-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Andrew--glad it's of use. Best, Nic -- 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,

Re: Shortcut to Speak Word Count in Any application | Here's How It's Done

2014-04-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You can get it here. Best, Nic -- 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 t

Re: Shortcut to Speak Word Count in Any application | Here's How It's Done

2014-04-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Scott, you can get it here. -- 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 m

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