Re: lables compatible in pages?

2016-09-06 Thread Phil Halton
Printing sheets of labels is accomplished in the contacts program although it is fairly convoluted and I can't tell you the steps this point i'm not sure about pages and labels though it may be possible to do so. Sent from my IPhone > On Sep 6, 2016, at 6:38 PM, zoe fiogkos wrote: > > Hi guy

Re: My command Key sometimes does not work

2016-09-07 Thread Phil Halton
It sounds to me like you don't have anything selected or copied in order for copy and paste to actually work. You will probably find that those commands are grayed out in the menus and won't work because there's nothing copied or selected for the commands to work with. Sent from my IPhone > O

TeamSpeak 3 connections dialog

2014-01-25 Thread Phil Halton
I tried using the TeamSpeak 3 client tonight after installing and updating to the accessible beta version 3.14 with QT5. All looked well until I tried to enter an address in the connect dialog. I found that it was not possible to enter text into the various edit boxes for address, nickname, pa

Re: vmware fusion, linux and orca key

2014-01-27 Thread Phil Halton
VMWare can remap one of the keys to produce an insert key. I imagine that's the way to go as I don't imagine you can run sharp keys in Lynux. On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > Hello, > If anyone out there is running linux on vmwaare, what are you using for the > orca key. If I

Re: using Garabe Band 10 and Apple Loops

2014-01-30 Thread Phil Halton
the problem may be that you do have the latest version of GB. I think Mike's podcasts were done with the previous version which, as I hear, acts a lot differently for the newer VErsion. On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Scott Berry wrote: > Hey there, > > I have listened to HTB's podcasts on Gara

Re: Continued Fusion difficulties

2014-02-02 Thread Phil Halton
I command tab back and forth betweenmac and Fusion. When in fusion, if there's a focus issue, I first make sure I'm not interacting with the fusion toolbar, then I VO right arrow as far as I can go in fusion, then press the windows screen reader say line command, or tab several times until I

Re: question about VMware fusion on new MBA

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Halton
Its more than just a matter of getting yelled at, or microsoft taking umbrage, Windows will become deactivated and unusable if you just transfer the Vm file to another machine. When you move the VM, you must answer "move", when you are asked y Fusion if you want to do a move or copy of the VM

Re: question about VMware fusion on new MBA

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Halton
that's true, microsoft will see the new installation and deactivate the copy. On Feb 5, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Vivianna wrote: > I have the software copy of windows 7 as well as the key written down. > someone told me that i won't be able to use that same key on a second > machine. hmmm? > > Viv

Re: Where can I find the recently added playlist in iTunes?

2014-02-17 Thread Phil Halton
select "music", then select the playlists radio button. it is located in the table of playlists. On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > The subject says it all? > Where is this thing to be? It would be so useful. > Thanks. > > Lisette > > -- > You received this message beca

Re: Where can I find the recently added playlist in iTunes?

2014-02-18 Thread Phil Halton
idebar". If you see "hide sidebar", then you have iTunes set to look like the old iTunes, and you need to go further down in the sources table to playlists. a little further down and you'll find the recently added list. On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote:

Re: Where can I find the recently added playlist in iTunes?

2014-02-18 Thread Phil Halton
look for it in the source table back in the ol iTunes view. its there a few entries down under playlists. On Feb 18, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi Phil, > I did have iTunes set to look like the old iTunes, so I changed it to have > the pop up buttons. Still no lu

Re: How to do a Jaws key+page down on macbook air with bootcamp?

2014-02-19 Thread Phil Halton
I believe page down is accomplished with function key plus down arrow, not right arrow. On Feb 19, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Jared wrote: > I have a 11 inch Macbook air running bootcamp with Windows 8.1 and jaws. When > I attempt to use jaws key+page down to read the status bar by hitting > capslock

Re: switching back to windows.

2014-02-23 Thread Phil Halton
Man! you just knew this would get a thread going. Personally, I use both Mac and Windows in a VM, both have their attractions and strong points. I don't like the rather screwy accessibility breakage I'm seeing on the Mac, and I also don't like microsofts changing interfaces (e.g.. windows7 to wi

Re: how to clean vmware virtual disk?

2014-02-28 Thread Phil Halton
First, shut down the VM, then go into the general settings for the VM (command E and select the general button). arrow right and you'll come to a total size field with the size of your VM file, followed by a clean up VM button. to see how much disk space you can reclaim by cleaning, keep right

Is Mavericks now worth upgrading from ML,

2014-02-28 Thread Phil Halton
With the latest updates to Mavericks, has it become a net gain to upgrade from ML, or are they on parity still? ML works great for me with my fusion VM of window7. I don't want to upgrade and screw things up including my MacMail/Gmail setup , and also have to upgrade fusion if there's not a net

Re: license software question for a clean install

2014-03-02 Thread Phil Halton
not that it's any help to you now, but it's always a good, no, make that a great idea, to keep a copy of the license key along with the installer somewhere safe, like in dropbox. I think your only options now are to look in the "about" dialog, or contact the seller and ask for your key. On Mar

Re: good article on clean install of OSX

2014-03-02 Thread Phil Halton
so, then you would press and hold command R at boot up and then turn on VO inside the recovery partition. next, use disk utility and erase the Mac HD, and finally what, exit and reboot into the USB installer? What would the steps be exactly after having created the USB installer using the recove

New Mavericks user

2014-03-02 Thread Phil Halton
Well, I just did an upgrade install (not a clean install) from ML, and everything seems to have gone as smooth as warm milk through a puppy. I'm writing this from the mavericks mail and I don't see any problems with my Gmail account or any other problems that I've heard about. I've fired up VM w

Re: New Mavericks user

2014-03-02 Thread Phil Halton
confirmation. > Has this ever happened on your end? >> On Mar 2, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> Well, I just did an upgrade install (not a clean install) from ML, and >> everything seems to have gone as smooth as warm milk through a puppy. >> I'm w

Re: Syncing Question

2014-03-02 Thread Phil Halton
Select your device from within iTunes main window not from the preferences of iTunes. Then select the music tab and going to the scroll area in there you'll find checkboxes to update all or sync all music versus selected music you have to figure it out but it's pretty self-explanatory in there.

Re: I have one more problem today

2014-03-04 Thread Phil Halton
Hey Jessica, Think you might want to be a little more specific? Just Saying, like what OS are you running for starters, exactly what's happening and so forth? I lost my crystal ball when I moved last month. On Mar 3, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Jessica wrote: > hi, > i am using list view in finder. it a

Pages for Mavericks users

2014-03-04 Thread Phil Halton
I was under the impression that Pages was free for Mavericks OS? But, I see that it's $19.99 in the app store. Did I miss something or was I just dreaming? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and sto

Extraneous chatter from VO

2014-03-04 Thread Phil Halton
Since upgrading to Mavericks last night, VO keeps saying "Macintosh HD Volume group" as I navigate around the system, and when I'm in apps like Mail. I thought maybe the mouse was parked on the desktop Mac HD volume, or was landing there and it was set to speak whats under the mouse, but not the

Re: Pages for Mavericks users

2014-03-05 Thread Phil Halton
Yep, I bought my MBA in late august 2013 - oh well. On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:49 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > If you buy a new Mac capable of running Mavericks anytime after September > 2013, you get iWork free. If your computer is Mavericks-capable, but was > purchased before that date, you are out of

Re: Extraneous chatter from VO

2014-03-05 Thread Phil Halton
VO-f2-f2 (Window Chooser) to see if > there's an app dialog causing this. Sometimes, when something like Adobe > Reader wants to update itself, this sort of behaviour occurs. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Phi

Re: REBOOTING AND SHUTTING DOWN WITHOUT CONFIRMATION

2014-03-06 Thread Phil Halton
Press restart in the apple menu while holding down the option key. this will bypass the confirmation screen. This works with shutdown and sleep as well. On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Scott Berry wrote: > HOW DO I REBOOT AND SHUT DOWN WITHOUT CONFIRMATION? > > SCOTT > > -- > You received t

Re: trying to install fusion

2014-03-07 Thread Phil Halton
I have an I7 2.5 ghz chip on my 2013 MBA and assigned one core to windows7. I didn’t realize their were 4 virtual cores available. Are you saying I can bump the cores assignment up to 2 and still be using only half of capacity? BTW: I’m not experiencing any lag time in windows7 with the 1 core -

Fusion, mapping an insert key on laptop keyboard

2014-03-08 Thread Phil Halton
Currently I'm using sharpkeys to remap the grave accent key on my MBA to the caps lock key and vice versa, for use as a jaws modifier key in windows7. I want to eliminate sharp keys and have fusion map grave accent to the insert key. I've done this before but forgot the procedure. I think its:

Re: Fusion, mapping an insert key on laptop keyboard

2014-03-09 Thread Phil Halton
d-remapping-keys-your-macs-keyboard-enhance-voiceover-experience >> >> Take care, >> Shannon Gerdts >> >> -Original Message- From: Phil Halton >> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 1:47 PM >> To: Macvisionaries >> Subject: Fusion, mapping an insert ke

Re: Virtual machine help

2014-03-09 Thread Phil Halton
You're exactly right, OSX doesn't pass the caps lock key to the windows VM. The workaround is to remap another key on the keyboard to act as a caps lock or insert key. Many people remap the grave accent key (above the left tab key and below the escape key) to caps lock. This can be done several

Re: Fusion, mapping an insert key on laptop keyboard

2014-03-09 Thread Phil Halton
gain. If Mac had an insert key, you wouldn't need to do the mapping at > all! > >> On 9 Mar 2014, at 13:25, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> david, can you be specific? For example, there is no insert key on a >> MacBookAir, or any of the portable keyboards, so how do you

Re: Virtual machine help

2014-03-09 Thread Phil Halton
ate to this thread, >>> I'd like to thank those for showing us this awesome tip. It may just >>> encourage those who were discouraged previously, myself included, to >>> re-visit Fusion again. >>> >>> Regards Chris >>> >>> Clap along

Re: A fantastic little tip for Vmware Fusion

2014-03-10 Thread Phil Halton
it is strange that chris seems to be taking credit for this as it has been discussed at length in the last few days, and others here have made this information known. I have to assume he hasn't seen the other threads and somehow came upon this on his own. At any rate, Chris has found a new wr

Re: Virtual machine help

2014-03-10 Thread Phil Halton
along if you feel like a room without a roof! > > On 10/03/2014 00:08, Phil Halton wrote: >> Hello Cathrine, >> >> I encountered the same problem of getting stuck in the combo box. I found a >> way to do the remapping of any key in the "to" combo box to the

Re: A fantastic little tip for Vmware Fusion

2014-03-10 Thread Phil Halton
Sorry, thanks for the heads up Kawal. Where are you from? Kawal is not a name that identifies gender here in Massachusetts at least. . On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > I am feemale. > >> On 10 Mar 2014, at 02:48 pm, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> it

Re: Instructions for remapping keys using VMware Fusion 4/5

2014-03-10 Thread Phil Halton
These procedures are not screenreader specific. They are only meant to show you how to map and insert key into windows from the Mac side. I don't know what window eyes uses but it must you some kind of modifier key. Jaws happens to use the insert key or caps lock. As does NVDA. However, Mac doe

Re: Correction Re: A fantastic little tip for Vmware Fusion

2014-03-10 Thread Phil Halton
These instructions are correct, concise, and definitely worth keeping around. Thanks Chris. Sent from my IPhone > On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:08 PM, chris wrote: > > Correction below. > Regards Chris > Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof! > >> On 10 Mar 2014, at 13:02, christopher ha

Fusion draining my battery

2014-03-11 Thread Phil Halton
Yesterday, for the first time ever, my MBA battery went to 10% before the end of the day. Usually I finish the day with 60 - 70% remaining. Turns out, VM Fusion is listed in the battery menu as using significant amounts of energy. Using activity monitor I see that it is using average energy of

Re: Fusion draining my battery

2014-03-11 Thread Phil Halton
close fusion when not in > use to save battery power? > On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > >> Yesterday, for the first time ever, my MBA battery went to 10% before the >> end of the day. Usually I finish the day with 60 - 70% remaining. Turns out, >>

Calendar in iOS

2014-03-12 Thread Phil Halton
Has anyone noticed a problem calendar? It seems to of been changed again so that now there's no list feature. We used to be able to just press search and that would bring up the list, but now there's a list button which doesn't seem to work, and the search button does not bring up the list anymo

Re: Calendar in iOS

2014-03-12 Thread Phil Halton
gt; On Mar 12, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> Has anyone noticed a problem calendar? It seems to of been changed again so >> that now there's no list feature. We used to be able to just press search >> and that would bring up the list, but now there

Re: Calendar in iOS

2014-03-12 Thread Phil Halton
n also view today's events in the notifications center. >> On Mar 12, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> Yes, but it used to work so that only days with events would show up not >> every week of the month. >> >> Sent from my IPhone >> >&g

Pages tutorial

2014-03-12 Thread Phil Halton
Can anyone give me details about the pages tutorial offered by and Robertson? Thanks Sent from my IPhone -- 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 macvi

Re: Fusion draining my battery

2014-03-13 Thread Phil Halton
Wow! Can't get nothing past you! On Mar 12, 2014, at 9:38 PM, Keith Watson wrote: > Phil, > > I had been having this issue as well. I am trying to follow your instructions > below but am having an issue. I can find the control key and the option key > and the po

Re: free software for solving capchas on mac

2014-03-14 Thread Phil Halton
The webvisum extension for Firefox in the Windows platform works great and is free. One more reason why not to ditch windows totally. Sent from my IPhone > On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > No dice. For the moment, we're screwed. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only comput

Lost dropbox notifications

2014-03-17 Thread Phil Halton
under Mountain Lion, when I opened the lid of my MBA in the morning, I used to hear a notification saying x files were updated in my dropbox folder. (I run a file migration system at night). Now under Mavericks, I no longer get that notification. Is it a mavericks thing? I checked that I do have

Re: Upgrading Vmware Fusion

2014-03-17 Thread Phil Halton
Hi Chris, let us know if you find any advantage in upgrading as far as performance and such is concerned. I run windows7 64bit as well running fusion V5.4 on mavericks. On Mar 17, 2014, at 12:26 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote: > Hi all > I have done my first application upgrade on this mac,

Re: Lost dropbox notifications

2014-03-17 Thread Phil Halton
why would I do that? Are you saying to exit dropbox from its menu or uninstall it, then reinstall it? On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:01 AM, isaac wrote: > Have you closed dropbox and then reinstalling it? > On Mar 17, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > >> under Mountain Lion, wh

Re: More seamless vs more isolated on VM virtual machine

2014-03-17 Thread Phil Halton
changing the integration won't affect those problems. perhaps look into the global short cut key preferences in fusion settings. I cammand tab back and forth between Mac and Windows all the time, and I can turn VO on and off regardless of the VM state. It must be something in your global shortcu

Rmote desktop?

2014-03-18 Thread Phil Halton
I have two macs, an MBA and a iMac. I would like to be able to control the iMac from the MBA, view its desktop, run apps, etc. Is this possible? Where do I begin looking for information on setting up this sort of activity? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-19 Thread Phil Halton
Bogus! I’m really trying to love my mac, but things like this are why windows/office suite are still indispensable for anyone doing serious accounting or spreadsheeting of any kind. On Mar 19, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > As far as I know, such a key combination does not exist in n

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-19 Thread Phil Halton
h folks have praised it to the sky. > I run a business using Numbers, and I use it more than I ever did Excel. Just > a personal opinion, you understand, and I know that I may be in the minority, > but that doesn't bother me in the least. > > Gigi > >> On Mar

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-21 Thread Phil Halton
Honestly? If that's so, and you were a fan of excel, then maybe I'll give it a try. Is there a good help system for numbers where I can read up on it and get answers? I guess I like excel because I've used it for years with JAWS which is highly tuned to work with excel. How is it working with f

Re: navigating in the latest version of numbers

2014-03-21 Thread Phil Halton
I can see > with spreadsheet as big as yours, you would've had a lot of problems using > it. I will say that I haven't yet gotten a sheet with 100 rows yet so I can't > yet speak to that. I will by the end of the year get one that big and will > find out for myself on

Re: Latest Pages for College/Professional Work

2014-03-21 Thread Phil Halton
it'll probably do fine for your limited needs. as far as format checking, you can set VO to announce format changes and use that to format check the document. I just bought pages after being a die hard MS word/JAWS user. I still am, but I'm looking into Pages and it looks like it'll do a fair jo

renaming tables in numbers

2014-03-25 Thread Phil Halton
I can't find any reliable way to rename a table in numbers under mavericks. I know the help system says to triple click on the table name, but I can't always get the mouse onto the table name. when I navigate to the table in the sheet area, then route the mouse, triple clicking usually lands me

Re: renaming tables in numbers

2014-03-25 Thread Phil Halton
I wonder why I couldn't find Anne's tip in the Mail-archive. Oh well, I did the following for a consistent means of renaming a table. 1) route mouse to cell A1. 2) turn on mouse keys and press numrow 8 ((mouse up) 25 times. When VO is set to announce why is under the mouse, you will "a referenc

Re: renaming tables in numbers

2014-03-26 Thread Phil Halton
ore. On Mar 26, 2014, at 12:13 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > This explanation is for exactly that. On a laptop keyboard, when MouseKeys > is active, the 7, 8, 9; u, i, o; j, k, l; and m, comma and period act as your > NumPad. So, as Phil mentioned, the "i" key would b

Re: renaming tables in numbers

2014-03-27 Thread Phil Halton
Thanks Tim, Clear as a bell! Seems a long way to go for something that should be straight-forward, but that's okay, I'm keeping a mail folder exclusively for iWork tips like this. On Mar 26, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Phil, > > I've found that it i

Re: dropbox and ML

2014-03-28 Thread Phil Halton
There's no hard and fast rule. If you make regular clones of your Mac's HD, then storing things in the documents folder would be fine and would probably preclude the need for drop box. Personally, I put everything in DB and use it to share between OSX and Windows7 VM. I also use a homegrown aut

Re: dropbox and ML

2014-03-28 Thread Phil Halton
Wow! Wouldn't that be nice. I don't think it's the case though. If you find out otherwise, please let us know. On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > I thought you could retrieve histories of documents in DB? > > On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:0

keeping old GarageBand version after Upgrading to V10

2014-03-29 Thread Phil Halton
Is it possible to upgrade to GB V10 from V6.0.5 and still be able to use V6.0.5? I ask because I see that upgrading to Mavericks automatically upgraded iMovie, while putting the older version in a folder of its own, presumably for using both versions. GB did not get the same treatment and I stil

Re: dropbox version history

2014-03-29 Thread Phil Halton
That's great, thanks! Have you tried looking through previous versions? Is it accessible? How does it work for you? I almost never use the website interface because I used to find it kind of clunky. But, now I'll go take a look at it again. Sent from my IPhone > On Mar 29, 2014, at 6:09 PM,

Re: keeping old GarageBand version after Upgrading to V10

2014-03-29 Thread Phil Halton
670 ext. 4 > > > > >> On Mar 29, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> Is it possible to upgrade to GB V10 from V6.0.5 and still be able to use >> V6.0.5? I ask because I see that upgrading to Mavericks automatically >> upgraded iMovie, while put

Re: Latest updates for Safari & Numbers

2014-04-01 Thread Phil Halton
I'm a little reluctant to try the numbers upgrade because of just started using numbers 3.1 and getting familiar with it. I don't really know enough about it to know if the upgrade will help or hurt. I suspect it'll be fine though. As far as the new Safari goes I think you mean 7.0.3 not 7.3,

Re: Waking up a virtual machine

2014-04-02 Thread Phil Halton
Bill, I have the same setup as you, win7-64 in fusion on a MBA. First, do you have windows power management set to hibernate or go to sleep after a certain time, like after an hour? I have mine set to never sleep. second, when I'm finished with windows I suspend it from Fusion toolbar. that pr

Re: Stability of the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Phil Halton
That's my opinion as well, I still make extensive use of spreadsheet and word processing applications beyond the basic uses and that's just not possible with numbers or pages on the IOS platforms. On Apr 2, 2014, at 1:35 AM, Maria and Joe Chapman wrote: > Hi. I find that an iPhone or iPad d

Re: Numbers on the Mac

2014-04-03 Thread Phil Halton
I was a numbers skeptic for a long time. I've always used Excel, and use it still in a windows VM. But I bought numbers two weeks ago and am now in the process of transferring my most sophisticated spreadsheets from excel over to numbers. In a lot of ways numbers is superior to excel. It certai

Re: Numbers on the Mac

2014-04-03 Thread Phil Halton
types like charts and such. On Apr 3, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hey Phil. > Have you been able to edit a chart's data with VO in numbers? > > Matt Dierckens > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com > 1-877-774-7670 ext

Re: Numbers on the Mac

2014-04-03 Thread Phil Halton
o this but I can't grasp how to do it and it is too much work. > This is the only thing that I have found that is not better than Excel in my > opinion. > Max > > On 4 Apr 2014, at 1:19 am, Phil Halton wrote: > >> I was a numbers skeptic for a long time. I've

Re: Numbers on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Phil Halton
This is a much better way of filtering/searching than I had previously mentioned - I didn't know about the headers via vo shift backslash. It reminds me a lot of the way you can choose the filters in excel. Also, once selected, you can tweak the filter in the formatter to allow greater latitude

Table naming issues in numbers

2014-04-05 Thread Phil Halton
I have been looking into AppleScript since someone posted an article on iWork automation recently and I see that it is possible to bypass the table naming issue in numbers by setting the name property of a table with simple AppleScript that can be written, compiled, and run from the AppleScript

Identifying formatting characteristics of text with VO

2014-04-06 Thread Phil Halton
I'm doing more work with text in Pages and Numbers now and would like to know how I can identify the format of text. Using JAWS with Office suite, there is a keystroke that gives all the format info you'd ever want about the selected text (insert + F). Is there anything similar on the Mac side?

Re: Identifying formatting characteristics of text with VO

2014-04-06 Thread Phil Halton
ww.appletothecore.info > > On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > >> I'm doing more work with text in Pages and Numbers now and would like to >> know how I can identify the format of text. Using JAWS with Office suite, >> there is a keystroke that gi

retrieving past versions of files from Dropbox

2014-04-06 Thread Phil Halton
According to dropbox help, you can retrieve past versions of files (for 30 days, or unlimited with Packrat feature), but I can't seem to work it out. There's supposed to be a item in a files context menu (on website), but I can't find anything that looks like prior versioning. Has anyone success

Re: Experience Switching to Mac

2014-04-06 Thread Phil Halton
Personally, I'm still having a tough time with word processing on the Mac. I want to like and use pages, but I can't figure out styles and formatting using pages. I still haven't found anything that compares with MS office and JAWS for writing and formatting documents. JAWS really does work well

Re: Repairing permissions.

2014-04-07 Thread Phil Halton
I'm pretty sure you need to do the repair from the recovery partition, and not from the main OSX partition, in order to do a proper job of it. . On Apr 7, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Gabriele Battaglia wrote: > Hi all. > > What shall I do, when permissions seem to not be reparable? > > On my new iMac2

Re: getting started with garageband

2014-04-07 Thread Phil Halton
Is it still the case thatVO doesn't announce the beat/bar information like it did in V6.0.5? How are people getting around this problem? That seems to me to be a major setback when trying to edit or work with regions in GB. On Apr 7, 2014, at 1:28 AM, CJ Daniel wrote: > Hi, > > Hit return,

Printing envelopes on the Mac - Pages?

2014-04-08 Thread Phil Halton
Addressing and Printing envelopes is easily done in MS Word/JAWS. Is there a VO friendly way to do the same on the Mac, in Pages perhaps? A lack of that ability would be a real show stopper in my attempts to use Pages for my day-to-day word processing needs. -- You received this message becau

Pages envelope printing - margins

2014-04-08 Thread Phil Halton
I used the Classic Envelope template in Pages to print out a standard #10 envelope. The first four characters of each return address line were lost in what appears to be a half inch margin at the left side of the envelope. I couldn't find anyway to remove that margin, so my solution was to move

Re: Pages envelope printing - margins

2014-04-09 Thread Phil Halton
r the numbers > but I have seen a business envelope there for pages. > Jim > > On Apr 8, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > >> I used the Classic Envelope template in Pages to print out a standard #10 >> envelope. The first four characters of each return address li

Re: statusbar in 10.9.2 mavericks

2014-04-09 Thread Phil Halton
For a while, it was necessary to option click on the dropbox icon to get access to the preferences from the context menu. other app icons also require some creative clicking to access them. I don't know the why or wherefore of all this, I just know to try various clicks on the icons that aren't

Re: retrieving past versions of files from Dropbox

2014-04-09 Thread Phil Halton
Just today I brought up the context menu on a file in my dropbox and, wouldn't you know, there was a menu option for retrieving past versions. I gave it a cursory look, but didn't put much time into it. I don't recall if i was in windows or MacOSX at the time either, but it looks like the dropb

Styles context menu in pages - assigning shortcuts

2014-04-09 Thread Phil Halton
I spent some time today trying to figure out the styles procedures in Pages. After reading the help files extensively, I tried to locate the context menu for the styles in the paragraph styles table of the styles popup and here's what I found. by setting VO to speak text under the mouse with a

Re: getting started with garageband

2014-04-10 Thread Phil Halton
you have to first set the Bar and beat indicators to the exact position in the song where you want to insert the loop. I haven't used the new GB for much, but I've looked through it and the controls to set the bar/beat are in that control toolbar. On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:18 AM, Venkatesh Potluri

Re: Styles context menu in pages - assigning shortcuts

2014-04-10 Thread Phil Halton
On Apr 10, 2014, at 2:01 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Phil, > > You seem to be making life hard for yourself. > > First of all, I would recommend that you have your mouse set to ignore the > other cursors. Then, set the delay to zero for speaking what's under

Re: Styles context menu in pages - assigning shortcuts

2014-04-10 Thread Phil Halton
That sounds interesting Anne. Could you send the details of your training sessions, website, etc, I'd like to give them a try. On Apr 10, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Phil, > > We don't sell our training materials outside our courses, they come as

Re: weird prompt to update software

2014-04-12 Thread Phil Halton
I'm getting the same notification and I don't know what it is either. I am assuming it is something from Apple, but that's probably a bad assumption On Apr 12, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > For some time now, I've been getting a weird prompt to install a software > upda

Re: pages questions

2014-04-12 Thread Phil Halton
I'm in the same boat Jim, but I realize that there's going to be a learning curve with Pages. Until I get up to speed, I'm going to be spending a lot of time figuring out the little things. Nick's suggestion is a classic workaround that I've come to accept more and more. I'm not going to use any

Re: Time Machine or what

2014-04-14 Thread Phil Halton
If you go the SuperDuper route, and you want the ability to use your external drive as a bootable drive - something I do - the drive will have to have Firewire connectivity. You can't boot from a USB drive as far as I know. I use the LaCie drives, they're good product and you can get them in f

Re: scanning within a vm

2014-04-14 Thread Phil Halton
I know this isn't an answer to your question, but if you need a good scanning solution for the Mac, ABBYY FineReader Pro works flawlessly and supports myriad scanners. For around $150 for a epson scanner (or numerous other low-cost scanners), and $90 or so for FR Pro, you can be up and running

Re: scanning within a vm

2014-04-14 Thread Phil Halton
ption, but it still doesn't offer all > the stuff k1000 does, like bookmarking, etc. > > Thanks for any help or suggestions, > Cait > >> On Apr 14, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> I know this isn't an answer to your question, but if you need

Re: Time Machine or what

2014-04-14 Thread Phil Halton
is is > not Microsoft smile. > > Regards Chris > > Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof! > >> On 14/04/2014 13:53, Phil Halton wrote: >> If you go the SuperDuper route, and you want the ability to use your >> external drive as a bootable drive -

Re: Color me impressed with Fine Reader

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Halton
Welcome to the fold my child ;-) ;-) On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote: > Thanks for the heads up on Abbyy Fine reader. I just took the plunge and > bought it and wow, easy to use and fast, intuitive as well. > > I'm using it with a Cannon scanner that we just bought via the A

Re: accessing the vm

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Halton
I use full screen almost exclusively and have no focus issues worth mentioning. I only use that mode because when switching back and forth between mac and windows in non full-screen mode, the VM window stays on top and I like to see the mac desktop (to the extent I can, which ain't much). Full s

Re: How to select, copy and paste audio within a Garageband project?

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Halton
I used to do this all the time in V6.0.5, and I recall that it involved splitting regions with the split command, and also having the mouse track the vo cursor. GB doesn't recognize that a region is selected just because VO says it is. GB requires that the region be "clicked" in order to select

Re: Color me impressed with Fine Reader

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Halton
er? Also can I use it with a Zoom X > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 15, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Phil Halton wrote: >> >> Welcome to the fold my child ;-) ;-) >> >>> On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Jenine Stanley >>> wrote: >>> >

Re: Tips on Abbyy Fine Reader?

2014-04-16 Thread Phil Halton
The only oddity I have noticed using FR Pro is that, when I press the button to scan to whatever document format I choose, and the scanning dialog appears, my scanner (epson perfection V33) does a once-over of the document. That is, it immediately scans over the page and then stops. I then have

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

2014-04-17 Thread Phil Halton
I use a compatible scanner, there are lots of them, and after scanning, FR Pro recognizes the scanned pages and then opens a save dialog. I save the pages using the default file name "untitled", and then the document opens in textedit where I can read the doc. I have the format set to RTF and th

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

2014-04-20 Thread Phil Halton
Just when I was getting good at the old way... You beat me to it! I was looking into writing something similar, but got sidetracked - thanks for this. On Apr 20, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Thanks, Andrew! NO worries. Probably the easiest thing for you to do is to > place the

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