Hi Harry,
I'll try to answer your questions although some of this has already
been covered.
1. When reading/editing text in TE, think like this, if you've
passed over a word/character from left to right, then the cursor is
sitting at the right of whatever you've passed over. Therefore,
pressing the "Delete" key will remove anything just to the left of
it. conversely, moving right to left, the cursor will be sitting
just to the left of whatever was just read to you. When inserting
something,, remember which direction you're coming from and place the
cursor accordingly. You are correct that it is probably your JAWS
experience that is confusing the issue. I had the opposite problem
as I was a Mac user first and a JAWS user second. It took me quite a
while and frustration to learn how JAWS dealt with things and as a
matter of interest, I prefer the Mac as it seems more logical to me.
My opinion of course.
2. Closing/Saving stuff in TextEdit. One thing to note is that for
the most part, expecially in applicaitons, closing a Window only
closes the window or document, not the complete application. That
is, if you close a TE document using cmd+w or File menu and Close,,
you still have the TE application open whereas Quitting the
application will Close and Quit it. When doing either, if you have
not already saved your changes, you will be asked to do so. the
default choice is to save it so pressing "Return" will save it
automatically. If the document has never been saved before, then a
dialog will appear giving you options for where to save it and what
name to give it. You can also navigate through "Do you Waant to
Save" dialogs using VO then pressing VO keys+space on the choice you
wish to apply.
3. i suggest you save any documents and quit all aps before logging
off or shutting down. this is just good computing practice and is
far safer than relying on your OS to remember that this wasn't done
and therefore asking you just before logging off or shutting down.
Hope this helps some. Keep the questions coming though, we're here
to help.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
