Hi Hayden,

Go to http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/books/vogs/
for the VoiceOver Getting Started Guides for Leopard in various formats 
courtesy of Greg Kearney.

>There is a spoken .mp3 manual on vo in leopard.  I keep forgetting where it 
>is though.

David has answered most of your other questions.

>> 2. I notice that the "cut" function appears to be constantly greyed out.
>> Why
>> might this be?

This function is greyed out until you have actually selected text.  Otherwise,
there is nothing to "cut".  Try pressing the Shift key along with movement
command keys to select text.  For example:

command+up arrow          move to beginning of the document
shift+command+up arrow    select to the beginning of the document

command+down arrow        move to the end of the document
shift+command+down arrow  select to the beginning of the document

command+left arrow        move to the beginning of the line
shift+command+left arrow  select to the beginning of the line

command+right arrow       move to the end of the line
shift+command+right arrow select to the end of the line

option+right arrow        move one word to the right
shift+option+right arrow  select one word to the right

option+left arrow         move one word to the left
shift+option+left arrow   select one word to the left

option+up arrow           move to the beginning of the paragraph
shift+option+up arrow     select to the beginning of the paragraph

up arrow                  move up from present position
shift+up arrow            select upward

down arrow                move down from present position
shift+down arrow          select downward

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Esther

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby 
>theblind" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:32 AM
>Subject: Re: miscellaneous queries
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>Hi there,
>Thanks for that. You just reminded me - in a very round about fashion - has
>the voiceover manual for 10.5 been released as a spoken recording like the
>tiger reference as of yet? Or are there any suitable plaseboes?
>Cheers
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
>theblind" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:11 PM
>Subject: Re: miscellaneous queries
>
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>> In the finder, you delet files with command-backspace.
>>
>> If you reinstall the os, windows will be fine.
>>
>> What is superior depends on what you want to do.  There is an accessible
>> spreadsheet called tables which goes a long way toward providing a vo
>> friendly spreadsheet environment which is currently lacking.  What is
>> generic to the os will depend on they system you have but of the ones that
>> are truly generic, I would say that there are none better.  safari is
>> superior to any browser I have used on the Mac.  Mail is awesom and text
>> edit unless you want to get really fancy is the berries.  ITunes does it
>> all
>> and most of it well.  What it doesn't do well, it does not do.
>>
>> You may want to joint eh macvoiceover list on freelists to get some more
>> specific vo feedback and check the archives for both lists.  There are a
>> couple of informative podcasts on blindcooltech and you will benefit from
>> listening to the podcasts at:
>> http://www.screenlessswitchers.com
>> as well as embibing in the info found at:
>> http://www.lioncourt.com
>>
>> Welcome to the Mac and VO and enjoy your journey.  Please let us know how
>> you get on and if we can help, we will.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OSX by
>> theblind" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:34 AM
>> Subject: miscellaneous queries
>>
>>
>> Hi there folks,
>> I've got a big bunch of queries - as a novis mac user transiting from
>> win32 - which I need to clear up:
>> 1. I notice that in my edit menu there is no "delete" function, neitehr is
>> there one in the file menu or anywhere else I'm looking. So, how does one
>> delete files?
>> 2. I notice that the "cut" function appears to be constantly greyed out.
>> Why
>> might this be?
>> 3. If I reinstall my mac partition, will my windows partition installed
>> via
>> bootcamp be removed as well?
>> 4. Are there any essential applications which do not come along with mac
>> which would be useful to have which either have superior functions to the
>> generic applications or make voiceovering a little easier?
>> Cheers,
>> Hayden
>>
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