Thanks Esther, Tim too for supplying the help page. I learned what I know from Felix. Felix didn't know about the short cut keys either.
Cheers, janet _________________________________ i'm EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood ---------------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Keeping an App permanently in the Doc > Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:31:08 -1000 > To: [email protected] > > Hi Janet, > > I just wanted to make a few additions and comments to your > instructions for keeping an app that you opened in the Dock: > > You wrote: >> To keep and app in the Doc: >> >> open app, that puts it temporarily in the doc. use control option >> d (vo d) to go to the doc. Then use left-right arrows to go the >> the app icon. Once on the app icon, use control option shift m (vo >> shift m) to open the pull down menu. use the down arrow to find >> the option for keeping the app in doc. escape key, if you're just >> looking at an app's options in doc and don't want to change anything. > > For faster menu navigation, type "K" instead of using the arrow keys > to find the "Keep in Dock" option. For Leopard, according to what > I've heard, you can also use this kind of type-ahead to go to > applications in the Dock (e.g., type the first two letters of iTunes, > "I T" to go there; type "GA" to go to GarageBand, "TE" for TextEdit, > etc.). > > Your instructions are the easy way to put applications (permanently) > in the Dock, but for anything else that you want to put in the Dock > with VoiceOver -- a Downloads folder, file, folder, server, or webloc > file that can point to a URL -- the only accessible way I know of is > to use the Automator action that can be downloaded from Tim Kilburn's > web page for putting items into the Dock. This works under both > Tiger and Leopard: > > http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html > > Cheers, > > Esther >
