yes, we could discover that we can do envelopes and labels with text edit. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:41 PM Subject: Re: text edit
Hi Cara, Thanks for the instructions on choosing color in TextEdit. I played around with a few of the settings before trying to answer Dan, and was able to get colors selected, but not easily. Of course, I was also trying to press the "Choose Color" button <smile>. I always feel that TextEdit has much more power than we're using, and would love to find a guide to some of its lesser used features. Have you tried formatting text using styles or saving your selections of font, line spacing, alignment, and formatting selections, etc. as customized styles that you can switch to? You can obviously change default font sizes in the user preferences (Command-comma), but you can also predefine style settings with fonts and formatting and switch to these (buttons need VO-H to hear their functions). Again, this isn't something that I've played with much, except to create a style for someone who needed certain large font families, but it seems like it has a lot of formatting potential. Thanks again. Cheers, Esther On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Cara Quinn wrote: > Esther, Dan, et al; > > There is a completely accessible way to work with color in > TextEdit. Actually there are two and possibly more. > > When you first select text whose color you'd like to change, and > then go to the format menu followed by font, you'll find the option > to show colors. > > Once this window comes up, you'll be presented with a very large > number of options, not only in colors, but in the way colors are > displayed and worked with. In other words, in the tool bar, you'll > see choices for displaying colors as a pallet, sliders, crayons, > etc. The two most accessible options I've found are sliders or > crayons. With these, it's possible for a VO user to choose specific > and precise colors. > > In the crayon view, the window will appear as if you're seeing a > box of crayons so to speak. VO will see each crayon as a radio > button and its color name will be read. So, by clicking on the > appropriate crayon with VO space or whatever method you like, you > can set the color of the selected text. One important thing to > note, that I've found, is this; once you choose your color, DO NOT > CLICK THE PICK COLOR BUTTON! This for me at least, has caused VO to > read strangely at times. In order to choose the color, simply click > close in the window after you choose your color, and all will be > well. :) > > Now, the other way I've found which is easy, to choose color, is > with the color sliders. There are a few options here that I won't > go into, and for this discussion, they can be safely ignored. > > Essentially, you'll be presented with a much less complex window > than the crayons window, which will contain three sliders and three > edit fields. Each edit field corresponds to one of the three > sliders. I.E. the slider is set to a percentage, and the edit > field next to it shows the exact color value. > > So the sliders are for red, green, and blue. By setting these you > can change the color of the selected text in your document. You can > either interact with the sliders and move them with VO, or simply > type specific values in the edit fields and the sliders will move > accordingly. Also, your color choice will show up in the color well > next to the 'choose color' button with it's appropriate text name. > > As before, rather than clicking the 'choose color' button, simply > close the window and your text should show up as the color you chose. > > HOpe this helps and please do have a wonderful day!… > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn
