MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > I have a couple of issues as regards Openoffice writer. > When I am creating a document, if I were to make a mistake and press the > Backspace key to delete it it just says "Backspace."
What would you like Orca to say? > Is this problem anything to do with my version of Orca which is the one > that comes with Edgy by default or the fact I need to update Openoffice > on my Laptop as when I installed Edgy on it I didn't get chance to get > the latest updates which it was asking for when I first installed Edgy. Running the following commands at the terminal should ensure you have the latest version of OpenOffice.org bundled with Edgy (2.0.4): sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade openoffice* Note the asterisk at the end of the second command (to match multiple OpenOffice.org packages). There is now a newer release of OpenOffice.org (2.1) but it has not yet been packaged for Ubuntu. > For some reason I can track what I am writing with the standard cursor > keys and it is reading what I am typing. What would you like to happen instead? > Also how do you insert a date in a document? In Writer: 1. Put the cursor where you want the date to appear 2. Press alt + i to get to the Insert menu 3. Press d to select the Fields sub-menu 4. Press d to insert a date field There are lots of other fields; some like Time and Page Number are available from the Fields sub-menu. But if you want to insert a more obscure field: 1. Put the cursor where you want the date to appear 2. Press ctrl + F2 to open the fields dialog 3. Select your field of choice 4. Press alt + i to insert it -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
