Speaking of copying text, could somebody please tell me, is there a way to cut and paste in Pages. When I select the text and use the cut command, it says selection deleted, and I can't paste it anywhere else.
Thanks for your help with this. Cheers Paula On 20/12/2011, at 10:24 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > I'll have to try that. I added the shortcut but sometimes selecting with vo > enter fails even after interaction with the area. > > Thanks for the tip though. > On Dec 19, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Dónal, >> >> You can speed this up even more if, after making sure that the "New TextEdit >> Window Containing Selection" option is checked under the Services menu >> option, you also assign this a keyboard shortcut. Then you only need to use >> Command-A to select all and apply your shortcut. You can find the >> instructions to set this up in the archived post I wrote for our list: >> • Re: Selecting a block of text from a website on Lion >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00659.html >> I'm using the shortcut Command-Option-Shift-W for this, and this works to >> send your selected text to TextEdit from any application. An added bonus is >> that it can also be used to read some web sites that are not accessible with >> VoiceOver due to bad HTML coding, since using the Services menu option >> strips out the non-text elements, as a simple copy and paste does not. For >> similar reasons, you can use this to read embedded tables and lists in >> documents in Pages, Nisus Writer Pro, etc. by selecting the page and >> applying the shortcut, since it transforms the embedded material to text, >> and lets VoiceOver read out the table directly. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Dec 19, 2011, at 06:36, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> Ahh Paul, the best solution is usualy the simplest! thanks very much >>> indeed for this. >>> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:30, Paul Hopewell wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Donald, >>>> I do this by selecting all the text in the Safari page and then going to >>>> the menu bar and selecting Safari then Services then Save selected text in >>>> TextEdit WIndow. I can then select the desired text from the TextEdit >>>> window in the normal way. >>>> >>>> Paul Hopewell >>>> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:05, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >>>> >>>>> Folks, >>>>> >>>>> I need to copy large chunks of text from safari. Is there a way to do >>>>> this without interacting with each block of text, selecting it, copying, >>>>> pasting, returning to safari and doing the same thing all over again? >>>>> Dónal Fitzpatrick >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
