Hello Sean, To understand text navigation on the Mac, you need to picture a line being drawn between two characters. This is the insertion point. The insertion point moves from left to right of a character as you press the right arrow, and from right to left as you press the left arrow. When the insertion point is to the right of a character, the backspace will delete that character.
To me, this is perfectly logical, but I've never used Windows. Cheers, Anne On 17 Aug 2011, at 12:08, Sean Murphy wrote: > Hi All. > > This is a basic question. But it is doing my head in. > > When you move by character or word. the cursor is always at the end of the > word when moving from left to right. If you move right to left then the > insert cursor is at the beginning. This is the reverse to what I am used too. > > Why is this the case? > > So how do you delete the character you are currently on? > > How do you stop the same character being spoken twice when you move to the > previous character and then back again? EG: Say you are on a space. Then you > press the left arrow key. YOu hear a character. Then you press the right > arrow key you hear the same character. This type of double announcing isn't > seen under windows. > > If there is a good tutorial on this. Point me to it. > > Sean > <--- 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/>
