Hi Lovette, When I post a link to the Mail Archive for a post, that has full instructions on how to set things up. This is meant to cut down on the traffic, and includes how to get to System Preferences, and gives step by step information. You can bring up the link in Safari and then Command-Tab to switch between reading the instructions and working in another app. However, I'll paste in the text for my earlier archived post at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00659.html • Re: Selecting a block of text from a website on Lion I'll just add that if you start from Mail, a quick way to get to the correct section of the System Preferences menu for Services is to use Control+F2 or VO-M to the Apple menu bar, right arrow to Mail, arrow down and press "S" for the services menu, then right arrow and press Command+Down arrow to go to "Services Preferences…" and press return. You can substitute that for my first sentence (below), and then start at the sentence "You'll be placed directly in the Keyboard Shortcuts pane…"
<begin quote> A quick way to get to the System Preferences for Services is to select some text (doesn't have to be in Safari, can be in another application, such as mail), then navigate to the Services menu on the menu bar (e.g., Control+F2 or VO+m to the menu bar, navigate (VO+Right arrow) to the application, arrow down and navigate to the Services menu option (quickly type "s e r" then press return), then again quickly type "s e r" to move to the "Services Preferences" option in the Services sub-menu, and press return. You'll be placed directly in the Keyboard shortcuts pane that John mentions, with the advantage that "Services" will already be selected in the first table of "Keyboard Shortcuts Categories". So you only need to navigate to the second "Keyboard Shortcuts Table", interact, then navigate to the entry for "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" and check it. I think you can simply move to the end of the table (VO+Shift+End or VO+Fn+Shift+Right Arrow on a laptop), then VO+Left Arrow to the column with the shortcut name. You only have to VO+Up arrow a few times to get to the "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" shortcut (in Snow Leopard). VO+Left Arrow to the column with the check box and check it (VO+Space). Then VO+Right Arrow past the description column to the column for shortcuts, press return, and type in your new shortcut. Stop interacting with the table and use Command+W to close the window. This is for Snow Leopard, since I have to keep running some programs that are not Lion compatible. However, if you do this in Mail, you don't have to select any text for the "Services Preferences" in the submenu to show up. In most applications you'll only get the Services submenu and the "Services Preferences" entry to show up when you have selected something. <end quote> Cheers, Esther On Dec 20, 2011, at 11:37, Sarah Alawami wrote: > go to safari via the menues if you are in that program and then go to > services, then services prefs and yu should be able to follow ester's > wonderful instructions from there. > > Take care. > On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Lovette Yewchan wrote: > >> okay how do I get to system preferences? I tried and it seems to go to the >> finder preferenecs or email preferences etc. >> thanks. >> <--- 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/>
