I'd completely echo David's sentiments this is a superb tip. I'd also buy that book if you ever write it Anne.
Dónal On 9 Feb 2013, at 19:20, "David Griffith" <[email protected]> wrote: > Absolutely brilliant. > > I think you should consider writing a I Works Guide for visually Impaired > people . > > Something modelled on the "getting started with the Iphone for blind Users > " Daisy Book only targeted at Office Productivity generally and using I > Works on the Mac specifically. > > You could probably assemble a lot of it from the posts you have made on this > list but it would be very useful to have it all set out in tutorial form and > properly structured with chapters on Pages Numbers and Keynote with possible > supplementary on these app on I devices. > You could also have Section on Text Edit, mail contacts Calendar and how > they interact with the I Work suite. This would fulfil a great need. For > example I picked up from you that text Edit is a better tool for continuous > reading of word docs than Pages. > > There is also a need for a guide to using office productivity on the Mac > which integrates OS and voiceover key shortcuts. > There are loads of introductions to voiceover but very little which takes > you to the next stage. > It is a yawning gap in the market. > I, for one, would buy it. > > David Griffith > > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: 09 February 2013 18:43 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Searching in Numbers > > Hello everyone, > > I just discovered this trick for searching for specific content in Numbers. > > . Set a hotspot on the table without interacting with it; . Press Cmd-f to > open the Search field; . Stop interacting until you've stopped interacting > with the scroll area; . Navigate down to the next scroll area and set > another hotspot; . Press Cmd-f to hide the Search area. > > Now, when you need to search for something, just press Cmd-f, enter the > string and press Return. Go to the hotspot you sett on the Search area and > select the result you want. Bring the mouse and press VO-Shift-Space then > jump to the hotspot you set on the table. 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