Hello Tim, The VO-t command doesn't help in identifying the position along the line. VO-F4-F4, although giving wrong information, is nonetheless useful as you can tell whether one part of the line is further away from another part than just the width of one character. So, with Jim's problem, pressing VO-F4-F4 just to the right of the last character of the lefthand part of the line, then doing it again just after the tab, will show whether the righthand part of the line is much further across the page than the lefthand part.
I wish more people would report the VO-F4-F4 problem to Apple as we've had several updates to Pages since I reported it a few months ago. Cheers, Anne On 11 Apr 2014, at 15:40, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Have you tried navigating into the text you wish to know attributes about, > then pressing VO-t. The VO-t command usually gives a set of relevant > attributes including text size, colour, style and alignment. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Jim Gatteys <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ok I may have gotten it to work. Just wasn't going down fare enough but now >> I have no way of telling that the text is right aligned from what I can tell. >> Jim >> >> On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello Jim, >>> >>> This was a hard nut to crack but here's how to sort out the alignment. >>> >>> * Type the text you want to have at the left then jump to the Formatter. >>> * Select layout and interact with the scroll area. >>> * Go down to Tab stops and expand it with VO-Space. >>> * Click the Add tab stop button and interact with the table. >>> * Bring the mouse to the field showing the position of the tab stop and >>> Double-click using VO-Shift-Space. >>> * Type in either 16 for centimeters or 4.5 for inches. >>> * Interact with the field that says Alignment Left and bring the mouse. >>> * Turn on Mouse keys. >>> * Move the mouse right by pressing the letter o on a laptop or the 6 key on >>> an extended keyboard 52 times then click with the letter i or the 5. >>> * Move the mouse down the way with either k or 2 until you hear Right then >>> click with i or 5. >>> * You should now turn Mouse keys off again. >>> Back in your document, navigate to the end of your line and press the Tab >>> key. >>> * You can now enter the second part of your line and the new text will be >>> right aligned. >>> >>> It took my husband and me over an hour to figure this one out and I need to >>> report it to Apple. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>> On 10 Apr 2014, at 18:19, Jim Gatteys <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> Just wondered if anybody had looked at my earlier post about changing the >>>> alignment of tabs in pages. Its a combo box but when I up or down arrow >>>> it just blinks at me. >>>> Any ideas would be helpful. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
