That makes sense, thanks. Yes, I use tones, and that may well be throwing me off. I understand, too, what Anne was saying; you don't have to *select* the text, you just move to it and it is selected for you. AppleScript is certainly an interesting idea I'll have to look into further--I never thought of using that with Pages. > On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Alex, I don’t think the issue you were having is a beta thing. I’ve noticed > it as well and I’m not running any beta. It might, however, have something to > do with the VoiceOver setting to play tones instead of announcing links. When > I’m navigating through a Pages document using the down arrow key, with > QuickNav turned off, if a line contains placeholder text only the placeholder > text is spoken by VoiceOver, together with the link tone. However, navigating > character by character or word by word works fine. > > I think your problem with replacing placeholder text is that you’re not > selecting the placeholder text. As you’re navigating down, VoiceOver > announces the placeholder text but the keyboard cursor is at the beginning of > the line or in any case not selecting the placeholder text. So you need to > then navigate by word until you get to the placeholder text and then by > character to select the placeholder text. You need to hear VoiceOver > announce, “placeholder text selected”, and not just hear the tone, because > the tone is played both when the placeholder text is selected and unselected. > > You also might like to consider using AppleScript to complete your template. > I’ve just created AppleScripts to complete forms at work, and it works really > well. Templates and placeholder text are all part of the iWork scripting > edition. So your script can prompt you for the client’s name and number of > hours, and can then open a template in Pages, replace the placeholder text, > export the document as PDF and email to the client. > > Best of luck! > Nic > > -- > 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.
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