Justin, try interacting with your text once you've typed it. this has seemed to work in my case.
Teresa On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi tim, > > LOL. Nope, I wouldn't try to get the attributes of non-existent text. Don't > think you'd get terribly far with that one. Seriously though, I usually write > a paragraph or two, then I feel like I need to make sure it's formatted > correctly even though I know that I changed the settings. Most of the time I > just get that ding sound. > > Thanks. > > > On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi Justin, > > Does your document have any text in it at all? If the document is empty then > pressing VO-t will yield a muffled ding noise because there's nothing there > for it to take the text attributes of. Simply type one letter and then press > the VO-t command and you'll hear the text attributes. If that is not the > issue, let me know and I'll dig some more for you. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2010-09-28, at 10:32 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > >> Hi tim, >> >> This is helpful to me as well. I have one question about the VO-t command >> for hearing the current text attributes. For some reason, this command works >> fine for me when I open existing documents but all I get is one of the >> voiceover sounds when I use it in a newly created document. This is the same >> whether I use textedit, bean, or my trial version of pages. Any ideas what I >> might be missing >> On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> >> Hi Kimberly, >> >> 1. To set the line spacing in TextEdit: >> >> • Stop Interacting with the Edit field. >> • Navigate to the Ruler and Interact With it. >> • Navigate to the Paragraph and Line Spacing menu and press it with >> VO-space. >> • choose your desired line spacing. >> >> 2. To choose a font: >> >> • Either highlight what you wish in a specific font or this font will >> begin from where the cursor is. >> • Press cmd-t to bring up the Font window. >> • Ignore most of the stuff but navigate to the Family Table. >> • Interact With it. >> • Navigate to your desired Font through the alphabetically ordered >> Table. >> • Once you have found it, bring the mouse cursor to it using VO-cmd-f5. >> (Add the fn key if on a laptop) >> • Press VO-shift-space for the mouse-click as focus doesn't really go >> there without the mouse-click. >> • Press cmd-w to close the Font window. >> • Start typing and your font will be in your desired font. >> >> Remember that you can press VO-t to confirm the font and style of your text. >> Just play around some more, it will come to you. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2010-09-28, at 8:27 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: >> >>> Hello folks: >>> >>> I would really love to use text edit to write essays for school, but most >>> instructors like Times New Roman font and double spacing. I've checked the >>> fonts out in text edit, but it seems very confusing. Does anyone have >>> experience with this? If so, could you give me a pointer or two? I would >>> really appreciate it. 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