Hi, can't help you much with the calendar and address book, since I don't use those, but I can help with selecting text on a web page. Interact with the text, and move to where you want to start the selection. Press control option enter. Now move to the end of the text and press control option enter again, the text between the 2 points will be selected, you can then press command c to copy it. On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> And I have some basic questions as well. Not the least of which include the > scanning software (or is it hardware) Florian mentions. While I have been > using a Mac more on than off for a year now, I still get stuck and end up > going back to windows. Here are a couple of examples. > > 1. I need to know how to efficiently navigate calendar and addressbook. In > calendar for example, when I do control shit t and then get my date I want > to view entered, I hear nothing and when I vo right or left, I'm back to > today's date. Also, entering appointments is weird for me because I haven't > quite figured out how to know whether I'm on the month chooser, the day or > the year, and then we add in the time. It doesn't seem to be consistent > that one right arrow takes me to month, 2 to day, 3 to year and 4 to time. > I use this feature a lot, since my appointments sync over the air with my > iPhone and my other family members' calendars so any help would be amazing! > > I am still at a loss to efficiently navigate to a contact in addressbook. > I'm at such a loss, in fact, I can't even tell you what I can't do, smile! > > 2. Occasionally I need to copy then paste things from a website, such as a > recipe. I cannot consistently do this. Sometimes shift downarrow works and > sometimes it does not. I would also love to know how to jump to the next > block of unlinked text. In Window-Eyes, I simply press x which moves me by > blocks of unlinked text. > > If, as a somewhat new user, I could make any suggestion to Apple, it would > be to elaborate just a bit more in its command list. It's quite likely that > the answers to my questions are there, but are worded such that I don't get > it straight out of the gate. > > Thanks to any and all who can help, and I hope this first post is not too > lengthy or too basic for this list. I am looking forward to learning and > sharing with you all. > > Marlaina > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "f10r14n" <florianbeij...@gmail.com> > To: "MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 1:15 AM > Subject: some newbie mac questions > > > Hello, > > Some of you might recognize me from the viPhone list. To those i say : > My apple journey is about to continue. > I have ordered a macbook yesterday and am impatiently awaiting it's > arrival. I have a couple of questions though. > > I've been reading this list fora while now, browsing the archives and > trying to keep up with recent stuff as well. > My first question concerns garage band. Are there things that still > don't work after the update, or is everything accessible? Can you for > example select a portion of a track now? > Second is scanning. I read alot about the whole readiris and vuscan > thing, is this still the way to go for scanning and OCR? > Last one, and i'm sure this one has been asked a million times before: > Is there a directory of apps that are accessible with voiceOver? And i > don't mean the supported applications page on Apple.com, surely there > are more :P > > Thanks for any help, > Florian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
