Hi AZ,
You can use the "Help" menu on the menu bar of each application to find out
about the standard search options in Mac OS X. I use the built-in OS X
shortcuts for "find" and "find next" by pressing Command+f and Command+g to
search for text in a Text Edit document, mail post, and similar situations in
other applications. For example, in TextEdit you can can navigate to the menu
bar (VO+M, or Control+F2 -- or might be Fn+Control+F2 on your laptop), press
"h" to go to the "Help" menu and arrow down, then type "Finding and Replacing
Text" in the search box. (On a Russian input language keyboard, you'd likely
press "c" as the first letter to go to the the help menu, or you could use your
arrow keys.) In Mail, a similar set of commands, and typing in "searching a
message" in the search box would bring up information like:
<begin quote>
To search in a message:
Choose Edit > Find > Find (or press Command-F), enter the text you want to
find, and then click Next.
• If you select some text and then move to a different part of the
message, you can jump back to the selected text by choosing Edit > Find > “Jump
to Selection” (or pressing Command-J).
• If you select some text and want to find more instances of that text,
choose Edit > Find > “Use Selection for Find” (or press Command-E) to make the
text the search phrase, and then choose Edit > Find > Find Next (or press
Command-G) to find the next instance.
<end quote>
Most of the information of how to use the dialog boxes that are brought up with
the built-in "FInd" (Command+f) and "Find Next" (Command+g) shortcuts can be
found in the help menus, or in the instructions in the dialog boxes themselves.
This is like the Control+f and Control+g shortcuts in Windows.
In addition, in the Finder, in iTunes, and on the Safari "Show All Bookmarks"
page where you would search for bookmarks, using the Mac OS X shortcut of
Command+Option+f will take you to the search box for that application, where
you can then type in search terms that will filter results. This is different
from searching within a document or mail post, because in these cases you first
choose a collection like a folder or device that may be in the Finder sidebar,
a library in the iTunes sources list, or a bookmarks collection on the Safari
"Show All Bookmarks" page toggled on or off with Command+Option+b, and then
find the matches to your search terms as filenames within the list view of
files, or song tracks, or table of individual bookmarks.
Incidentally, as I stated last month in my response to your earlier post (Re:
Non english layouts in VoiceOver search), the issue for the VoiceOver shortcuts
is the non-Latin alphabet used with a Cyrillic input keyboard for Russian, and
the fact that you're using a Russian language localization for your account. I
can force TextEdit to start up with a Russian localization from the command
line of Terminal on my system, and still use the VoiceOver shortcuts by typing
with the key locations on an English input keyboard, because my account is set
up for U.S. English. So while forcing TextEdit to start with a Russian
localization means that the application menu bar, menus, help, etc. will show
up in Russian (and require me to switch to a Russian voice to read these, and
either a Russian input language keyboard or Russian-phonetic input keyboard to
type text in Cyrillic), and that the spell checking, etc. will also use a
Russian dictionary, the fact that my global account settings are still in
English means that all the regular VoiceOver shortcuts still work for me (and
all my other applications come up in U.S. English).
Incidentally, I usually read non-Latin text (which includes Cyrillic characters
or equations that use Greek and other symbols) in TextEdit, which I find has
the most flexibility. I set up a shortcut to the "Services" menu option for
"New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" that allows me send selected text to
TextEdit. Then I can use Command-a to select all in a web page or other
application, apply the shortcut, and have all text show up in a TextEdit window.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 7, 2011, at 05:58, AZ wrote:
> Hi
> As i have said in previous messages we cann't use search function of VO in
> non english languages. But i still don't know how to use standard search
> feature of the Mac OS X. I tryed but couldn't find anything on the pages. Can
> someone help please how to use the standard search feature?
> AZ
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