Hello Simon: I've heard about this but never got it to work for me. I'm thinking now from what you've said it's probably a timing thing on my part. Thanks for that little detail. Enjoy your day.
Ca On Mar 23, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > I have learnt to use yet another technique which is much faster to copy parts > of the text from a webpage into an open text document. I use Voiceover clever > feature called "copy last phrase to the clipboard" which you activate with > vo+shift+c. Press this command immediately or shortly after voiceover has > spoken a chunk of text. I often use it even before Voiceover stops speaking > if I sort know what I want to copy. Even large portion of text - provided > they are spoken in one go so to speak - get copied. I use it with languages > too and it works perfectly. You can also copy to clipboard the text spoken > related to images with which you cannot otherwise interact with. It is very > seeful. Be aware though, that everything spoken is copied so if Voiceover > says for instance "header level 2 link what is going in the world today?" the > words header level 2 and link will be copied too and need to be deleted but > that is a minor nuisance to me. > > Hope this helps. > > Simon > On 22 Mar 2011, at 23:15, Christine Grassman wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. Here I am again, one of the poor souls drifting with shame >> from the world of Windows into the enlightened precincts of Macdom. It >> continues to be a rather bumpy newbie ride. >> Although I have not had any difficulty selecting, copying, and pasting from >> e-mails and text files, I cannot seem to be able to do it successfully on >> Web pages. Today, for example, I attempted to copy some text about the pros >> and cons of nuclear power from a Web site. When I selected, there was no >> feedback, so I had to estimate. Then, when I pasted the material into first >> an e-mail, then a text edit file, all I got was "imbedded png file" and >> "imbedded gif file". I tried searching for the text, but to no avail. I was >> interacting with the text when I attempted this. >> I have previously given up when attempting to copy from sites which I had no >> trouble copying from with my PC. Can anyone explain this new hurdle, and >> suggest what I must do to leap over it? Thank you. >> Christine >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
