Hello Paul, I really don't use TextEdit very much, but I doubt that it would do the job.
Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep 2011, at 15:11, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Anne, > > Can the same thing be achieved in text edit as well? Garth posed an > interesting question that I'd also like to know about, but if this can be > done in text edit, that would suffice for me. Can it be done the same way? > > Paul. > On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Garth, >> >> On 31 Aug 2011, at 16:28, Garth Humphreys wrote: >>> >>> >>> A typical task for me would be a fairly simple document where I have a >>> number of headings at various levels, ie 1, 2 and 3 with bodies of plain >>> text in between. >>> >>> Starting from the desktop could you let me know how I would most quickly >>> achieve the following. Bring up a new blank document, >> Pages remembers the previous document type you chose. So if you always use a >> blank document, that's what will be offered. So you'd just have to open >> Pages, then go to last visible item and press VO-Space to choose it. >> >>> put in a heading at level one, another at level two, then another at level >>> three. There would then be some body text and I would be putting in further >>> headings at levels two and three with passages of text. >> Before beginning to type your document, you would show the styles drawer >> (Cmd-Shift-T) where you would set hot keys for the various styles. These hot >> keys are F1-F8. You would then set a hotspot on the Paragraph Styles table. >> Then you stop interacting, navigate right twice and interact with the scroll >> area and the layout area. >> >> In your document, you just have to be in the paragraph to change its style >> by pressing the hot key. You can check the style by pressing VO-Cmd-Number >> where number is the hotspot number. >> >>> >>> I would then want to check i had the formatting correct and that there were >>> no spelling errors. >> To check spelling, use Cmd-Semicolon. Each misspelled word will be >> highlighted in turn. >> >> I hope this makes things a bit clearer. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
