Hello Paul. I got it. Thanks so much. On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
> Hi Paul Hunt, > 1. Are you sure you got the backslash? > 2. Did you verify it using keyboard help command k that it is the backslash? > 3. You don't need to put the vo cursor on a column heading. Just move over to > the column, it doesn't matter on which item you land, and then do vo shift > backslash. > Hth, > Paul. > On Sep 25, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: > >> Hello Paul. I tried sorting and it didn't work. I put the VO Cursor on a >> name and typed VO+shift+backslash. I got the error tone. I don't know how to >> put the VO cursor on a column header. Am I missing a step? >> >> Thanks so much. >> On Sep 25, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> To add to this, if the sorting is by name but it is in reverse order, you >>> can correct that by clicking the column header for name, with the mouse. >>> We, voiceover users, have a shortcut to do the same thing. Moving the vo >>> cursor to the column to reverse, you then press vo shift backslash. In your >>> case, move to the name column and to any filename or folder name, then hit >>> vo shift backslash and the sorting order will reverse. Now from top to >>> bottom in alphabetical order. >>> >>> Note: you can do interesting things this way. Say, you want to know which >>> of the 800 files in a folder, is the largest file in there. All you need to >>> do is move to the size column, hit vo shift backslash to sort accordingly >>> and then look at the top or bottom row. It might be that the smallest file >>> is now at the top, and the largest at the bottom, but it can also be the >>> other way around. So to sort according to a particular column, vo shift >>> backslash on it. To reverse the sorting order, do it again. To sort >>> according to another column, move there and hit vo shift backslash again. >>> If the order happens to be reversed, hit again. Now you can sort for any >>> column in both directions. >>> Hth, >>> Paul. >>> On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:44 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Paul. >>>> You have to go into the View Menu and go down to Sort by. There are a lot >>>> of choices on there like like Last Opened, Last Modified, etc. I think if >>>> you want alphabetical you would choose Name. >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> Gigi >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sep 24, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello everyone. I finally upgraded to Lion last night andI'm very >>>>> pleased. Mail works very well for me in the normal view, I didn't have to >>>>> switch to Classic view. However, I noticed that the files and folders in >>>>> the finder window show with the letters at the end of the alphabet on top >>>>> where they should be on the bottom. It looks like the entire finder >>>>> windows is sorted in the reverse order. Do any of you know how to fix >>>>> this? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks so much. I hope you have a nice weekend. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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.
