Thanks to all who answered my questions. I am sorry I did not reply before
but I am up to my ears in boxes as I prepare for some major alterations to
my house. I am therefore also behind with my emails.
I think I gave rather a bad example with something as simple as making text
bold. I am in the UK and wrote the message at the end of a long and tiring
day. I will therefore give a very specific example.
I type some text in the body of a document and then stop interacting with
the various parts of the document as I make my way back to the formatting
bar and choose the paragraph style button.
Firstly I cannot read any of the items on the menu that appears as VO says
absolutely nothing. I did this at the Apple store and the trainer told me
the style and confirmed that it had been applied.
Then, when I went back into the document and interacted with the various
parts until I got to the body of the text I could not read the text I had
previously entered. I simply got a "dong" sound when moving either the VO
cursor or the actual cursor. This was because the actual text entry cursor
would not move any further than the header section of the document. We tried
doing everything we could think of with the cursor tracking but to no avail.
I know there are some issues with Pages and Voiceover but I cannot believe
they are this bad. I am sure I am doing something very simple that is wrong
so please can anyone tell me what it is?
Once again, many thanks,
Chris Edwards
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugenia Firth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: formatting Text in Pages
Hi there
Once you select the words you want to bold command B should do it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Christopher Edwards
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I recently bought pages and am gradually finding my way around. I am
running it on a 2012 MBP under ML.
When I was at a training session at my local Apple store yesterday I came
across a problem which the trainer and I were not able to solve.
I typed some text into the body of the document and then selected two
words so that I could format them as Bold. As soon as I moved back to the
Formatting Bar using the VO and arrow keys the text became unselected. I
did of course have to stop interacting with the various parts of the
document as I moved backwards. Then, when I moved forwards again the
cursor with the focus stayed in the Header area. I closed the document
without saving and started over again creating a new document and the same
thing happened.
Although the trainer was not very familiar with Voiceover he did a lot of
researching on another machine but we could not find an answer. I am sure
the answer is something simple like cursor tracking but nothing I tried
worked.
If anyone can tell me what I was doing wrong I would be very grateful.
Many thanks,
Chris
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