Hello Alex, The shaped text boxes are usually just blocks of colour, but I don't know any way to find what colour they are.
You can work out the position of any element by listening to the new line sounds. Always navigate to the left-most item before going down to the next item on the page. In a landscape brochure, page 1 has the fourth page on the left, and the front page on the right. Page 2 has the second page on the left and the 3rd page on the right. Resizing is done in the Metrics inspector but be very careful to do your sums correctly! A tip for navigating the inspectors: go to last visible item then first visible item to be at the beginning of the selected inspector. This saves a lot of time. Cheers, Anne On 4 Jul 2013, at 14:31, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, that did work. Now if I could just figure out what these "shape > textbod layout item" things are. I get textboxes, but this shape thing I'm > not sure of. The vo commands for speaking size and position are proving very > helpful in visualizing the layout of the template. Do you happen to know how > to move or resize items though? > On Jul 4, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Alex, >> >> In Pages, you often need to bring the mouse and do a VO-Shift-Space to be >> able to edit. >> >> The mock Latin is placeholder text. In Pages, you have to navigate with the >> arrow keys alone and never, never use Quick Nav. >> >> When you land on placeholder text, it should become highlighted andd will >> disappear as soon as you start typing, but what you type will be in the same >> style as the placeholder text. >> >> It's perfectly straightforward to use the provided templates once you know >> how to use Pages. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 3 Jul 2013, at 20:17, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I have a copy of Pages on an old Mac which I'm using to see if it is worth >>> the $20. It is, to my knowledge, up to date as of last summer. >>> >>> I would like to design a brochure for a meeting next week, just some >>> information on my company to pass out to others at the meeting. I chose >>> "brochure" from the templates, and now see a whole lot of things with which >>> to interact. I managed to find page 1, and inside that a textbox, but I >>> seem unable to edit this box. When I type, I get the usual "invalid >>> keystroke" tone the Mac makes when you press something wrong. Furthermore, >>> there seems to be a great deal of Latain in the two page groups and I have >>> no idea what it means. What am I doing wrong? Do I ned to update Pages >>> (meaning, I think, buying it for my own ID)? I'm okay with buying it, I >>> just thought I'd use this old copy to see if it is something I'd use enough >>> to justify the price. Thanks for any help. >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
