Entering text into documents on the Mac

Hi, I'm trying to enter text into a document on the Mac. My problem is this when I open up a document and I try to find the cursor I can not see the cursor flashing And the mouse pointer does not change so I can position the cursor where I want it. George, Sent from my iPad -- The

Re: Entering text into documents on the Mac

Can you explain what accessibility software you use on your Mac? It sounds like you rely on vision, rather than VoiceOver? > On Feb 13, 2016, at 15:30, George Cham wrote: > > > Hi, > I'm trying to enter text into a document on the Mac. > My problem is this when I

Re: Entering text into documents on the Mac

Hi Alex, using both zoom and voice-over George, Sent from my iPad > On 14 Feb 2016, at 7:47 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Can you explain what accessibility software you use on your Mac? It sounds > like you rely on vision, rather than VoiceOver? >> On Feb 13, 2016, at

Re: Entering text into documents on the Mac

If you're using VoiceOver, you don't need to bother with the cursor shape or location. Simply navigate to the text box and, once VO says "edit text", you can type. You can also click the text field to activate it, and have VO set to follow your mouse cursor. I'm probably not the best person to

Re: Entering text into documents on the Mac

Anne is the Pages guru on the list, but I can tell you that Pages does use text boxes depending on your template. It may also be that the box you're seeing is the document body (as opposed to the header or footer). Try starting a document from the "blank" template and see if the same thing

Re: Entering text into documents on the Mac

Hi Alex, upon further investigation when I type a word into either pages or Microsoft Word, it seems to want to put it into a text box. This is happening more so in pages. George, Sent from my iPad > On 14 Feb 2016, at 7:47 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Can you explain