Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Chris: Thanks so much, this is very important info for me specially when pasting some text in my Research. Thanks again and thanks tim On 3/21/17, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Chris, > > thanks for this. I think I've seen this but never really considered it for > probably unknown reasons. Could have j

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Chris, thanks for this. I think I've seen this but never really considered it for probably unknown reasons. Could have just been my claims of being too busy to check into it. Thanks again. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 21, 2017, at 11:38, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVision

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
A similar effect can be had by doing a "paste without formatting" which is command-option-shift-V. This is also handy when you're pasting text from different places into a document and you don't want all the font and other formatting to come along, which usually means your pasted text will inhe

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi and ew Tim and John: Thanks so much, I now have all the things to do what I need, again thanks so much On 3/21/17, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > Just a note on method 2. Generally when I have found this does not work is > when the website has its own definition for the arrow keys defined. You can >

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Just a note on method 2. Generally when I have found this does not work is when the website has its own definition for the arrow keys defined. You can override this in VoiceOver Utility under the web area. Always allow keyboard commands to navigate websites unchecked If you check this box, then you

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Thanks Andrew. Well explained. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 21, 2017, at 08:23, Andrew Lamanche wrote: Tim has just described how to select the entire text of a webpage once you interact with it by pressing command+a. Then you might wish to paste it into textedit op

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Tim has just described how to select the entire text of a webpage once you interact with it by pressing command+a. Then you might wish to paste it into textedit open document. The key combination Tim has mentioned at this stage, command+shift+t, converts what you've just pasted into plain text

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Thanks so much tim, very helpful really but may I know what is cmd-shift-t, ? On 3/21/17, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > There are multiple methods for copying from a web page. > > 1. VO-shift-c as mentioned by Andrew. Whereby you have VO read a block of > text, press VO-shift-c to copy the last

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, There are multiple methods for copying from a web page. 1. VO-shift-c as mentioned by Andrew. Whereby you have VO read a block of text, press VO-shift-c to copy the last phrase uttered by VO to the clipboard. You can then paste it wherever you wish. 2. Hold down the shift key then arro

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello Andrew, thanks so much for that. it's really so frustrating, specially if the page contains a block of text that I need to get. but so so sorry for asking, are you sure that this is the only way of doing this? I mean copying a block of text? On 3/21/17, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Hi Ramy, >

Re: Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-21 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Ramy, Selecting text on a webpage has always been a bit of a problem, especially if you need to select and copy just a small portion of the text. The way I do it is as follows: once you find and hear the text you are interested in, you can invoke Voiceover command vo+shift+c which copies th

Selecting a text On Safari

2017-03-20 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hello all: Sorry if my question is a starting question, but i came to a web site on safari that i need to select some text from it, and copy them to another file. how can i do this/ thanks in advance -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If