Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

2015-10-19 Thread Singing Sparrow
If you install iwork 09 you will not only have that version of pages but you can also have the newer version on the same mac. I am pretty sure all features are in the newest version of pages but i will call back and ask about these if you like? On 10/20/2015 12:27 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: He

Re: Charts in Pages

2015-10-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jürgen, Here’s how to access the contextual menu for a paragraph style. • Navigate to the Styles table and interact. • navigate to the style you want and bring the mouse. • Press VO-Cmd-j and interact again. • Navigate once right and you should be able to press VO-Space on the menu button.

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

2015-10-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, Whoever you spoke to at Apple doesn’t know what they’re talking about. One crucial feature that’s missing is merge fields, the ability to import contact information from Contacts. This is one thing that is preventing my husband from upgrading from Mountain Lion and iWork09 as he depends

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-19 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
They had several openings last time I heard. But they require that you know braille. Which I don't. Jonathan Cohn > On Oct 16, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > > They should really hire a blind software engineer. I think that's about the > only way we'll get any progress. > > Sent

Re: Files Question.

2015-10-19 Thread Eileen Scrivani
I’ve never seen them on my windows computer which is where I use MS Word. I don’t have Word or Office on the Mac and think I’d only ever invest in getting it if & when the Mac gives me the ability to do Braille work /reading .BRF files. Thank you for the explanation. Eileen From: David G

Re: Files Question.

2015-10-19 Thread David Griffith
The files beginning with ~ are typically temprary Word or Office files which are created when you open an MS Word document in Word for editing. Normally these files are deleted when you close a document or shut down Word. However if you for any reason shut down your computer without closing Wor

Re: Files Question.

2015-10-19 Thread Eileen Scrivani
Although I have not inspected them for a one-to-one correspondence (there are too many of them), they all appear to be in the folder with the standard file type. I have not brought my Itunes stuff over to the Mac since I am still leary of it. I normally connect my phone to my Windows comput

Re: Files Question.

2015-10-19 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Jonathan Cohn > On Oct 19, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Eileen Scrivani wrote: > > Hi, > > I had my Mac Book restored to Yosemity last week. I’ve recopied my files > back onto the computer, but have a question about the files I copied over > from a USB drive. > > I copied 3 folders from my Win

Re: Moving my lonch pad back to the doc

2015-10-19 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
go to the file you want to put on the dock then press control command T > Il giorno 19 ott 2015, alle ore 9:02 PM, Kim Crawford ha > scritto: > > Is there a way with voiceover I can move my launchpad back from my desktop to > the doc > Thank you all for your time have a great day > > -- > Y

Files Question.

2015-10-19 Thread Eileen Scrivani
Hi, I had my Mac Book restored to Yosemity last week. I’ve recopied my files back onto the computer, but have a question about the files I copied over from a USB drive. I copied 3 folders from my Windows 8 computer. The files are a combination of .DOC (MS Word) .TXT & .PDF files. They a

Bootcamp problem

2015-10-19 Thread E.T.
Yesterday I installed and ran Paragon Bootcamp Backup. All went well. Now tho, I am unable to boot into Bootcamp. In Yosemite, Disk Utilities, things look ok and I ran Repair Disk. No change. I configured Paragon to save the backups to an external drive. In Yosemite, disk info indica

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

2015-10-19 Thread Singing Sparrow
From what apple told me that all the features a person seems to be missing from pages 09 are still all there but from what they told me they are in different places with in the menus. On 10/19/2015 10:31 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Jürgen, Good catch! You’re absolutely right. So the key b

Moving my lonch pad back to the doc

2015-10-19 Thread Kim Crawford
Is there a way with voiceover I can move my launchpad back from my desktop to the doc Thank you all for your time have a great day -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

iStat Menu or Alternative to Hardware Monitoring

2015-10-19 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, As the subject line indicates, I am in search of a program that is accessible with voiceover. I am wanting to monitor my internal computer temperature as well as fan speed, and other general care items such a program could provide. What are some suggestions others have founded us

Re: Charts in Pages

2015-10-19 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anne, > > Access to the Styles table doesn’t seem to have changed. You still have to > bring the mouse, press VO-Cmd-j and interact to find the menu button. After > that, everything works fine. > I did this, found the unlabled button but couldn’t open it. A mouse click didn’t seem to work,

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-19 Thread Brian Fischler
Hi Anne, Thanks for that, just changed it. This will be nice. > On Oct 19, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > You can stop VO saying Embedded by setting When encountering a > link/attachment to Do Nothing. It’s in VoiceOver Utility/Verbosity/Text. > > Cheers, > > Ann

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

2015-10-19 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Wow, for 19 years. Probably software is never bug free. But I’d wish Apple responded quicker to remove found bugs. But anyway, I love my Macs. :-) All the best Jürgen > Am 19.10.2015 um 17:31 schrieb Anne Robertson : > > Hello Jürgen, > > Good catch! You’re absolutely right. So the key bindings

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

2015-10-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jürgen, Good catch! You’re absolutely right. So the key bindings thing isn’t wasted after all. I was amused to read on a forum somewhere that someone was reminiscing about the days when Apple software was bug-free. I think that time was in that person’s dreams. I certainly don’t remember

RE: Something to ponder regarding Siri

2015-10-19 Thread george b
Correction to your correction. The 5 and 5s will work wireless, but they have to be plugged into power to work, and then in the 6 and 6s series of phones it does not have to be plugged into power because the restructor of the processor, battery life, etc. From: macvisionaries@googlegroup

Re: Something to ponder regarding Siri

2015-10-19 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Correction... The wireless ability is exclusive to the 6S, and 6S+. You can do hey Siri as far back as an IPhone 5. Not even a 5S. Trust me, I know. I have a friend who has the original 5, with I O S 9, and he can do it. He just can't do it wirelessly. Chris. - Original Message

Re: Something to ponder regarding Siri

2015-10-19 Thread Sadam Ahmed
That is correct Chris. Hey Siri is exclusive to the 6s and 6s plus. Yours truly, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my iPhone -- > On 20 Oct 2015, at 2:13 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Apparently it only works wirelessly if you have a 6S, or 6S+, but I could be > wrong on that. C

Re: Something to ponder regarding Siri

2015-10-19 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Apparently it only works wirelessly if you have a 6S, or 6S+, but I could be wrong on that. Can someone else please confirm? Chris. - Original Message - From: Jessica Moss To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 8:03 AM Subject: Re: Something to p

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

2015-10-19 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hello Anne, yes, I was happy for this as well. Here’s the but: The old bug apears still if I insert a page boundary manually from the insert menue. Could you try it out if this is the same for you? Thanks and all the best Jürgen > Am 18.10.2015 um 16:36 schrieb Anne Robertson : > > Hello ever

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Brian, You can stop VO saying Embedded by setting When encountering a link/attachment to Do Nothing. It’s in VoiceOver Utility/Verbosity/Text. Cheers, Anne : > On 19 Oct 2015, at 14:30, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Chris, > > After two days since the debacle of a clean install going back

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

2015-10-19 Thread Brian Fischler
Chris, After two days since the debacle of a clean install going back to Yosemite from Capitan, and doing a time machine revert after the clean install debacle, I am very happy to say everything is running great again in Yosemite. I guess moral or the story is before upgrading or downgrading ma

Re: Something to ponder regarding Siri

2015-10-19 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! The new iPhones are capable of doing it wirelessly now. Nicolai On 10/19/2015 8:03 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: Does that even work wirelessly now? I thought they had to be plugged into a power source for that feature to work. On Oct 18, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland mailto:clgil

Re: Something to ponder regarding Siri

2015-10-19 Thread Jessica Moss
Does that even work wirelessly now? I thought they had to be plugged into a power source for that feature to work. On Oct 18, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Not sure what's amusing about it. I only asked a legitimate question. > > Chris. > > - Original Message ---

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

2015-10-19 Thread Jamie Pauls
Good to know. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 18, 2015, at 11:59 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Jamie, > > We’ve been able to read page by page using the VO Page Down or Page Up > commands for quite some time. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > >> On 18 Oct 2015, at 21:19, Jamie Pauls w

Re: What have they done to placeholder text in the new Pages?

2015-10-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniela, I tried opening one of the templates provided by Apple and the placeholder text was not being selected correctly in that. Also, the Date field wasn’t selected either. When I inserted a Date field into a new document, I couldn’t select it by the usual means, either. I think this

Re: What have they done to placeholder text in the new Pages?

2015-10-19 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello! I notice something very strange about it. When the template is new, this is, if you create that Placeholder, it gets selected like always, the same happens with date and time. But with old templates, it doesn’t work. At least, this is what I discovered in my computer. I found out this yest

What have they done to placeholder text in the new Pages?

2015-10-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Something horrible has happened to placeholder text in the new Pages. It doesn’t get selected automatically when navigating with the arrow keys. You have to select it using the Shift key. What is the point of placeholder text when it behaves like this? They’ve also messed up in

Mail and spell check

2015-10-19 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
All, I had my built inn Mail program set to auto spell check when I pressed send, this has worked floorlessly for years. When updating to the latest itteration of OSx this has now stopped working, when pressing send my messages just fly out the door having not been checked, sometimes I do hear