[macvoiceover] Re: Question please.

  • From: Nicole Hutchins <nkhutch86@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:42:27 -0500

Ian, thank you for this information I found it very helpful as I did not know a 
lot of the stuff.

Nicole
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> On Feb 4, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> When you say they put documents in Pages, what kind of documents were they?
> 
> Here’s a quick start on how to get into a document in Pages.
> 
> Open the document, say by command o when you are on it in the Finder, or by 
> opening it within Pages.
> Under the standard setup, there is an area that has the tool bar, the 
> document layout area, and the formatter group.
> Vo arrow to the document layout area and interact.
> If you can’t find the document layout area, you can use the iVoiceover item 
> chooser to find it, do VO i and pick it form the list. There might be a lot 
> in the item chooser, the document I’m in has 292 items in there, so you can 
> just type doc and it should find it. 
> Once you have interacted with the document layout area, you will find things 
> like the header group, body, footer group etc. Once you find body, might say 
> body page 1 of 2 or the like, interact and you will be in your document. Then 
> use your arrow keys to move around.
> 
> If you know you want to find the body right off, you can use the item chooser 
> for that too. Use VO i, type in bod and you’ll get a list of everything that 
> starts with those letters. VO arrow down to body page 1 of 1, or howerver 
> many pages are in your document and hit VO space to move to it. There are a 
> couple of other things that start with bod, like style selecter buttons, so 
> just listen for it to say body page and it should get you to where you want, 
> then interact.
> 
> If your documents include tables or footnotes, they will also be in that 
> document layout area. VO arrow left and right through it, interacting with 
> what you need to.
> 
> Are you migrating from MS Word on Windows? it’s a slightly differnt mindset 
> that takes a bit to get used to, let me know if you need more specific 
> instructions than I’ve offered here and I’ll to be as precise as possible. 
> Oh, one of the mindsets I’ve encountered is that there are more ways to do 
> the same thing on Mac than on Windows, so others on the list might have way 
> more efficient ways to do what I’ve described.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ian
> 
>> On Feb 4, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Sandy Scovell <sandy.scovell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> I have some documents that the Apple store helped me to put in Pages.  I can 
>> read the names, but cannot read anything in these documents.  How would be 
>> the best way to read these documents?
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Sandy Scovell>
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