[macvoiceover] Re: Selecting text problem.

  • From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:51:40 -0600

Oh, Cindy, sorry about that!  I just assumed you were using Mountain Lion.  The 
shift down arrow works well in ML, but, didn't always work in Lion.  Ricardo 
did a podcast on selecting text in Safari in Lion, but I can't recall the URL 
to it.  Maybe he will post it again.

Thanks,

Russell
Sent from my iMac running Mountain Lion!

On 2012-08-10, at 9:02 PM, Cindy Ray <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I seem to have had trouble doing this shift down arrow to select a line at a 
> time on web pages. I am still using Lion.
> 
> Cindy
> 
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 10:00 PM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jennifer,
>> 
>> Try pressing shift down arrow, to select a line at a time.  Then, when you 
>> have all the text selected you want, press command C to copy the selected 
>> text.
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> Russell
>> Sent from my iMac running Mountain Lion!
>> 
>> On 2012-08-10, at 6:57 PM, Jenifer <claudastar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all.
>>> I'm trying to select text from a web page… the text is in the middle of the 
>>> page.  I'm doing command, option, shift, a, VO is saying selected, but when 
>>> I do a command a it dings at me like nothing's done.  What am I doing 
>>> wrong?>
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