Depends which app you’re in for reading and selecting. In word processors like
Pages and Text Edit, once you are interacting with the edit area you can use
arrow keys to move around and read by line, down arrow moves you down a line.
Option left or right arrow moves you a word at a time, note that the word is
read as the cursor passes over the word, so you end up at the beginning or end
of the word depending if you are going backwards or forwards. This was a big
thing for me to learn when transitioning to Mac from Windows, as the default
Windows behaviour was to move the insertion point to the beginning of the word
no matter what direction you were moving.
Command plus left arrow takes you to the beginning of a line, command plus
right arrow the end of a line. Command plus up or down arrows take you to the
beginning or end of your document.
To select hold the shift keys while you use your arrows. To select a word,add
the shift to your option left or right arrow. Remember that the insertion
point/cursor may be at the beginning or at the end of the word depending which
way you navigated to it.
To select to the beginning or end of a line from the cursor, use command plus
shift plus arrow, command left arrow would bring you to the beginning of the
line, adding shift selects to the beginning of the line. To select to the
beginning or end of the document, use command shift up or command shift down
arrows, that is just adding shift to the command to go to top or bottom of
document.
You had asked about selecting text in a pdf, in some cases this works, in some
you have to use the select all method as previously noted by others. I have
found no rhyme or reason as to why it somethimes works, I got as far as finding
out it has something to do with teh encoding, but gave up when I realized you
can’t tell in advance if you’ll be able to select individual lines or
paragraphs. Basically I try once, if it doesn’t work I select all and
copy/paste into a document. Preview doesn’t have an option to export to plain
text, but Adobe Acrobat Reader does. Sometimes a text export works well,
sometimes the format gets so messed up that it really isnt’ helpful. My reading
indicates that this is because of how pdf was originally developed vor visual
presentation of documents across platforms, never being intended for
accessibility of the actual text. It was all about how it looked and printed no
matter what system you were using. Pdf has gotten better over the last 20
years, but it still has the ghosts of visual formatting built in.
On Dec 11, 2020, at 10:33 AM, Zoe Fiogkos (Redacted sender "fiogkos" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone, as always hope you are well.
Cand someone give me the basic commands for reading by line, word, caracter,
etc.
Also imposing further on your kindness, can you also give me the commands for
selecting text by line, word, caracter, etc.
Thank you very much.
Regards Zoe
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God the Son dwelt in her,
God the Spirit over shadowed her.
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