Sorry, that’s waht happens when I’m procrastinating work, I get a lot more
thorough.
Basically, get used to your navigation keys, then just add shift to select
while you go.
Ian
On Dec 11, 2020, at 11:21 AM, Zoe Fiogkos (Redacted sender "fiogkos" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
oh my God, that’s alot to take in. I think it will take me a while to get use
to this, and all these commands. Thank you so much, i will have to save this
email for reference. How do I read a word by caracter?
On Dec 11, 2020, at 1:01 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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