Hi folks, The command for using the spell checker is, command-shift-colon HTH. Keith Reedy keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx On Apr 28, 2011, at 11:07 AM, James Dean wrote: > This is happening because, by default, Voiceover announces text that is under > the cursor instead of speaking the letter to the right of the cursor, as > windows does. To change this, press VO+F8 and select "Verbosity" from the > categories table. VO+right until you get to the "text" tab and select it with > VO+Space. Find the pop-up button that says, "when moving the cursor," and > change the selection to "Speak text to the right of the cursor." > > As for using the spellchecker, a couple of things. First, find the > miss-spelled word and press VO+shift+M to bring up a menu that will have a > list of suggested corrections and pick one. There is also a command to open > the spellchecker that Keith mentioned, I know it's something+semi-colon, but > can't remember what the rest of the keys in the combination are. LOL. > > HTH a little anyway, > > James A. Dean > > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Craig Dunlop wrote: > >> On my mac I am having a hard time editing documents ore emails because it >> will say the letter twice even when only one exists. >> Is there a setting I am missing? >> And does anyone have any quick tips for using the spellchecker? >> > > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >