Hi there, One useful feature in Lion is the ability to use VO to select things. I've managed to select text in pages and Preview using the following method. I don't to pretend to have tested it thoroughly, and I might be wrong about some details, so don't shoot the messenger. :-)
1. find the block of text on the page and then interact. 2. Now, use vo-Enter to start the selection process. 3. Move along with vo-rightarrow until you hit the end of the text you want, then press vo-enter again. 4. Now hit cmd-c, and go to the textedit window you want to copy the text to. As I said, may be useful, may not. Dónal On 24 Jul 2011, at 20:38, John Panarese wrote: > The service is still there. You might have to go into System Preferences > under the Keyboard pane in the shortcuts view to activate it again. At > least, I had to do this to get it to work again. > > Take Care > John Panarese > jpanar...@mac-access.net > > > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > >> Hello, >> Has anyone discovered a good way to select a block of text from a web page >> on Lion so that the text can be pasted into another document? >> >> On Snow Leopard I used to press command+A to select all the text in the >> Safari window, then use the Safari service "new textedit window containing >> selection" which would copy the Safari text into a TextEdit window, and then >> copy the required text from the textedit window. Alas the service option >> "new TextEdit window containing selection" seems to have been removed in >> Lion. On Snow Leopard I was sometimes able to simply interact with the >> Safari page and use the arrow keys to select the desired text in the normal >> way. That does not seem to work on Lion either. >> >> So I tried the attached approach (which I had never used on Snow Leopard) >> and that does not seem to work on Lion either! >> >> I can manually create an empty textedit window and copy the Safari page into >> that and then select the desired text from there but that is hard work! I >> feel there should be an easier approach. >> >> Many thanks for any ideas. >> >> Paul Hopewell >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> >>> Subject: Selecting a block of text from a website >>> Date: 23 March 2011 19:49:03 GMT >>> To: Mac iOS Accessibility OSX & <mac-access@mac-access.net> >>> Reply-To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility <mac-access@mac-access.net> >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Here's how to select part of a web page and copy it into a text document. >>> >>> • Find the start point for your selection and set a hotspot >>> (VO-Shift-number), it must not be a link; >>> • Find the end point for your selection and set a second hotspot, once >>> again, not a link; >>> • Turn cursor tracking off (VO-Shift-F3); >>> • Bring the mouse to the hotspot (VO-Cmd-F5); >>> • Check that the mouse is actually on the hotspot (VO-F5); >>> • Click the physical mouse or trackpad; >>> • Go to first hotspot (VO-number); >>> • Bring the mouse to the hotspot; >>> • Check that the mouse is on the hotspot; >>> • Hold down the Shift key and click the mouse or trackpad; >>> • Press Cmd-C to copy the text. >>> >>> If you've succeeded in highlighting text, you'll hear "Copy". >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> mac-access@mac-access.net >>> >>> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >>> Mac-Access forum at: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> >>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>> and worm-free! >>> >>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>> the list website at: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! 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