Well, it's working now. I put the mac to sleep last night, and tried again this morning, and all is as it should be. Go figure! I also discovered the incredibly useful, of verbose, "speak text changes" option in the verbosity settings, which let me just read my document and hear all my style and alignment changes. Very handy! On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex > I did some experimentation this morning with TextEdit. Since I do a lot of > work with TextEdit for my business, I would be concerned if a bug like this > happened. I am not having the same problems you are having with your file. I > tried it with the keyboard and with the menu, and mine worked perfectly. > Therefore, and I have had to do this after an update occurred, maybe you > might want to shut your computer down and restart it again. I have had some > weird things happen after an update. I know this sounds weird, but even > though my computer restarts after the update automatically, I almost always > have to do it again. Usually, the problems I have had after a major update > like this one have had to do with Finder, but I suppose anything could be > effected. It can't hurt. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Jun 5, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks everyone. The file is plaintext for now, but I'll save it as RTF or >> doc since it will have to work on Windows machines. Since the text aligns to >> the center, I know it is not my text type, or at least I don't think it is. >> I'll try a single line at a time, and no, I'm not trying to put multiple >> allignments on one line. I have my header (company name, date, title) >> centered, then I have a list of information I want on the left, then a >> series of paragraphs I want on the left, each of which has a centered title. >> I'll grab someone to visually inspect the file, I was just hoping to not >> have to do that; the Mac is usually so accessible, I hate to ask for help >> using it. <smile> Oh, and yes, I am interacting with the text. >> On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Gavin Grundlingh <g.batw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Also, I forgot to ask, and this may sound like a stupid question, but are >>> you trying to edit plain text or rich text? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Gavin Grundlingh >>> Primary Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 >>> Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 >>> Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 >>> Primary Email: g.batw...@gmail.com >>> Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za >>> Skype: Batworx >>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/gavin.grundlingh >>> Twitter: @Batworx >>> >>> On 05 Jun 2013, at 12:23 PM, Gavin Grundlingh <g.batw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I've been playing with this for about a half hour now, and I've only >>> managed to successfully get the alignment to read out correctly if I change >>> it on single lines or paragraphs at a time. Using multiple alignments on >>> one line doesn't seem to work. Weather you can do this visually, I'm not >>> sure, but VoiceOver doesn't seem to pick them up if I do it that way. I >>> also experimented with font size, style and colour changes, and VoiceOver >>> read those out correctly. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Gavin Grundlingh >>> Primary Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 >>> Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 >>> Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 >>> Primary Email: g.batw...@gmail.com >>> Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za >>> Skype: Batworx >>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/gavin.grundlingh >>> Twitter: @Batworx >>> >>> On 05 Jun 2013, at 12:18 PM, "Chris Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> MS Word? Wait a minute! Since when has that been accessible on the mac? >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugenia Firth" <gigifi...@me.com> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:18 PM >>> Subject: Re: aligning text in Text Edit? >>> >>> >>> Yes, I think I have an idea here. Whenever I want to change centering, >>> italics, bold, etc., I put a space after the text I am emphasizing. I'm not >>> sure this is necessary, but I select that space and put it back into plain >>> mode or whatever the next thing is I want to be in. I had this trouble with >>> MS Word as well, and ever since I started doing this, I have not had >>> trouble changing my text. >>> >>> Gigi >>> >>> On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I'm writing a template to use for client reports, and I'm using Text Edit. >>>> I also have iText Express, but I have not yet tried that. The problem is >>>> that, after I center my title, I can't seem to un-center anything else. >>>> That is, even after I hit cmd-left brace and vo says "align left checked", >>>> hitting vo-t on text that should not be centered reports it as centered. >>>> It seems as though the whole file is stuck in this "align center" mode and >>>> I can't work out how to un-center parts of it. Any ideas? Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>> mehg...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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