Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread isaac
Hello there welcome to the world of the mac. First you probably would want to 
go through the voiceover  quick start to do that press control option command 
function f 8 to open it then use you're left and right arrows to move forward 
and back through the quick start guide. The quick start will get you started 
with how to use voiceover such as using it to interact with tables and other 
basic voiceover commands you will need to use the mac.
On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote:

 Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of course 
 coming from the world of windows I'm totally lost. However I am also excited 
 to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong to this 
 great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like I'm at 
 the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I'm looking 
 forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain.
 The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My 
 first questions that I need help with is as follows.
 One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in other 
 languages and one of those languages is my native tongue.  I've downloaded 
 the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I have also 
 added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point everything is 
 okay.
 I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to 
 Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works.  Heres where the 
 first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start typing 
 everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to the Greek 
 voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the body of 
 the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the internet.
 Can anyone help.  I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in 
 the doc but I don't think I have pages even though its listed in the doc.
 The second problem is I can't find a hotkey for switching voices/languages 
 with a hotkey.
 Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard?  I don't want to 
 always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just 
 to switch voices or languages, I'm assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for 
 this action.
 Of course I have a thousand more questions but let's start with these, and 
 hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else.
 I would appreciate any help and advice.
 Thanks in advance,
 Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user,
 Zoe
 
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Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread isaac
To switch voices press control option command left arrow and right arrow and 
use the up and arrows to  to make ajustments.
On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote:

 Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of course 
 coming from the world of windows I'm totally lost. However I am also excited 
 to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong to this 
 great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like I'm at 
 the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I'm looking 
 forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain.
 The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My 
 first questions that I need help with is as follows.
 One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in other 
 languages and one of those languages is my native tongue.  I've downloaded 
 the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I have also 
 added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point everything is 
 okay.
 I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to 
 Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works.  Heres where the 
 first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start typing 
 everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to the Greek 
 voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the body of 
 the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the internet.
 Can anyone help.  I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in 
 the doc but I don't think I have pages even though its listed in the doc.
 The second problem is I can't find a hotkey for switching voices/languages 
 with a hotkey.
 Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard?  I don't want to 
 always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just 
 to switch voices or languages, I'm assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for 
 this action.
 Of course I have a thousand more questions but let's start with these, and 
 hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else.
 I would appreciate any help and advice.
 Thanks in advance,
 Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user,
 Zoe
 
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RE: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
I will try this option and let you all know how it works. Also you mentioned
the quickstart voiceover tutorial and yes I did this and it has helped a
little. Of course I have a lot of knew keyboard commands to memorize and it
will take a while. Thank you for your help. Will try your recommendation
soon.
 
 
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of isaac
Sent: February-26-14 9:56 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: new mac user please help
 
To switch voices press control option command left arrow and right arrow and
use the up and arrows to  to make ajustments.
On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote:



Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of
course coming from the world of windows I'm totally lost. However I am also
excited to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong
to this great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like
I'm at the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I'm
looking forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain.
The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My
first questions that I need help with is as follows.
One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in
other languages and one of those languages is my native tongue.  I've
downloaded the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I
have also added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point
everything is okay.
I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to
Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works.  Heres where the
first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start
typing everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to
the Greek voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the
body of the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the
internet.
Can anyone help.  I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in
the doc but I don't think I have pages even though its listed in the doc.
The second problem is I can't find a hotkey for switching voices/languages
with a hotkey.
Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard?  I don't want to
always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just
to switch voices or languages, I'm assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for
this action.
Of course I have a thousand more questions but let's start with these, and
hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else.
I would appreciate any help and advice.
Thanks in advance,
Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user,
Zoe
 
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Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Zoe,

To get rid of the conflict between new keyboard layout and Spotlight search, 
open System Preferences and go to the Keyboard pane. Select Shortcuts tab, 3 of 
4, then navigate right to the Shortcuts categories table and interact with it. 
Navigate down to Spotlight. Stop interacting with that table and navigate right 
to the next one which will say Spotlight shortcuts table. Interact and uncheck 
the check box for Show Spotlight search field ⌘Space.

Cheers,

Anne


On 26 Feb 2014, at 15:48, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote:

 Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of course 
 coming from the world of windows I’m totally lost. However I am also excited 
 to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong to this 
 great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like I’m at 
 the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I’m looking 
 forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain.
 The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My 
 first questions that I need help with is as follows.
 One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in other 
 languages and one of those languages is my native tongue.  I’ve downloaded 
 the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I have also 
 added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point everything is 
 okay.
 I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to 
 Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works.  Heres where the 
 first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start typing 
 everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to the Greek 
 voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the body of 
 the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the internet.
 Can anyone help.  I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in 
 the doc but I don’t think I have pages even though its listed in the doc.
 The second problem is I can’t find a hotkey for switching voices/languages 
 with a hotkey.
 Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard?  I don’t want to 
 always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just 
 to switch voices or languages, I’m assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for 
 this action.
 Of course I have a thousand more questions but let’s start with these, and 
 hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else.
 I would appreciate any help and advice.
 Thanks in advance,
 Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user,
 Zoe
 
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RE: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Jamie Pauls
Be aware that VO F8 twice will bring you to the list of VoiceOver keyboard
commands. The commands are grouped in such a way that you can easily locate
what you need when you need it. There are a potentially overwhelming number
of VO commands to learn if you try to memorize them all at once, so you're
better off learning the ones you need as you complete your daily tasks on
the Mac.

 

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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Zoe Fiogkos
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:38 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: new mac user please help

 

I will try this option and let you all know how it works. Also you mentioned
the quickstart voiceover tutorial and yes I did this and it has helped a
little. Of course I have a lot of knew keyboard commands to memorize and it
will take a while. Thank you for your help. Will try your recommendation
soon.

 

 

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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of isaac
Sent: February-26-14 9:56 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: new mac user please help

 

To switch voices press control option command left arrow and right arrow and
use the up and arrows to  to make ajustments.

On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote:





Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of
course coming from the world of windows I'm totally lost. However I am also
excited to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong
to this great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like
I'm at the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I'm
looking forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain.

The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My
first questions that I need help with is as follows.

One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in
other languages and one of those languages is my native tongue.  I've
downloaded the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I
have also added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point
everything is okay.

I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to
Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works.  Heres where the
first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start
typing everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to
the Greek voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the
body of the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the
internet.

Can anyone help.  I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in
the doc but I don't think I have pages even though its listed in the doc.

The second problem is I can't find a hotkey for switching voices/languages
with a hotkey.

Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard?  I don't want to
always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just
to switch voices or languages, I'm assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for
this action.

Of course I have a thousand more questions but let's start with these, and
hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else.

I would appreciate any help and advice.

Thanks in advance,

Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user,

Zoe

 

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Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Zoe,

Welcome to the group. I, too, am a Greek speaker and I, too, chose to switch to 
Mac because of the many language Apple offers. I've learnt Greek, and in fact, 
I'm still continuing my classes with a tutor in Cyprus.

Now to your questions. Isaac has already told you how to switch languages on 
the fly. I hope that this is working well for you now.

The second point is more complex, and I will try to explain. My knowledge of 
this comes from the very many exchanges I've had over the years with the 
members of the group, so I owe it all to them.

The reason why you call up spotlight search is that the shortcut key 
combination command+spacebar is assigned to spotlight. You need to disassociate 
this combination with spotlight and than assign it or activate it for the input 
source. It's a while since I have done it, so forgive me if I make an error. 
Someone else on the list may correct me on this.

1. Open system preferences by going to the dock with control+f3. You should 
here voiceover say dock. Once in the dock, you can type three first letters 
sys to land immediately on system preferences. Press enter. System 
preferences will open. You will be probably in the toolbar of system 
preferences where you have back forward buttons and search field. Stop 
interacting with the toolbar by pressing vo+shift+uparrow and vo + right arrow 
when you will here preferences pane. 

2. Interact with preference pain and vo+right arrow to find the button 
keyboard or else start typing the word keyboard and you should land on this 
button. Press vo+spacebar on this button to open keyboard preferences.

3. In keyboard preferences you will have several tabs. As you vo+right arrow 
through the window, you will hear the word tab and highlighted. The highlighted 
tab is th the one which is currently active. 

4. Find the tab which says shortcuts. Press vo+spacebar on it to highlighted. 
It will now read highlighted. Continue vo+right arrow to find two tables 
where you will need to make choices and perform actions. Remember to interact 
with a table you need to press vo+shift+down arrow and to stop interacting you 
press vo+shift+uparrow. Once you interact with the table you can vo+down or up 
arrow through the rows and vo+left or right arrow to examine each row.

5. Interact with the first table and find the category spotlight. Once you 
land on it, stop interacting with the table. The item spotlight will now be 
highlighted. Move vo+right to the next table of shortcuts. 

6. Interact with the second table and uncheck the boxes next to the spotlight 
actions. 

7. Stop interacting with the table and move back to the previous table of 
shortcut categories. Interact with it and find the category input source'. 
Stop interacting and move to the shortcuts table

8. Interact with shortcuts table and vo+down arrow until you find previous and 
next input source items. To the left of each item there's a checkbox. Check 
them and to the right of each item there should be a description of the 
shortcut key. 

This is the point where my memory fails me. I can't now remember whether I had 
assigned command+spacebar to the next input source myself or whether it was 
already assigned and I just needed to check the box next to the action item. I 
hope the latter is the case. Try this, and if it doesn't work, you will need to 
assign the shortcut combination. I hope it won't be necessary. 

I did however have to assign a new shortcut to Spotlight. This is maybe for 
later.

Hope this helps, and if you have any more questions, please ask.

Also, there's a very useful macvisionaries archive page whose url is:
macvisionaries

With best wishes

Simon


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Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
nope, its not VO f8, its VO + H
On 26 Feb 2014, at 05:55 pm, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Be aware that VO F8 twice will bring you to the list of VoiceOver keyboard 
 commands. The commands are grouped in such a way that you can easily locate 
 what you need when you need it. There are a potentially overwhelming number 
 of VO commands to learn if you try to memorize them all at once, so you're 
 better off learning the ones you need as you complete your daily tasks on the 
 Mac.
  
 From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
 [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Zoe Fiogkos
 Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:38 AM
 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
 Subject: RE: new mac user please help
  
 I will try this option and let you all know how it works. Also you mentioned 
 the quickstart voiceover tutorial and yes I did this and it has helped a 
 little. Of course I have a lot of knew keyboard commands to memorize and it 
 will take a while. Thank you for your help. Will try your recommendation soon.
  
  
 From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
 [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of isaac
 Sent: February-26-14 9:56 AM
 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Re: new mac user please help
  
 To switch voices press control option command left arrow and right arrow and 
 use the up and arrows to  to make ajustments.
 On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote:
 
 
 Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of course 
 coming from the world of windows I'm totally lost. However I am also excited 
 to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong to this 
 great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like I'm at 
 the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I'm looking 
 forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain.
 The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My 
 first questions that I need help with is as follows.
 One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in other 
 languages and one of those languages is my native tongue.  I've downloaded 
 the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I have also 
 added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point everything is 
 okay.
 I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to 
 Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works.  Heres where the 
 first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start typing 
 everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to the Greek 
 voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the body of 
 the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the internet.
 Can anyone help.  I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in 
 the doc but I don't think I have pages even though its listed in the doc.
 The second problem is I can't find a hotkey for switching voices/languages 
 with a hotkey.
 Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard?  I don't want to 
 always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just 
 to switch voices or languages, I'm assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for 
 this action.
 Of course I have a thousand more questions but let's start with these, and 
 hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else.
 I would appreciate any help and advice.
 Thanks in advance,
 Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user,
 Zoe
  
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Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Jamie Pauls
What's that I was saying about learning commands? LOL thanks for the 
correction. I had been messing around and preferences and got those commands 
mixed up in my head.

Sent from my iPhone

 On Feb 26, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera dionip...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 nope, its not VO f8, its VO + H
 On 26 Feb 2014, at 05:55 pm, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Be aware that VO F8 twice will bring you to the list of VoiceOver keyboard 
 commands. The commands are grouped in such a way that you can easily locate 
 what you need when you need it. There are a potentially overwhelming number 
 of VO commands to learn if you try to memorize them all at once, so you’re 
 better off learning the ones you need as you complete your daily tasks on 
 the Mac.
  
 From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
 [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Zoe Fiogkos
 Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:38 AM
 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
 Subject: RE: new mac user please help
  
 I will try this option and let you all know how it works. Also you mentioned 
 the quickstart voiceover tutorial and yes I did this and it has helped a 
 little. Of course I have a lot of knew keyboard commands to memorize and it 
 will take a while. Thank you for your help. Will try your recommendation 
 soon.
  
  
 From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
 [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of isaac
 Sent: February-26-14 9:56 AM
 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Re: new mac user please help
  
 To switch voices press control option command left arrow and right arrow and 
 use the up and arrows to  to make ajustments.
 On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zoe Fiogkos fiog...@rogers.com wrote:
 
 
 Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of 
 course coming from the world of windows I’m totally lost. However I am also 
 excited to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong 
 to this great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like 
 I’m at the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I’m 
 looking forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain.
 The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My 
 first questions that I need help with is as follows.
 One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in 
 other languages and one of those languages is my native tongue.  I’ve 
 downloaded the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I 
 have also added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point 
 everything is okay.
 I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to 
 Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works.  Heres where the 
 first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start 
 typing everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to 
 the Greek voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the 
 body of the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the 
 internet.
 Can anyone help.  I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in 
 the doc but I don’t think I have pages even though its listed in the doc.
 The second problem is I can’t find a hotkey for switching voices/languages 
 with a hotkey.
 Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard?  I don’t want to 
 always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just 
 to switch voices or languages, I’m assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for 
 this action.
 Of course I have a thousand more questions but let’s start with these, and 
 hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else.
 I would appreciate any help and advice.
 Thanks in advance,
 Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user,
 Zoe
  
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