What gives with Spotlight and opening documents with the new software update?
Is it my imagination, user error, or both? I am growing increasingly frustrated this morning with my inability to open documents quickly from Spotlight or from the Documents folder. Before, I would search for a title or phrase, find it with Spotlight, and open it. Alternatively, I would choose a document from the documents folder, open it, and no problem. Now, unless I go into Text Edit, hit open, and use the list to locate my document, or type in a title, I get all sorts of nonsense to slog through, rather than a quickly opened file. For example, when using Spotlight, clicking on a file brings up the Spotlight preferences menu. When choosing a document in the documents folder, I get a tool bar, search, and all the weirdness that comes up lately when I try opening a bookshare book in Safari. Can anyone shed any light on this or tell me what the heck I can do to get things back to some semblance of normalcy? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: What gives with Spotlight and opening documents with the new software update?
You might have the toolbar of the application in focus when the file opens. Try stopping interaction with the toolbar with VO-shift-up-arrow and then navigate the text area. HtH, Teresa On Nov 9, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Is it my imagination, user error, or both? I am growing increasingly frustrated this morning with my inability to open documents quickly from Spotlight or from the Documents folder. Before, I would search for a title or phrase, find it with Spotlight, and open it. Alternatively, I would choose a document from the documents folder, open it, and no problem. Now, unless I go into Text Edit, hit open, and use the list to locate my document, or type in a title, I get all sorts of nonsense to slog through, rather than a quickly opened file. For example, when using Spotlight, clicking on a file brings up the Spotlight preferences menu. When choosing a document in the documents folder, I get a tool bar, search, and all the weirdness that comes up lately when I try opening a bookshare book in Safari. Can anyone shed any light on this or tell me what the heck I can do to get things back to some semblance of normalcy? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: What gives with Spotlight and opening documents with the new software update?
Hmm. Tried that. But I'll try again. Don't know what is going on here. Christine On Nov 9, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: You might have the toolbar of the application in focus when the file opens. Try stopping interaction with the toolbar with VO-shift-up-arrow and then navigate the text area. HtH, Teresa On Nov 9, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Is it my imagination, user error, or both? I am growing increasingly frustrated this morning with my inability to open documents quickly from Spotlight or from the Documents folder. Before, I would search for a title or phrase, find it with Spotlight, and open it. Alternatively, I would choose a document from the documents folder, open it, and no problem. Now, unless I go into Text Edit, hit open, and use the list to locate my document, or type in a title, I get all sorts of nonsense to slog through, rather than a quickly opened file. For example, when using Spotlight, clicking on a file brings up the Spotlight preferences menu. When choosing a document in the documents folder, I get a tool bar, search, and all the weirdness that comes up lately when I try opening a bookshare book in Safari. Can anyone shed any light on this or tell me what the heck I can do to get things back to some semblance of normalcy? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: What gives with Spotlight and opening documents with the new software update?
It may be that somehow your keyboard focus has gotten messed up. Try turning voiceover off and on again. Also, are you opening from spotlight with vo-keys or just with return. I always open items from spotlight with return only; to use vo-keys-space requires that both your voiceover cursor and your keyboard cursor be on the menu item and this isn't always the case. Finally, sometimes when i hit enter on an item in spotlight I'll hear something that makes it sounds like I'm ending up somewhere else: for instance, something about one of my menu extras. But when I arrow down in the window i am in, I find that I have indeed had Text Edit open the file. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. Tried that. But I'll try again. Don't know what is going on here. Christine On Nov 9, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: You might have the toolbar of the application in focus when the file opens. Try stopping interaction with the toolbar with VO-shift-up-arrow and then navigate the text area. HtH, Teresa On Nov 9, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Is it my imagination, user error, or both? I am growing increasingly frustrated this morning with my inability to open documents quickly from Spotlight or from the Documents folder. Before, I would search for a title or phrase, find it with Spotlight, and open it. Alternatively, I would choose a document from the documents folder, open it, and no problem. Now, unless I go into Text Edit, hit open, and use the list to locate my document, or type in a title, I get all sorts of nonsense to slog through, rather than a quickly opened file. For example, when using Spotlight, clicking on a file brings up the Spotlight preferences menu. When choosing a document in the documents folder, I get a tool bar, search, and all the weirdness that comes up lately when I try opening a bookshare book in Safari. Can anyone shed any light on this or tell me what the heck I can do to get things back to some semblance of normalcy? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
