I need to be able to e-mail documents composed in Pages to someone in Word
format. I have been doing this literally every day for years now -- it's
what I do for work -- but, with the new version of Pages that I just now
put on my Macbook Air, I can't figure out how to do this. Help, please!
can interact with each one to see what it is, but you
have to route the mouse to one of them in order to select one. There also
doesn’t seem to be any indication that one is chosen, but it looks like it
can be done.
Hope that helps.
On Oct 23, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Howard Dupuis hdu
After upgrading to the newest OS yesterday, I can't read Bookshare books in
Safari, which is how I like to read 'em. What I've always done is just
download the book, open the xml file -- and I'd be good to go. No more.
Safari opens a completely blank file.
I've got no idea why this might have
Should have said that I'm talking about 10.8.2 on the mac -- not the new
iOS. Thanks.
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:45:10 PM UTC-4, Howard Dupuis wrote:
After upgrading to the newest OS yesterday, I can't read Bookshare books
in Safari, which is how I like to read 'em. What I've always
Has anyone figured out a way to get around -- or get rid of -- the
annoyingly sluggish response time when typing -- it's happening as I
write this -- under Lion? I've found it in Pages, in Mail, in form
fields on Safari. I've found it everywhere, actually. I'm using Alex
and don't wish to switch,
All of a sudden, and for no reason I can think of, the command VO-j,
which I use a million times each day in Mac Mail to jump from a
message in the inbox to that actual message, isn't working. Instead of
doing what it's supposed to do, it interacts with the list of
mailboxes. Huh? Yes, I've tried
Am I understanding correctly that we'll soon be able to read iBooks on
the Mac? If iCloud is going to be synching all devices, then a book I
purchase on my iPod Touch would be available on my Mac, too, no? I'm
hoping so.
Thanks.
-- Howard
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Denise Avant wrote:
hello all,
i recently ripped five complete cds with itunes. i see the individual songs
in my music list. but how are they suppose to come out as albums which is
what i wanted. i do not want to have to build a playlist for one of michael
jackson's albums.
thanks.
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Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are
supposedly going to be part of Lion.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/16/listen-to-the-nuance-text-to-speech-voices-found-in-mac-os-x-lion/
If this means that Alex will be gone, then I'll not be upgrading.
These voices, at least to my
On my bank's website, there's a clickable element that ends with a
right pointing double arrow. (It changes whether you are viewing
just the past 30 days, or a longer period.) However, no matter what
kind of key command, or mouse command, or prayerful command I use,
nothing seems to happen. Is
Has anyone had any luck reading anything on The Washington Post's
newly updated website, especially when viewing the today's paper
link? I'm finding it essentially unusable, with links that are nothing
more than numbers, many of 'em leading nowhere I'd want to go. The old
WaPo was never the
I have the previous generation MBA -- with an SS drive. It's got
plenty of power for what I do -- mostly reading and writing -- though
it might not be the ticket for someone who is looking for all sorts of
ports, etc. Depends what you will be doing.
It really is astonishingly light. When I first
I've frequently had problems when using Google News. VO will crash,
restart, crash, restart, etc. If I quit Safari and try again, it might
be OK -- or not. Haven't, thankfully, encountered this problem when
using regular old Google.
chad baker wrote:
Hi guys i'm having the same problem with
Hello all. I may have found the reason why iTunes was crashing, for me
at least. Perhaps others who had been experiencing the same will
benefit.
If the mouse cursor tracks the VO cursor, iTunes will crash -- easily
and often -- especially when mucking around with the playlist browser.
(A very
Some more details: I'm not talking about the store. When I select
Music under the sources list, then VO-right arrow over to the
playlist browser, it sometimes crashes right then. At other times I
can actually choose and artist or an album -- woohoo! -- before it
then crashes. I've rebooted. I've
It's way worse than I had imagined. Go to the Playlist browser, make a
selection, and iTunes crashes. Try it again, and the same thing
happens. This is ridiculous. Apple just touted accessibility at its
recent shareholders meeting, but it can't even get iTunes to work with
VO without crashing. Is
Not sure about what to do with Text Edit, but with Pages, the
following will do the trick:
1) Select the whole document, assuming you want the whole thing double
spaced. (Command-a).
2) Open the document inspector, choose the Text radio button, and
the Text tab below that.
3) Using VO and the
And they appear in your library however you choose to have them
sorted -- by track, alphabetically by name (or the reverse of that),
by time, shortest first or longest first -- totally your call. To play
an album as it would be heard if you played the CD, just arrange the
songs by track.
On Dec
There is much in The Washington Post that I'd care to read, but Safari
repeatedly crashes when I click on various links throughout the day.
Not always, but often. And nearly always when I try to access
something from WaPo e-mail newsletters I subscribe to. I'm assuming --
perhaps not correctly --
Hi listers,
The mistake in the subject line -- the lack of a space following the
comma after the word punctuation -- is intentional, and intended to
show the problem. Back in the old days, when I was using Windows and
Word (with JAWS), the Word spell checker would flag those kinds of
problems,
You want a very simple solution, a way to use eBay without having to
install something, without having to stand on your head or perform any
cyber rituals? Instead of going to ebay.com, direct Safari to:
http://hub.shop.ebay.com/
All will then be just fine. Not too terribly fancy, but it works for
Just noticed that a relative handful of music files are out of place
on the external drive that holds my iTunes music. I've got a Mac Mini
with an attached drive. There, inside a folder inside another folder,
there are hundreds of other (artist) folders, each containing albums,
each of those
Anyone got any idea why VO would stop telling me the page in a Pages
document (VO says page 3 of 10 or some such), but this feature
continues to work just fine in other Pages documents. Also -- and
oddly -- if I copy the whole file and paste it *without formatting*
into a brand new file, it still
In the U.S., at least, it's only the eBay homepage that causes this
problem, as far as I have found, anyway. I just go to:
http://hub.shop.ebay.com/
and all is just fine and dandy.
anouk radix wrote:
Hello, i just did a software update but I am not sure if this changed
anything to safari.
News of an upcoming Kindle reader for the Mac has me hoping -- like
Charlie Brown with the football? -- that Amazon will get this one
right. They promised back in March that they'd get the text-to-speech
feature working on the Kindle menus, but that has come to nothing. The
Kindle app for the
team.
Thanks for your interest in Amazon Kindle.
In other words, blah blah blah.
Howard Dupuis wrote:
News of an upcoming Kindle reader for the Mac has me hoping -- like
Charlie Brown with the football? -- that Amazon will get this one
right. They promised back in March that they'd get
Is there an easy way to get VO to announce the word count in a Pages
document? (Other than by going to the document inspector, I mean.)
Separately, VO stopped announcing page numbers in a document I'm
currently working on -- though that feature still works in other files
-- and I can't figure out
After performing a clean install of Snow Leopard on my Mac Mini (for
audiophiliac reasons), I have got everything pretty much as I want it
-- except for one thing: I now have playlists on my iPod that are not
on iTunes. Is there any way to move them back to iTunes from the iPod?
Thanks, folks.
--
Hi John,
I was having the very same (and very annoying) problem, but found a
way around by bookmarking the following:
http://hub.shop.ebay.com/
This seems to work just fine. The other, though, still crashes Safari.
-- Howard
John J Herzog wrote:
Hi all,
Lately, whenever I go to www.ebay.com
Did you try the link I posted right above your note? Works for me
every time.
Chris Blouch wrote:
Just verified that this still happens with Safari 4.0.4 and voiceover
running.
CB
Howard Dupuis wrote:
Hi John,
I was having the very same (and very annoying) problem, but found a
way
Just now learned that the paragraphs in a Pages document I'd thought
were indented are not, in fact, indented. Under tabs in text in the
document inspector, I've got 0.5 in indent for the first line of each
paragraph, but my sweetie tells me that there are no indents visible.
This comes after I
Good news about iTunes and use of the keyboard to get around the
Playlist Browser -- after you reboot. This is the first thing I
checked after installing the update the other night, only to find that
what had been broken appeared to remain so. But, after a reboot,
keyboard functionality was
What is your system? While I've got only about a quarter of the songs
you have, my Mac speeds along just fine and dandy. Are you using
iTunes? You wouldn't, perhaps, be using a Mac Mini without a monitor,
would you? (If so, I know what's holding things up.)
Please do tell more.
-- Howard
Tony
You should get the Unarchiver:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/theunarchiver.html
Unzip with this, and you'll be asked for your Bookshare password, and
you'll be good to go once you enter it.
Have fun!
Lindsay Yazzolino wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to unzip books from
JAWS needs this because it takes info off the screen and translates it
into something usable to us. Because VoiceOver doesn't work this way,
it doesn't need -- and doesn't have -- such a command. (I came over
from JAWS and had wondered the same thing.)
Not sure what it is that's screwing up the
Here's what someone I trust to know such things once told me when I
asked him a similar question: You don't *need* to have backed up,
unless something goes wrong, of course. I got his point.
On Oct 20, 9:34 am, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote:
Good morning everyone. I will be getting
I've been trying out groups mode on the Web, and have found that while
I quite like it on some sites, it can be astonishingly annoying and
difficult on others. Have folks here had similar experiences? Do you
find yourself switching back and forth between groups and DOM modes,
depending on the
What you are describing is what I found most frustrating when I made
the switch to the Mac. Thankfully, it became a jillion times easier,
at least on well-written Web sites, once I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
(I recognize that that is not an option for you at present on the
computer you are using.)
Yes, it's very annoying, isn't it? How's this for a work-around: If
you still have an old PC kicking around (with JAWS on it), the list of
possible CDs is accessible. Import it on that PC, and then use the
new home sharing feature on iTunes to transfer it from the PC to your
Mac. Not exactly the
Hi -- I've had good luck with the Unarchiver:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/theunarchiver.html
It's pretty straightforward, and gets the job done.
Howard
On Oct 7, 6:16 pm, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote:
Hi again. How do you open zip files with mac?
If you hold down the option key as you are launching iTunes, you'll be
given the opportunity to create a new library. (And where to put it,
too.) Then, just do the same again (hold the option key) when you
launch iTunes and you'll be asked to choose which library you want to
use.
Hope this helps.
It'll be a piece of cake. Just plug it in, and your MacBook will
recognize it. Is it already full of stuff? Do you know how it is
formatted? (I made the move from the Windows world to the Mac at the
end of last year and have learned a bit along the way, but the thing
I've found more than anything
Your MacBook will be able to read the files you have on your drive,
and can write to a FAT 32-formatted disc as well, so you shouldn't
have any difficulties at all. That said, one could make an argument
against continuing to use FAT 32 over the long term -- and in favor of
another format -- but
Do you have some reason to think that it won't? Like, it's formatted
in some particularly strange way or something?
Debra Turner wrote:
Hi All,
I ordered a MacBook pro which should be in near the end of this week.
Wonder if it will recognize my 1Tb Usb external hard disk?
Debra
This is how it was once explained to me when I was wondering the same
thing: Because Windows screen readers are operating as an overlay and
not as an integral part of the OS, most of them use something called
an off-screen model. What you are hearing is actually information that
the screen reader
Hi Kevin. While I've been a member of this group for only a matter of
weeks, and switched over to the Mac just nine months ago, I'd like to
make a point: I didn't make the switch casually, or easily, or without
a whole lot of thought. And after I made the move, I continued to use
my Windows
It is not just you. But for me, at least, it restarts as quickly as it
crashes.
Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear All,
I wonder whether any of you can test this and confirm. When I use
google search and bring up google text box with command+option+f, and
type my search and then press enter, and
Of Howard Dupuis
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:43 PM
To: MacVisionaries
Subject: Re: Oppose. Should have introduced myself
Hi Kevin. While I've been a member of this group for only a matter of weeks,
and switched over to the Mac just nine months ago, I'd like to make a point:
I didn't
If anyone can explain how this new column browser works ...
Ahh, there's the rub. No one will be able to explain it, because it
doesn't work. And for me, this problem began with Snow Leopard, not
with iTunes 9.
On Sep 13, 7:46 am, Scott Rutkowski scott7...@internode.on.net
wrote:
Hi all.
Does
Wait a minute here. What I was referring to -- and I think this is
what the original poster meant, too -- are things that used to work
but now do not. Before Snow Leopard, I could go to the playlist
browser, interact with it, and then just use the down arrow *or* hit a
key to take me down the
Thanks for this. One point, if I may: This is an issue with Snow
Leopard, not with iTunes. Note the following (my original post) begun
fully nine days before the new iTunes became available.
I'll betcha that this -- and many other iTunes problems -- will be
fixed later today with the release of iTunes 9. Here's hoping ...
On Sep 9, 9:53 am, william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all has anyone else noted under snowleopard one can't
arrow
through
I've found two things that help with this. First, be sure that Quick
Nav is off. Otherwise, VO gets stuck when it hits a submenu. Second.
try arrowing down the menu without using the VO keys and then entering
a submenu similarly. (Use the down arrow without holding anything
else. Then hit the
Thanks for this. It's pretty cool. Though I'm wondering if this is why
the Safari autofill feature is no longer working (at least for me) on
Google News.
On Sep 4, 7:43 pm, John J Herzog johnjher...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi listers,
If you go to google.com, and type in some search terms, you can
Goodness. This is a real problem. I checked it out and got, um, the
point, if you know what I mean.
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On Sep 4, 8:02 pm, Buddy Brannan bu...@brannan.name wrote:
Hi all,
Wonder who can replicate this? It's sort of important:
Just type in an IP address. Perhaps any IP address, but for
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