Escape Key was Speakable Items

2013-12-10 Thread Lee Jones
Dear List I have noticed that my escape key does not seem to work, I can be in a menu and the hint says press escape to exit the menu but it doesn't work. This is probably why speakable items fails. Is there any software explanation for this or is my escape key physically broken? Is it

Re: Escape Key was Speakable Items

2013-12-10 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, The same happened here after attempting to use speakable items. Gena On 10 Dec 2013, at 14:48, Lee Jones leejones...@sky.com wrote: Dear List I have noticed that my escape key does not seem to work, I can be in a menu and the hint says press escape to exit the menu but it doesn’t

Re: Escape Key was Speakable Items

2013-12-10 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi I changed the hot key to F12 instead of escape on my Apple bluetooth keyboard and it works fine! Colin On 10 Dec 2013, at 16:22, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello, The same happened here after attempting to use speakable items. Gena On 10 Dec 2013, at 14:48, Lee Jones

Re: Escape Key was Speakable Items

2013-12-10 Thread BBS
Hi Gina and Lee. If your escape key doesn't work, you can also program it to listen for a key word. For example, if you wanted the keyword to be Siri, you could program it to respond everytime you say Siri. After you say the keyword, it'll make a sound and then you can issue the command you

Re: Escape Key was Speakable Items

2013-12-10 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Collin, I can confirm that I changing from Esc worked here. However, I couldn’t get F12 to work. The widgets calculator likes F12. I wanted to use numeric zero but it wouldn’t have that, so I thought I’d try F12. By accepting Option + F12 Essc works as the backward command i.e.

Re: Escape Key was Speakable Items

2013-12-10 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Gena! Sorry I forgot I'd unselected f12 to open dashboard in the keyboard pref's I do not use it! That's why f12 works for me OK! *smile* Colin On 10 Dec 2013, at 17:11, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello Collin, I can confirm that I changing from Esc worked here. However, I

Re: Escape Key was Speakable Items

2013-12-10 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, I haven’t checked but I guess I can’t use numeric pad zero is because of using the commander. Although, I didn’t think I’d left it on. No need to apologise, thanks for the heads up on where to turn that pesty thing off. Gena On 10 Dec 2013, at 18:22, Red.Falcon