Hi, Check out the Numbers app. It is to Excel as Pages is to Word. Haven't checked it out much, though I had the notion at one time that I might be able to use it for working on spreadsheets while I'm away from the computer, since I can't do that on my BrailleNote Apex. I could sort of navigate around in a spreadsheet but I couldn't figure out how to tell VO where the column and row headings were, which is crucial for me. . It turned out to be a brief exercise in frustration, so until VO gets sophisticated enough to let me do what I want to do effectively, I'll do spreadsheets on my PC. Tom
----- Original Message ----- From: Blind Treasures To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 5:41 AM Subject: RE: Using Pages With A Braille Display This is not exactly the same topic but I am wanting to know if anyone has used pages with an Excel sheet? I am having to use Excel sheets in my business but don't want to purchase Pages if it doesn't do what I want or VoiceOver wont allow me to. Thanks for any help. Blind Treasures Phone: (804)-726-8900 Sales: sa...@blindtreasures.com Skype: kingmeade Web Page: http://www.blindtreasures.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 9:12 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Using Pages With A Braille Display Alan, If you have a very long document, double tapping doesn't move you to the end of the document. For example, I have a recipe book that is about 150 pages in Word. In the Pages app, it has 475 pages, which are really screens, I think. If I double tap and VoiceOver says Cursor at End, then touch with three fingers, I am on page 6 of 475. If I use a QWERTY keyboard and the command plus down-arrow command, and then touch with three fingers, I hear page 474 of 475. There are some blank lines at the end of the document that cause the page total to be 475, but the text actually ends on 474.. So, while VoiceOver may tell you it is at the end, the chances are it is not. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 2:34 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Using Pages With A Braille Display In my iPhone 4 you can move from the beginning or the end of the document by double tapping on the field useful if you want to add text ahead of what's already there. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Using Pages With A Braille Display 1) With the rotor you can only navigate by character, word, and line. However, dots 1 3 5 chord with space bar scrolls right one page; dots 2 4 6 chord scrolls left one page; dots 1 4 5 6 chord scrolls up one page; and dots 3 4 5 6 chord scrolls down one page. In most circumstances, page equals screen. 2) Single finger double tap on the active edit field moves the cursor/focus to the beginning and the end of the active field. On my RefreshaBraille 18, pressing the joystick like a button activates the single finger double tap. Dots 1 3 chord places you in keyboard help. You can then press any buttons or combinations and VO will announce the function. Pressing dots 1 2 chord ends keyboard help. 3) Not that I know of. 4) When a word is misspelled and you receive the sound, do a single finger right flick to find the first suggestion. Continue flicking through the suggestions. In text messages, corrections sometimes appear before the text message (left flick rather than right flick). If you place the cursor at the end of a misspelled word using a cursor routing button, sometimes the misspelled words will be signified. Unfortunately, there are no notification marks like underline of each misspelled word. Sometimes I need to press space followed by dot 7 chord (backspace) to get the suggested words to pop up. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 28/01/2013, at 9:24, Tom Lange <lang...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I've been really curious about using Pages with a Braille display, so I began playing with it the other day while I was on the way home from work. Using my iPhone 4 with a BrailleNote Apex, I was able to use the Pages app to create a document, then e-mail the document to myself. The document was in Word format. I was a little disappointed that I couldn't put the document straight into Dropbox, but I'll worry about that later. Anyway, I have some basic questions. 1. Using the rotor, I was able to navigate through the document by character, word and line. Is there a way that I can navigate by paragraph or page? 2. In a conventional PC-based word processor or text editor I can go straight to the top or bottom of a file at will. Is there a way to do that in Pages? 3. Is there a way of temporarily restricting Vo so that I don't inadvertently stumble into the toolbar? 4. One more, and then I'm out of here for now. I'm a pretty good speller, but if I do make a mistake, VO will inform me that the word that I just typed was misspelled. Short of manually editing the misspelled word, how can I correct it? I tried double-tapping on the word and couldn't figure out how to bring up any suggested alternatives. How do you do that? On a related note, once the document has been drafted, is there a way to spell-check the entire thing as one would with the spell-checker in Word? Okay, that's enough for now. Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. 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