Category: Geeks r Us
Hi there.
I finally did it! I broke down and bought a Mac! Holy cow! Why did I ever wait so long? lol
Anyway, aside from raving about how absolutely awesome it is, I do have 2 quick questions.
1. Is there a shortcut key and/or a trackpad jesture to access the toolbar in apps? I've looked high and low but haven't found even the mention of such a thing so of course I came to my favorite techies.
2. Sadly, as much as I love my Mac, iTunes still confounds me at times. lol. I'm trying to edit the tags on some of the incorrect ones in my library. I understand that I'm to highlight the track who's info I want to edit, press command I to bring up the get info dialogue box, and then tab through and edit what needs to be edited. That isn't working however. Apparently, I'm not selecting what I am trying to select and when I do get the right track in the dialogue, it isn't letting me edit the artist info. Any suggestions?
Thanks very much for any help you can offer.
When you say you want to access the toolbar are you meaning the actual toolbar or the menu bar?
I'm referring to the tool bar. For example, if I'm in Safari and want to go back a page, currently, I'm doing a 2-finger swipe up to go to the top of the page, stopping interacting with the page, swiping twice to the left to get to the tool bar and then interacting with it. It would be great if there were a shorter way to do all of that.
there is not, but you do have short cut keys. command [ goes back and command ] well, you get the idea. just post here or private message me if you have any other questions.
Oh, sweet. Thanks. That helps allot.
Many times if you go to the menu bar by pressing control-f2 or Control-Option-M the shortcuts will be displayed in the menu selections. Example: go to safari and activate the menu bar. Press the right arrow until you hear history. Press down arrow and notice that after each item you'll hear the shortcut that goes with it.
If there is a place in an application that you want to be able to return too example a tool bar at the top of the screen setting a hotspot will work. Place your Voiceover curser on the toolbar and press Control-option and a number from 0 to 9 depending on what you want the spot to be. This will create the hotspot. now, when you are reading a web page and want to return to the hot spot just press control-option and the number you assigned the spot too. Your focus will return to the tool bar and interaction will begin. You'll need to set this for each application but the spot should be saved after that. If you set lots of spots you might want to export your voiceover preferences to a file so you have them just incase something goes horribly wrong.
Thanks very much.
here are the most used shortcuts. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
/sandi
I am a fairly new mac user as well. I've been accustomed to windows, so it's
definitely a learning curve.