Just as in most other apps, you can use the shift key with the arrow keys and other modifiers to select. For instance, shift-down selects by line, shift-option-right selects by words, and so on. This is new as of OS X 10.11, I believe, so I'm assuming you have that. You could also move to the paragraph you want, then hit vo-shift-c to copy the whole thing to the clipboard at once.
That was great, thanks. I didn't know about this because it wasn't mentioned in the new features in OS X 10.11. Is this officially a feature? If so, where can I find new features like this? This is a great productivity booster for me.
what has helped me a lot is keyboard commands for pages. many of the commands work with pretty much any text I have encountered. You can do a search. They are easy to find online.
Applevis always offers a post on the notable features and bugs of major Apple releases. For instance, here's
our post for 10.11,
And this is
the one for 10.10.
When a new update comes out, watch our homepage and Twitter feed for these articles.
Unfortunately I have found it difficult to select blocks of text with VO-Return in Safari. Do I need to interact with text first? I've also tried this and still no joy most of the time. I'd love to hear from folks who can get VO-Return to select text blocks in Safari reliably.
Some websites are scripted and/or coded to not allow things like copy/pasting text, right clicking on images, etc, etc. The ability to do this has been around for ages, and there is not really anything you can do about it, short of OCR'ing it.
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Shift-arrows
Just as in most other apps, you can use the shift key with the arrow keys and other modifiers to select. For instance, shift-down selects by line, shift-option-right selects by words, and so on. This is new as of OS X 10.11, I believe, so I'm assuming you have that. You could also move to the paragraph you want, then hit vo-shift-c to copy the whole thing to the clipboard at once.
Awesome!
That was great, thanks. I didn't know about this because it wasn't mentioned in the new features in OS X 10.11. Is this officially a feature? If so, where can I find new features like this? This is a great productivity booster for me.
selecting text
what has helped me a lot is keyboard commands for pages. many of the commands work with pretty much any text I have encountered. You can do a search. They are easy to find online.
"What's New" for macOS releases
Applevis always offers a post on the notable features and bugs of major Apple releases. For instance, here's our post for 10.11, And this is the one for 10.10. When a new update comes out, watch our homepage and Twitter feed for these articles.
Shift-arrows
Shift-arrows has worked as of 10.8 though it wasn't as reliable then. Before that there was another way, and still is, to select text using VO+return.
VO-Return in Safari
Unfortunately I have found it difficult to select blocks of text with VO-Return in Safari. Do I need to interact with text first? I've also tried this and still no joy most of the time. I'd love to hear from folks who can get VO-Return to select text blocks in Safari reliably.
Thanks.
not working with all sites
Hello all:
do not know why, but shift arrows is not working with all sites, is it some kind of protection or what?
Thanks in advance
Yes
Some websites are scripted and/or coded to not allow things like copy/pasting text, right clicking on images, etc, etc. The ability to do this has been around for ages, and there is not really anything you can do about it, short of OCR'ing it.
wish to have a solution
very strange, but wish we have a solution for this