formatting tables using pages and text edit

By dissonance, 9 September, 2013

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Hi, I'm hopeing to find some guidance and help with this. When I open a document using pages or text edit that I know contains a table, it appears that the columns reformat in to standard text and paragraph style and I am unable to tell what is a column and what isn't. I was looking at a document that had a table with multiple columns, and my sighted fiance indicated that when I was reading the document, I was missing a whole row of text. I tried the standard commands for navigating tables, but none of them worked, they only inserted tabs into the document. I know that with my old windows computer I was able to navigate tables using tabs etc., but when I use VO+right arrow or any of the other standard navigation commands, I have no indication that I'm even in a table unless I happen to be with someone to tell me or I'm using a windows computer in conjunction. Any suggestions? Is there a way to navigate tables more efficiently using these programs and VO?

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By Scott Davert on Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 00:33

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
In Pages, try the following. Interact with the body of the text and use your arrow keys to navigate to near the start of the table. When you hear "Space, highlighted", open the inspector (Command-Option-i) and select the 3rd button, Wrap. Then navigate right to the radio buttons and select Floating. Then, hide the inspector by pressing Command-Option-I again, and your table should be editable and show up as an additional item on the page.

By dissonance on Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 00:33

Thank you very much for your feedback. When I try that, the "floating" radio button is dimmed. Do you have any idea what I need to do ti get it to be clickable?