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.
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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.