Tips and Tricks
Zooming In/Out for Windows
- Control and (-)/(+) keysZooming In/Out for Mac
- Command and Option, and (-)(+) keysBuild in Dictionary in Mac OS
- Select a word, Control-click word, and choose "Look Up in Dictionary" to quickly look up words while working in applications such as Mail or SafariText-to-Speech in Mac OS
- highlight text and press the key combination to hear the text spoken. You must first select your key combination in your System Preferences, such as Option and 1.1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Speech, and then click "Text to Speech."
Using Stickies on Mac to stay Focus
Do you have trouble remembering what you’re meant to be doing?...Read & Write gold (R&WG) for MAC and Adobe PDF access
The PDF aloud toolbar does NOT come up with Adobe Reader 8 or 9; it seems to work only with Adobe 7. Therefore, to use the R&WG PDF aloud toolbar, the Adobe Acrobat version 7 should be installed on the system and set as the default program for opening PDF files.In addition, disabling the auto-update for Adobe is important to ensure that a new version does not get installed and become the default.


