Comments on: Letter Switch

By: Marilyn Young

Marilyn Young — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:26:45 +0000

I must not be holding my mouth right. I’ve tried this several times and several ways and it doesn’t work. I’m using WORD.

By: Marilyn Youg

Marilyn Youg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:25:40 +0000

I guess maybe I’m not holding my mouth right. I’ve tried this shortcut several times and ways and it does nothing. I’m using WORD.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:24:46 +0000

Yes, I agree with Tanya, the wording of the Tip is wrong, The cursor has to be placed BETWEEN the two letters to swap them over. The wording of the Tip is also wrong in that it shouls use “Cintrol + t”, that is lower case “t”. Nevertheless it has proved useful

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:17:59 +0000

It seems that CTRL + T basically drags whatever letter is to the left of the cursor to the right each time you press the key combination. If you take a letter near the beginning of a long word (I typed a long bit of gibberish with no spaces in TextEdit to test this), and keep hitting CTRL T, it will drag that letter through the word and then at the end start to do the reverse-letter thing… In fact, it will drag that letter through your sentence, paragraph, or whatever until it gets to the last typed character before a new paragraph.. At least in TextEdit. Odd!

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:47:07 +0000

That I believe is actually an Emacs keystroke, which work in all Cocoa apps. Others are ^A to move to the beginning of a line, ^E to the end, ^K to delete from the cursor to the end of the line.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:54:40 +0000

For me it works in Pages ’08

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:34:12 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work with Pages.

By: Anton

Anton — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:24:26 +0000

Aariq is correct as long as “teh” is not followed by any other character, e.g. if you have “teh and”, then it will only work, when the cursor is positioned between the “e” and “h”.

By: Aariq

Aariq — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:17:21 +0000

Hey Tanya,

If the cursor is in the middle of a word it does just as you said and switches the letters on either side. It also works at the end of the word too though. Try it out with your “teh” example. You can fix it either by putting the cursor at the end of the word, or between the e and the h and pressing ctl + T

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:42:54 +0000

The wording of this tip is in error. Control T will switch two characters, but they are the characters on both sides of the cursor. For instance if you have misspelled the word “the” as teh. Place your cursor between the e and the h and press Control T and they will switch.