hi, I at one time was fully sighted, and formatting is still difficult for me even having seen most of the things that can be done!
understanding some things about the program helps, while other things are needed, but which of the choices are needed depends on the people your working with and for. a good way to get experience with what can! be done is to take a class at a local college or junior college in, well either excel, or most often they have a computer 101 class, which will have an introduction to the4 basic office tools, word, excel, PowerPoint and access. if you talk with the instructor, before the class starts and take it as a C/NC ( credit/no credit, meaning not for a grade but only for passing it and the points toward a college degree) and tell them what your working on, many will be willing to work with you as much as they can (good to ask the school your paying to show you this for some tutor, and disabled students center help as well!) if you have a friend at work, you can ask them about what they think you should do and I can probably tell you how to set it up the big thing is a two fold project, one find out what they want, and then find out how to create it you can contact me off list for more information, another hint, if you do not change anything, you have a total of about 15 letters per cell and 4 cells across the page before things start getting out of shape, that's 60 symbols in the whole row of 4 cells, of information, if you do not alter them with the formatting menu, anything more and we need to start changing things. regards, inthaneelf [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Blind-Computing [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mujtaba Merchant Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 9:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] excel printing Hello, This is kind of difficult to answer for any blind computer user. You might want to look at the page layout of your excel sheet. If it's portrait it means it's vertical in layout. If it's landscape, it's horizontal in layout. Printing a worksheet also depends on how many columns you have filled in the sheet, there is a difference on how many cells are actually visible and are actually there. The key combination Insert + F1 will give you the summary of the worksheet in focus. Also under the view menu, you can choose how the worksheet can be seen, printlayout etc. While printing you are given a dialog box that allows one to print the current page or selected page like 1 to 3 etc. Users are also given the option to print the selected area, for example if you have selected cells a1:f112 all the matter in those selected cells will be printed. Note: Each worksheet has gridlines visible to the user, it represents cells on the worksheet. But while printing these gridlines are not printed unless you have provided the cells with a thin grid line border. Giving your printout a table like look. The safest suggestion I can offer here is take a sighted friend with you and practice the art of printing again and again. I sincerely apologize for not being of any ground breaking help but this is the best I can do at this point in time. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-Computing [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of romance's prince Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] excel printing hello friends am totally blind, use excel in my work, and need to print reports and applications from excel, the problem am facing that sighted people always send me complains that sheet not formatted good and not fine in printing. please, need the steps which help me to format excellent sheet which will be printed on A4 paper. am using jaws, excel 2003. many thanks beero For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
