A partial solution is to use goto for selecting text. Either f5 or
control-g gives you the go to dialog box. Then enter what you want
to select. For example if you want to select rows 1 through ten, you
would type f5, then 1:10. You can select contiguous cells, joining
them with colon as above, or non-contiguous cells, joining them with comma.
I would have thought that unloading and reloading JAWS would
straighten things out when you're trying to read, though. Excel is
hard for JAWS, being so densely formatted, but usually unload/reload
unscrambles it.
Good luck!
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