Have you tried the read all visible cells with data command
(control-shift-d) or read all cells in the row (control-shift-r for
older JAWS and insert-shift-r for new ones) and read all cells in
the column (control-shift-c or insert-shift-c) do anything
good??? Using control-shift-d, though, only reads the cells
visible on the screen, not all the cells. Insert-shift-r reads all
cells in the row whether they are on the screen or not, and likewise
insert-shift-c reads everything in a column whether it is on screen or not.
At 06:36 PM 4/6/2010, you wrote:
I appreciate all the suggestions from listers on the problems with
Excel. I'm still struggling with the forms. Part of the problem, I
think is that the spreadsheets are just ridiculously complex. The
thing that is the most challenging is that I know there is text that
I just can't get Jaws to read no matter what cursor I use. With the
Jaws cursor, Jaws will read parts of several lines but won't move
past a certain point. And then there is text whichJaws will read
when I do a say line, but when I try to read cell by cell, I can't
get a cursor to the last cell to check the numbers more carefully,
which I want to do because it's hard to keep all that info straight in my mind.
Thanks, Shari
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sun Sounds of Arizona"
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel problems with Jaws
Sometimes, you need to refresh the screen also. In complex spreadsheets,
particularly if you are editing a lot, the screen gets cluttered and you
need to hit Ins plus Esc which redraws the screen and often clears up these
kinds of problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 7:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel problems with Jaws
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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