As I understand it, a line of text is accessed only in the cell at its
beginning. I can offer no diorect solution to your issue but I have a
work around. Can you make a pdf of the spreadsheet? If so, JAWS reads
pdf documents line by line, left to right if you have JAWS set up to
read by line. The pdf will read the entire line. I use pdf's of Excel
spreadsheets to read quickly, the spreadsheets themselves if I want to
get specific.
It would be ideal if you could get the writers of the spreadsheets you
read to adopt a convention to begin text at a predefined column, though
I realize the idea is not workable if the writer wants to explain a
specific number while in the same cell.
I will be interested to see if anyone else has a better idea.
On 8/9/2014 1:19 AM, Bill Tipton (ML) wrote:
Hello,
I use Excel 2007 and Excel 2013 with the latest version of JAWS 15.
How can I change some JAWS setting, use JAWS differently or change Excel to
read the entire contents of each cell as I arrow around
in the spreadsheet? Reason: Some cells have many lines of text, with possible
line feeds so the text looks appealing to sighted
users. At this point I can't even tell what cells have extra text I am missing
with JAWS. I was just in a conference call reviewing
the spreadsheet and the sighted users could see more text then I could is how I
found out about this issue.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Kind regards,
Bill
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