Place the focus on the first column of the role that you want to have Jaws
read. Then press insert plus V. Type in the word title then you want to enable
read colum titles by pressing the space bar once below that you should have
title reading and press the spacebar once again then tap to ok. and press
enter now as you move from left to right below these jaws Will read the
titles.
Regards, Feliciano
Sent from the Super-iPhone
> On Apr 21, 2014, at 12:40 AM, "Ed Marquette" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Listers:
>
> I would like to have JAWS read column and row titles automatically
> as I arrow through a template spreadsheet. I went through Dan
> Clark's explanation from the Freedom Scientific training materials
> twice, and I still cannot make this work.
>
> First, let me make it clear that this spreadsheet gets bounced
> around a bit. So, using the "quick settings" approach doesn't
> work for my situation reliably. So, I'm trying to use Excel and
> JAWS to enter labels that will stick with the template spreadsheet
> wherever it resides on my computer/network.
>
> Second, I actually think Dan Clark may be skipping a step, but I
> have such limited familiarity with Excel that I'm not sure. In
> his training session, he opens up a training spreadsheet, goes to
> the row/column intersecting cell (top left) and then, in Excel
> 2010, hits alt plus m followed by m. When he does so, the region
> title edit field contains a number of words joined together by
> underline characters. Dan points out that you cannot use spaces
> in this thing, which I'll call a region title. Interestingly, Dan
> never mentions how Excel generates this title for the region. I
> just get the contents of the top left cell.
>
> He then proceeds to type in a new title. In that case, he enters
> TitleRegion1..F8. Now, I know he is able to skip the top left
> coordinate because his cursor was sitting in the top left
> coordinate when he undertook the naming process. Of course, after
> he hits ENTER, the row and column headings read just fine.
> Nothing like that happens for me.
>
> By the way, I'm using JAWS 15, Excel 2010, and Windows 7.
>
> Here is where I think the problem is.
>
> In my little spreadsheet, A3 is "ClientName"; B3 is
> "ClientNumber"; C3 is "MatterName"; D3 is "MatterNumber"; E3 is
> "Time"; and F3 is "Description".
>
> There is nothing in Column A below A3. That gets filled in with
> the client names.
>
> When I hit Alt plus m and then m, instead of getting some name
> separated with a bunch of underline characters, all I get is
> "ClientName," which is the column title for column A.
>
> I think the region may need to be named before I assign the
> "TitleRegion1" followed by the region's coordinates. I think Dan
> must have skipped a step, something that had already been done to
> his training spreadsheet.
>
> I guess the other problem might be that, unlike his sample
> spreadsheet, I do not have all the row titles filled in when I
> enter the name.
>
> I don't use Excel all that often, but this little spreadsheet
> could be helpful - if it worked.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
>
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>
> I. Edward Marquette
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