Try pressing the Insert and Control keys with your right hand and using your left for Alt and C, since that's a normal key combination used all the time to copy data to the clipboard.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Kimber Gardner > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 6:17 AM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Subject: Re: Excel Title Reading > > Hi Ed, > > I've done this successfully in excel 2003, but for whatever reason, > can't get it to work in excel 2010. > > I have an old post in which someone suggests pressing the key > combination jaws key plus alt plus control plus C to enable column > header reading. I don't know about you, but I don't seem to have the > necessary finger dexterity to accomplish this combination, so can't say > whether it works. > > As for the define names function in excel, I have no idea why it isn't > working as advertized. I would be interested to know if you get it to > work. > > Kimber > > On 4/21/14, 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my Yoga IdeaPad > > > > I. Edward Marquette > > > > Universal Phone: 408.692.5640 > > > > > > > > Mobile: 816.812.0088 > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > > scrubbed... > > URL: > > <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the- > jdh.com/attachments/ > > 20140421/9a1e7352/attachment.html> > > _______________________________________________ > > Jfw mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > > > -- > Kimberly > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
