Hello Carol, I'm guessing you needed to interact with the table. Numbers has layers. It maybe that the file opened at the lowest level. On top of the outline and toolbars is the layer with your table. If you stepped up to that level. You would have been navigating around the cells of the table.
I'm sorry, there's no shortcut to learning a new screen reader. Each screen reader can only guess what defaults suit most people. As our screen readers are the most important method of access we all want to dive in with the apps. But we gain far more by exploring our screen reader. Because when we open a new app. We are armed with different screen reader moves to gain an understanding of the controls and layout of the app. This concept of interacting with areas. Or as I see it. Stepping up to the next level. Is quite Aileen to Windows users in the beginning. But soon you will accommodate these differences. Or at least, I'm getting there myself. Good luck. Gena Please Note: Please use email address below for all future correspondence: [email protected] Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! On 26 Jul 2013, at 18:13, Carol Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Gina. > > My main reason for wanting to use numbers is to deal with one spreadsheet > which I have to issue each week. This requires that I change a few columns > and occasionally have to change the header at the top of the sheet. Apart > from this, I don't any longer need to use spreadsheets in my life! > > I therefore took an XL spreadsheet and loaded it directly into numbers hoping > that I can read it and make a few alterations. Well, with my little knowledge > of the Mac so far, I was not really able to get to read it at all. I found > all the settings, and went in and out and round and round about them, but I > didn't do much else! Once I can read the spreadsheet itself, presumably then > I may stand more chance of getting to edit it. > > I guess I'll have to start at the beginning, but I don't want a long learning > curve just for this, so I'm hoping that I can bypass a good deal of what one > would have to learn if I needed to create spreadsheets from scratch. > > Perhaps this gives you a better idea where I'm coming from. I basically > needed to move some of the computer equipment in my home and in order to do > this, I do need another way to produce my spreadsheets! > > Carol P > Sent from my iPhone using BrailleTouch > > On 26 Jul 2013, at 06:01 PM, Georgina Joyce <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Carol & Andy, >> >> Numbers is a very powerful application. It depends upon what you wish to do >> with it. I guess it would be useful if you stated what you would like to >> achieve with it. I've just been using my 1 to 1 sessions on numbers. Did >> either of you buy 1 to 1 training with your new Mac's? >> >> If you open a new document. Numbers puts focus into the 1 table provided. >> You can use the arrow keys to navigate and VO announces column and row >> coordinates. In this respect I personally find it too verbose but knowing >> the VO utility. Such verbosity can be controlled. Like pages, it has a very >> powerful pallet of controls called an inspector. Achieved by option plus >> command plus (i). This is a toggle i.e. hiding it and giving it focus. It >> reminds me of iTunes. When you bring the inspector to the front. You have a >> series of radio buttons. So if you wish to manipulate the rows or columns >> simply select the table radio button. Then VO right arrow and explore the >> controls. When you have made your changes just press option + cmd + i and >> you are returned to your document. >> >> As I have an understanding of XL, other than the inspector. I don't feel >> numbers is too different. A spread sheet is a spread sheet. >> >> HTH >> >> Gena >> >> Please Note: >> Please use email address below for all future correspondence: >> >> [email protected] >> >> Georgina Joyce >> Applied Psychologist >> Training and Coaching. >> Because individuals of groups matter! >> >> >> On 26 Jul 2013, at 15:41, Carol <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I need to move on to do some tasks in life with the Mac, besides email, and >>> have a MS Windows spread sheet which I need to work on regularly. I have >>> Numbers but don't really know where to start to accomplish the reading of >>> that spread sheet and making some changes to entries. >>> >>> It's not a large, complicated spread sheet so I am hopeful Numbers will >>> handle it. 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