Forgot to say that I have never used the VO keys to do the navigation at all. I have also so far not had any focus issues doing that. Gigi
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 22, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Nicholas Parsons > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but glad to see you're getting into it > and Gigi is helping. > The help documentation with Numbers is great. Their formulas and functions > help, and the view functions by categories tables, should be all you really > need. The Apple Support forums also contain lots of useful stuff. > To Gigi's basics, I'll just add these tips. When entering a formula or > function, once you start typing, Apple will offer you suggestions. You can > just use the left and right arrow keys to hear the different suggestions, and > then press return to select the one you want. This is often useful when > selecting ranges in other sheets, as it saves a lot of typing and colons. :) > Also, to adjust the cell's format data type you just navigate to the cell, > press VO-j to jump to the format inspector, select the Cell radio button, > navigate to the end of the inspector with VO-Shift-End, interact with the > scroll area, and you have lots of great options. I find the popup menus and > checkbox formats really useful. I never used to use these with Excell. > Also, one last tip. I tend to navigate cell by cell with VO keys plus arrow > keys. Not sure if this is strictly necessary, but seems to help avoid any > focus issues. When focus is on a cell, you can just type to enter data or a > formula in the cell. To stop editing the cell, just stop interacting with it > and move on. > Good luck, and before long I'll probably be learning from you! > P.S. 6x100 doesn't sound too huge. I was thinking of people who seem to have > thousands of rows. I tend to use separate sheets pretty extensively, with one > sheet for data entry and another sheet to display summaries and other info > relating to the data. The data entries tables regularly get up to 60-70 rows, > but don't usually get over one hundred. But I tend not to need to read back > through those rows. I just jump straight to the end to add a new row, and > look at the summary sheets to get the result of the data. Plus the sort and > filter options to sort and filter your data works pretty well and helps avoid > the need to plough through rows and rows of data. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
