John, thank You! this was exactly what i needed. i am finding that i need to learn things on the mac after a taxing day at the office. when needing to be able to make things work with out patients is not a good combination. thanks for saving this cool MBP of mine.
Pete On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:54 AM, John André Netland wrote: > > Hi Pete, > > I am using Numbers a lot with Snow Leopard, since it is even more > accessible here. Here is some basic VO tips for working with a blank > template in Numbers: > > •Launch Numbers so that you have the templates window in front of you, > or press command-shift-N to bring up the template chooser. > •find the list of template categories and press return on the "blank" > template. Numbers will open a fresh and new blank page. > •Navigate to the scroll area and interact with it. > •Navigate to the layout area and interact with it. > •Navigate to the "table 1" table and interact with it. > •Use your arrow keys to navigate around in the sheet, when you are on > a header cell or row/column cell where you would like to add new data > or overwrite existing data, simply write. •To edit or add data to an > existing content, VO-shift-space on the cell and navigate inside of > the cell with the arrow keys. > •When finished, press return and you are done. You are taken to the > next cell. > > There are different ways to interact with Numbers when you use VO, my > suggestion is to create a test to play around with, and get familiar > with it before working on real content. You will find both a Getting > started guide and a User Guide under the Help menu in Numbers. > > Hope this helps! > > Take care, > John André > > > > > > On 30. sep. 2009, at 03.29, peter apgar wrote: > >> >>> Good evening all, >> >> as i have been playing around with numbers lately. a few questions >> come to mind. >> >> 1. how does one open a blank worksheet with out all of the options >> like budget shopping lists and other formatting choices being >> selected? >> >> 2 after opening this new work sheet can one edit formulas similar to >> excel? >> 3 is there some sort of getting started guide for numbers? >> any information is greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Pete >> >>> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
