Hello Eileen I think I understand what you're asking, so I will do my best to explain how I figure out my ranges. If you know you want to start with the first cell in your column then it is extremely easy because you don't have to figure it out basically. If I want to add a column of numbers, the first thing I do is draw a line, and the characteristics of that line is text. I put an apostrophe and then six or 7 ='s so that voiceover will save them. This separates the Numbers I want to add from the answer. Then I go to the menu with Vo mand right arrow to insert. Then I find the entry that says formula, and choose sum. Then I press the return key.
if you want to start at something other than the first cell in your column then you can locate the first cell, select to the end of your column with shift command down aero. A lot of times I just leave my finger on the shift key and go up arrow until I find the line that I talked about earlier. I do this if I have gone too far . Then I can use the menu to choose the option to add the numbers. You can use the same procedure for rows of numbers as well although I do not insert a line if I'm doing a roll of numbers. The answer is inserted in the cell to the right of where I start selecting. Hope all this helps. Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I'm in the same boat as Laura, but have applied some of the same principles > that I've used in Excel. What surprised me was that VO announced the header > for each column when in a particular cell. I was wondering how specify the > defined ranges when creating a simple formula. It was difficult to ascertain > the coordinates of the column and row like in Excel. I just opened the > formula dialog list and chose "sum" to get it inserted to tabulate the > column. Any suggestions regarding the above would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best, > Eileen > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 29, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Laura >> If you know how to use Excel, you should know that numbers will except Excel >> files. One of the things you should know right away so that you don't take >> forever to figure it out, is that when you press the = to start your >> formula, the first thing to do is to press the right arrow key. That get you >> in the correct cursor position to start the rest to your formula. >> >> Gigi >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Mar 29, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Laura Bratton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> Can anyone recommend a good resource for learning how to use numbers? >>> Thank you, >>> Laura >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > 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.
