I appreciate all the suggestions from listers on the problems with Excel.
I'm still struggling with the forms. Part of the problem, I think is that
the spreadsheets are just ridiculously complex. The thing that is the most
challenging is that I know there is text that I just can't get Jaws to read
no matter what cursor I use. With the Jaws cursor, Jaws will read parts of
several lines but won't move past a certain point. And then there is text
whichJaws will read when I do a say line, but when I try to read cell by
cell, I can't get a cursor to the last cell to check the numbers more
carefully, which I want to do because it's hard to keep all that info
straight in my mind.
Thanks, Shari
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sun Sounds of Arizona" <bill.pa...@riomail.maricopa.edu>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel problems with Jaws
Sometimes, you need to refresh the screen also. In complex spreadsheets,
particularly if you are editing a lot, the screen gets cluttered and you
need to hit Ins plus Esc which redraws the screen and often clears up
these
kinds of problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 7:39 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel problems with Jaws
A partial solution is to use goto for selecting text. Either f5 or
control-g gives you the go to dialog box. Then enter what you want to
select. For example if you want to select rows 1 through ten, you would
type f5, then 1:10. You can select contiguous cells, joining them with
colon as above, or non-contiguous cells, joining them with comma.
I would have thought that unloading and reloading JAWS would straighten
things out when you're trying to read, though. Excel is hard for JAWS,
being so densely formatted, but usually unload/reload unscrambles it.
Good luck!
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