I am using Excel2010 and JAWS 14 and this problem appears to have been addressed. I have the opposite problem. JAWS reads everything in the cell, even if it visually does not fit. So I frequently have to get sighted assistance at work to make my spreadsheets visually pleasing. I've looked through my Excel Verbosity settings and I cannot find anything that changes this. I think that it is a fix with how JAWS 14 interfaces with Excel2010. Sorry I cannot help you with Excel2007.
Annette -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Jim Pursley Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 10:38 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel 2007 & 2013: Reading Cells w/ Large Amounts of Data As I understand it, a line of text is accessed only in the cell at its beginning. I can offer no diorect solution to your issue but I have a work around. Can you make a pdf of the spreadsheet? If so, JAWS reads pdf documents line by line, left to right if you have JAWS set up to read by line. The pdf will read the entire line. I use pdf's of Excel spreadsheets to read quickly, the spreadsheets themselves if I want to get specific. It would be ideal if you could get the writers of the spreadsheets you read to adopt a convention to begin text at a predefined column, though I realize the idea is not workable if the writer wants to explain a specific number while in the same cell. I will be interested to see if anyone else has a better idea. On 8/9/2014 1:19 AM, Bill Tipton (ML) wrote: > Hello, > I use Excel 2007 and Excel 2013 with the latest version of JAWS 15. > How can I change some JAWS setting, use JAWS differently or change > Excel to read the entire contents of each cell as I arrow around in > the spreadsheet? Reason: Some cells have many lines of text, with > possible line feeds so the text looks appealing to sighted users. At this point I can't even tell what cells have extra text I am missing with JAWS. I was just in a conference call reviewing the spreadsheet and the sighted users could see more text then I could is how I found out about this issue. > > Thank you for any help you can provide. > Kind regards, > Bill > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
