Hi there I use numbers all the time, and I have never had trouble putting in my formulas. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand why you are having to go through all the things used are going through here. All I have to do is type in the =, and no interaction is necessary or anything
I just did a test with my version of numbers which is the latest version in Mavericks. I have not tested doing it by Rose, but I had absolutely no problem at all inserting a formula in a column. Here is how I did it. I made a column of numbers, in this case I copied a previous column so that I could test it and see if it came out the same. I put a row of equals silence to separate the total from the number in the columns. All I did was to be in the menu with veal him, I went to the insert menu and went down to function and press the right arrow and the first one was some and then press the enter key it put the some right below where I put the separation line. I did make a discovery, however. If I selected items in the column, the function item was dim. But, when I didn't select the column, it added up the whole column. I need to try it with a row and see what happens with that. I have never had a need to add a row of figures instead of a column of figures. I suspect that there may be a way to tell numbers to do that instead. Perhaps selecting it would work maybe. I'll see. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 5, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Christopher Edwards <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > On my Macbook Pro I am still using iWork 2009 under Mountain Lion. > > However, I am using some of my One-to-One training to get familiar with > Mavericks and the new versions of Pages and Numbers. I am having a problem in > Numbers which I hope is caused by me doing something wrong. However, as I had > two trainers trying > to help me sort out this issue earlier today but without success I am not > sure. I hope I can explain the problem without being too long winded. Also, > as I can only repeat what the trainers told me was happening on the screen I > hope you will understand my explanation. > > The problem arises when I want to insert a formula into a cell. > > If I go to a cell and Interact with it I can then use VO+J to go to the > Format Bar but the options for inserting a formula are obviously not there > because I have not clicked into the cell and typed an equals sign. I can get > to the Toolbar and find > the Functions drop down menu but if I then choose one of the functions the > menu closes without anything happening. Again this must be because I have not > clicked inside > the cell and type the equals sign. This does seem logical. > > However, if I go to the cell and Interact and then press VO+Shift+Spacebar so > that I can type the equals sign I am told that the correct options then > appear on the Format Bar. However, pressing VO+J only produces a “dong” > sound. One of the Trainers said that the only > way he could get to the list of functions was to physically click the mouse. > However, although I tried all the tracking options I could think of I could > not find the point where I needed to click. > > If this really is a user error and you can explain what I should have done I > will be most happy and grateful. Otherwise it will be very disappointing that > Voiceover > cannot handle this aspect of Numbers. I find it hard to believe that such a > significant issue could have been missed during testing. > > Many thanks, > > Chris > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
