Hello Teresa,

You can include any VoiceOver settings in an activity and specify which 
applications will use it.

Cheers,

Anne


On 24 Mar 2014, at 04:12, Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> wrote:

> Could you set this up in a Voiceover activity for numbers only?
> 
> Teresa
> 
> On the other hand, there are different fingers.
> 
> On Mar 23, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Gigi,
>> 
>> If, in VoiceOver Utility, Category Navigation, you have the checkbox 
>> Automatically interact when using tab key unchecked, you can use the tab key 
>> to go to the next cell without it interacting. This is what I have, but many 
>> people prefer the automatic interaction. This could explain the difference.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Anne
>> 
>> 
>> On 23 Mar 2014, at 23:04, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Forgot to say that I have never used the VO keys to do the navigation at 
>>> all. I have also so far not had any focus issues doing that.
>>> Gigi
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 22, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Nicholas Parsons 
>>>> <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but glad to see you're getting into 
>>>> it and Gigi is helping.
>>>> The help documentation with Numbers is great. Their formulas and functions 
>>>> help, and the view functions by categories tables, should be all you 
>>>> really need. The Apple Support forums also contain lots of useful stuff.
>>>> To Gigi's basics, I'll just add these tips. When entering a formula or 
>>>> function, once you start typing, Apple will offer you suggestions. You can 
>>>> just use the left and right arrow keys to hear the different suggestions, 
>>>> and then press return to select the one you want. This is often useful 
>>>> when selecting ranges in other sheets, as it saves a lot of typing and 
>>>> colons. :)
>>>> Also, to adjust the cell's format data type you just navigate to the cell, 
>>>> press VO-j to jump to the format inspector, select the Cell radio button, 
>>>> navigate to the end of the inspector with VO-Shift-End, interact with the 
>>>> scroll area, and you have lots of great options. I find the popup menus 
>>>> and checkbox formats really useful. I never used to use these with Excell.
>>>> Also, one last tip. I tend to navigate cell by cell with VO keys plus 
>>>> arrow keys. Not sure if this is strictly necessary, but seems to help 
>>>> avoid any focus issues. When focus is on a cell, you can just type to 
>>>> enter data or a formula in the cell. To stop editing the cell, just stop 
>>>> interacting with it and move on.
>>>> Good luck, and before long I'll probably be learning from you!
>>>> P.S. 6x100 doesn't sound too huge. I was thinking of people who seem to 
>>>> have thousands of rows. I tend to use separate sheets pretty extensively, 
>>>> with one sheet for data entry and another sheet to display summaries and 
>>>> other info relating to the data. The data entries tables regularly get up 
>>>> to 60-70 rows, but don't usually get over one hundred. But I tend not to 
>>>> need to read back through those rows. I just jump straight  to the end to 
>>>> add a new row, and look at the summary sheets to get the result of the 
>>>> data. Plus the sort and filter options to sort and filter your data works 
>>>> pretty well and helps avoid the need to plough through rows and rows of 
>>>> data.
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