Dear John, As you navigate round a sheet, does VO read the row and column number? Is there a way of checking headings of columns if you create them, or do you have to remember tehM? Can you add sheets to your template the way you do in Excel so that you have multiple sheets?
John, thank you for the list of steps in your message. I find it encouraging and I may now consider purchasing Iwork. With best wishes, Simon On 30 Sep 2009, at 08:54, John André Netland wrote: > > Hi Pete, > > I am using Numbers a lot with Snow Leopard, since it is even more > accessible here. Here is some basic VO tips for working with a blank > template in Numbers: > > •Launch Numbers so that you have the templates window in front of you, > or press command-shift-N to bring up the template chooser. > •find the list of template categories and press return on the "blank" > template. Numbers will open a fresh and new blank page. > •Navigate to the scroll area and interact with it. > •Navigate to the layout area and interact with it. > •Navigate to the "table 1" table and interact with it. > •Use your arrow keys to navigate around in the sheet, when you are on > a header cell or row/column cell where you would like to add new data > or overwrite existing data, simply write. •To edit or add data to an > existing content, VO-shift-space on the cell and navigate inside of > the cell with the arrow keys. > •When finished, press return and you are done. You are taken to the > next cell. > > There are different ways to interact with Numbers when you use VO, my > suggestion is to create a test to play around with, and get familiar > with it before working on real content. You will find both a Getting > started guide and a User Guide under the Help menu in Numbers. > > Hope this helps! > > Take care, > John André > > > > > > On 30. sep. 2009, at 03.29, peter apgar wrote: > >> >>> Good evening all, >> >> as i have been playing around with numbers lately. a few questions >> come to mind. >> >> 1. how does one open a blank worksheet with out all of the options >> like budget shopping lists and other formatting choices being >> selected? >> >> 2 after opening this new work sheet can one edit formulas similar to >> excel? >> 3 is there some sort of getting started guide for numbers? >> any information is greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Pete >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
