Thanks Ann, I will definitely try all this, and it good to hear that Find works, but seriously are you kidding me, that is a little ridiculous to have to do all of that for a simple find/search in a document. Again, glad to hear it works, but there has got to be a much easier way. On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello Brian, > > It's perfectly possible to search for content with VO in Numbers. I just > tried it and it works in Mountain Lion. > > > To find specific content, > Turn cursor tracking off; > Press Command-f and enter search term; > Navigate down and interact with scroll area; > Interact with table: > Find desired result; > Bring mouse to VO cursor and do a mouse click (VO-Shift-Space); > Stop interacting with table and scroll area; > Navigate up to next scroll area; > Interact with scroll area, Layout area, and Layout item; > You will be on the selected cell; > Press VO-Shift-T to identify the cell. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > On 20 Jun 2013, at 21:45, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You can get all the memory upgrades you want, but it is still not going to >> make numbers fully accessible. I have spoken to Apple countless times about >> Numbers and Accessibility. If you have a large spread sheet, there is no way >> to do a find or search to jump to a cell, as they broke that function in >> mountain lion. Apple is aware of this issue, and they told me numbers and >> pages have not been updated since before Voiceover came out, so it doesn't >> fully work with Voiceover. Kind of frustrating when you consider >> productivity. I used to use numbers all the time, and several times a day >> all of the sudden I couldn't enter any data into the spread sheet. I would >> have to quit numbers and restart. I have switched over to a database program >> as numbers got so frustrating to use. >> On Jun 19, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hello Chris, >>> >>> You can select a column or row in Numbers by going to the first cell in >>> that row or column and holding down the Shift key, use either the right >>> arrow key for a row, or the down arrow key for a column. >>> >>> As for your Busy problem, are you by any chance running Windows as a >>> virtual machine? If so, you'll need more memory. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 19 Jun 2013, at 17:09, Christopher Edwards <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have just started using Numbers on my Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion >>>> and, so far, have two questions. >>>> >>>> 1. How can I select a whole row or column? A trainer at the Apple Store >>>> says you have to click on the row number or column letter. I cannot find a >>>> keyboard shortcut to do this nor can I find a way of navigating to these >>>> points with the touch pad or keyboard. I am sure there must be a solution >>>> so please can someone tell me what it is? >>>> >>>> 2. Even though my spreadsheets have been very small so far I keep getting >>>> "busy" messages and often have to force quit the program and on one >>>> occasion even this solution did not work. I seem to remember someone >>>> saying that increasing RAM makes a big difference. I have 4GB so would it >>>> be worth doubling this, or maybe adding even more RAM than that? >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> >>>> Chris Edwards >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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