Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-30 Thread Dave Maynard
Hi Brian; I know what you posted is from a training module. The problem is that does not work for many excel 2010 users. What I posted is from a post on this list regarding an excel check book spreadsheet that Eric replied to in March 2014. It is the only way I have been able to get the result

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-30 Thread East, Robin
Folks, for office Excel 2010 the easiest way for announcement of column titles is: Tap Alt + M for (Formula Tab) then Tap M again for define name... then Tap enter then Type in title with a capital T or any other word you want but first letter must be a capital Hit enter then save the

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-30 Thread Brian Lee
Hello David, Actually, only a portion of my message was from a training module and in quotation marks. The initial message I sent Ed contained the same steps I follow in developing many spreadsheets for myself and clients using Excel 2010 and Excel 2013. What Ed was doing is typing the actual

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-29 Thread Patti
Hi Ed, This is how I do it, and I hope it helps you? Patti Excel Row and Column Title Reading 1, be in the cell roll you want it to be read, like A1 2, Press insert V 3, press the letter T 4, arrow down to title reading 5, arrow one time to, Define Name Column and Row Titles off 6, press the

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-29 Thread Dave Maynard
Hi Ed; I have been watching this thread. You have been given a host of ideas. Over the last year I have tried all of them to no avail. If you have had success, God bless you. Just delete this message. If you are still trying to solve the problem, here is what Eric D. from FS posted and it

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-29 Thread Brian Lee
Ed asked specifically for column headers to be announced in Excel 2010. There are additional directions for creating row header reading or column and row header reading but the answer I wrote for column header reading is in keeping with the latest preference from Erick. The newest copy of Excel

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-29 Thread Jim Pursley
David..your method works. Bit of verbosity if I'm still announcing cell coordinates but if I don't adjust then I can always turn off the coordinates for a spreadsheet. On 5/29/2014 2:44 PM, Dave Maynard wrote: Hi Ed; I have been watching this thread. You have been given a host of ideas.

[JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-28 Thread Pinky
Hi Jaws listers, I have Win 7 using Office 2010. When I am using Excel and I am down the column how can I get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in. for example say I have the name of the column called Date and I am down the column how do I get Jaws to announce that I am in the

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-28 Thread Pinky
Tom, Yes it does announce when I go to that cell. But when I am way down the page going across it would be nice to know what name is in the column as I don't always remember what column I have certain names in. I know someone on another list stated there was a way to have jaws announce what the

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-28 Thread East, Robin
Hi, See below: I have information for 2007 and 2010 MS OFFICE) however have a meeting will post in say a few hours. Robin http://easi.cc/archive/col-tables/week3/03_CreatingAccessibleRangesInMicrosoftExcel.htm Creating Titles that Read Automatically Using Excel's Built-In Naming Function

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-28 Thread Bissett, Tom
On the jaws training you can find a tutorial on setting up column and row titles that will automatically read. http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/training/training-downloads.asp Tom Bisset -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-28 Thread Dwight Johnson
I have tried using those commands and they don't work for me. I just press control g and put in e1 if I am in e47, for example. Then I press control g again then press enter and it goes back to e47. Dwight -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to get Jaws to announce the name of the column I am in.

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Lee
Hello Ed, You can set titles for columns, rows or both And have JAWS read them. If you only want column titles read as you use left and right arrow keys across a row do the following: 1. Find out what row number and column letter (cell address) will be used for the first column