Sue. Hadley School for the Blind offers a free distance learning course in Excel if you are interested. Christina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:03 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Now Office Suite 2006 and MS Excel files was books that are a series or a part thereof. Hi Melissa, Thanks, I will have a look at MS Office and see what I find. I would certainly love to be able to handle spreadsheets, not only read them, but use them. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:37 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Now Office Suite 2006 and MS Excel files was books that are a series or a part thereof. > Sue, > I just took a quick look at this program on amazon.com. According to the > little information there, you should have a program included in this > office suite that works with Excel files, as they mentioned working with > spreadsheets, and working with MS Office files. That said, not being > familiar with the program, I 'm probably not going to be a lot of help. On > figuring out how to use it. I would start by finding the spreadsheet > program in your office suite, and see if their help files can help you > with working with MS Excel files. > > > Melissa Smith > > On 1/11/2011 7:56 PM, Sue Stevens wrote: >> Yes, I have Office Suite 2006y. >> >> Sue S. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:59 PM >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books that are a series or a part thereof. >> >> >>> Sue, >>> If you have a free file opener, this would be true that you could only >>> read them and not be able to write in them or anything. The commands >>> would be different, most likely, in the file opener than they would be >>> in Excel. Do you have any kind of office suite on you computer? >>> >>> Melissa Smith >>> >>> On 1/11/2011 1:46 PM, Sue Stevens wrote: >>>> >>>> I think my problem is that I do not actually have excel on my computer. >>>> I downloaded a program called free file opener that allows me to open >>>> these files, but since I do not have excel, I can only read them, and >>>> do not have the commands and help files one would have with Excel. >>>> >>>> Sue S. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:32 PM >>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books that are a series or a part >>>> thereof. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Indeed, Jaws does report which spreadsheet you are on! >>>>> >>>>> Susan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa >>>>> Smith >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:27 PM >>>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books that are a series or a part >>>>> thereof. >>>>> >>>>> Sue, >>>>> I'm assuming that you are referring to the sample spreadsheet that >>>>> Scott >>>>> sent earlier. There is is more than one spreadsheet in this file. When >>>>> you >>>>> open it, you're cursor is most likely located in the 3rd worksheet, at >>>>> least >>>>> mine was. You will need to use control page up and control page down >>>>> to move >>>>> from sheet to sheet. In this case, you will want to use the control >>>>> page up >>>>> to get to sheets 1 and 2, which is where the information is located. >>>>> When I open the file WindowEyes reports to me which sheet I'm on, I >>>>> would >>>>> assume that Jaws has a similar feature, but you would need to confirm >>>>> that >>>>> with a Jaws user. >>>>> >>>>> Melissa Smith >>>>> >>>>> On 1/11/2011 10:11 AM, Susan wrote: >>>>>> I didn't find anything which JAWS 12 recognized in this spreadsheet. >>>>>> Where does the info start? Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> Susan >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>>>>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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