Hi Pele, Thanks. Yes - please could I have more info on the macro for writing the colour? Catherine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pele West" <pele.west@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 10:47 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Excel questions > Hi Catherine > > 1. You can find out the name of the current Excel worksheet by pressing > <Control Pageup> or <Control Pagedown> and cycling through the sheets. > JAWS will > speak them. However, if you want to see the name, press <Alt O (format), > H (Sheet) R (Rename)>. If you need to know the names for use by an Excel > macro, > let me know. > > 2. I do not know if there is an easy way of telling JAWS to speak a row > highlighted in a particular colour. I expect it could be done with a > script, but I am not an > expert at this. I would be interested to know, though. I got round the > problem by writing a macro which checked the number value in a particular > column and > wrote the name of the colour in another column on the same row. I could > then look for all the red or green or whatever coloured rows I wanted. > > Let me know if you would like any more information on this. > > Pele West > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq