It's not like that the entire worksheet could be lank with no information in any of the cells. Still when I arrow between the empty cells Jaws will speak the random numbers and letters, thanks for your input so far. I'm sure this mystery will be solved. glimmering light ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna K Byrne" <annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:01 AM Subject: Re: Extra info in Excel > Jim, > > Focus on the largest cell in the column, then go to format cells with > control-1, arrow down to width, to autofit selection and press enter. JAWS > does that speaking weirdness, as I understand it, when the data is too > large for the visible cell. With PC cursor on, JFW speaks the whole cell > whether it's visible or not, and the JAWS cursor is supposed to speak only > what is visible. The JAWS cursor speaks what is visible if there is data > in the following cell, but it speaks the whole cell, visible or not, if the > following cell is blank. Sometimes if the previous cell is huuuuuuuge, it > seems to carry over to the one next it. The data doesn't, just the JFW > reading of it. > > If the cells you are working with are large, as in managing a project, you > can wrap the data within the cell. The command to do that is under > format/alignment, I think. > > > At 09:38 AM 8/8/2004, you wrote: > >Hi Listers, when I am navigating in a Excel worksheet by arrowing up and > >down or right and left JFW speaks a letter, number or comma these are not > >in the cells Jaws just likes to throw them in hopefully some of you can > >help me with this vexing annoyance. I am using Jaws 5.0 with Win XP pro > >and Excel 2002. Thanks upfront for your assistance . > >glimmering light > >-- > >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > >Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > > >If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > >the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather > >contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx