Re: Extra info in Excel

  • From: "Jim Talley" <nrg.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:22:21 -0600

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
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