Pressing the equal's key will place focus in the formula bar. Pressing the Alt key then pressing Control + tab one time will put you on the tool bar. Good luck, Roy ----- Original Message ----- From: Patricia To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:53 AM Subject: JAWS and Excel: accessing the toolbar with the formulas Hi everyone: I am taking a computer course that is involving the use of Excel. I have never used Excel with JAWS much, except to enter numbers... but now I am having to use the formulas feature along with others that are visual and that I cannot begin to explain because of my utter confusion. the one question that I may be able to get answered here is how do I access the formula toolbar with JAWS? Also, when I create a chart the virtual viewer comes up on screen describing the coordinates and such, though it is not visually accessible. As I am getting sighted help with changing things within the chart, the virtual viewer at times seems to inhibit certain commands. I have checked that it wasn't checked in the configuration manager, yet it still comes up. and when I do escape it disappears but it also goes out of the chart. is there some way to stop the virtual viewer from coming up for the time being and then implement it at a later time? sorry for this convoluted sounding e-mail. Patricia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.10/459 - Release Date: 9/29/2006