[Blindmath] Excel macros and VBA

[Richard Dinger]

Hi Philip,

I have used VBA in Office 2003 quite a bit and find it very accessible with 
jaws.

You must know or learn Visual Basic, however, and learn a bit about the VBA 
Integrated Development Environment (IDE).  Your first step is to set the 
security feature to allow VBA, this is done in the tools->macro->security 
menu.

Next you may want some manual or reference book.  Jamal has some resources 
on his site in plain text.  Also if you have BookShare, I have found the 
book "Writing Excel Macros" to be helpful if you mostly ignore the chapters 
on building graphical interfaces in VBA.  Graphical interfaces are possible, 
but tricky to do without sight.

If I can be of any further help, let me know.  I am a bit rusty on VBA as it 
has been about two years since I wrote anything very elaborate, but I can 
probably dredge up some help if you have specific questions.

Richard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip So" <pcs2001 at caa.columbia.edu>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:22 PM
Subject: [Blindmath] Excel macros and VBA


> Hi Lloyd and other list members,
> Thank you for your advice on Excell. Lloyd, you are absolutely right.
> Excel is essential.
> I have heard that screen readers do not work well with VBA and macros
> in Excel. Do you and anyone here on this list know if that's the case
> for both JAWS and Windows Eyes or just JAWS problem only? And if so,
> how can we get around that problem?
> Thanks very much.
> Best regards,
> Philip
> Email: pcs2001 at columbia.edu
>
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