[nabs-l] To Michael regarding your Excel issue-possible solution

[James Hulme]

To Jason and All,

You must try to check your Excel spreadsheet settings every time after you
save the file.

Jimmy Hulme

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Arielle Silverman via nabs-l <
nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I sent your Excel file to my husband who is an Excel whiz, and I think
> he might have diagnosed the problem. See below. Basically, the sheet
> is password-protected, and whoever protected it set it so that
> protected cells can't be navigated with the keyboard even though they
> are visible on the screen. I'm sharing this with the whole list in
> case any of you have run into a similar problem or will in the future.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Gwinn <jasondgwinn at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 23:18:35 -0700
> Subject: Re: weird Excel file
> To: Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Arielle (my wife) passed the Excel file on to me, and I think I've spotted
> the problem.  Under the Review tab, Excel has a "protect worksheet" action,
> which allows you to password-protect the worksheet from (accidental or
> ill-informed) tampering.  You can hand-pick the few cells that stay
> unlocked, which in this case are the cells that need to be edited and
> updated, but everything else is protected unless you have the password,
> including the cells that have column and row labels.  I've used this
> myself, but one of the options I remember was whether or not to lock the
> cells not just from editing, but also from being selected.  For most of the
> cells, I cannot seem to select them even if I click right on them with the
> mouse, so I suspect the creator of this spreadsheet checked the "locked
> from selection" option, which means while the locked cells are still
> displayed on-screen for eyeballs to read, JAWS is not even allowed to look
> at them, because they cannot even be selected.  I think you need to check
> with your boss and ask for the selection-lock to be removed; it won't
> endanger the worksheet so long as editing is still locked, but it would
> allow JAWS to browse the whole sheet.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jason
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Michael D Ausbun via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> > Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 00:53:16 +0000
> > Subject: [nabs-l] Microsoft excell help please
> > To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <
> nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> > >
> > Cc: Michael D Ausbun <mausbun at unr.edu>
> >
> > Greetings, all:
> >         I am unfamiliar with excel, which is bad since my job uses it
> > heavily. Essentially, attached is what I would be working with. Anyone
> > have any tips, all are appreciated!
> > Respectfully,
> > Michael
> >
>
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