[Trainer-Talk] NVDA and Excel

[Nancy Coffman]

Hello Jim,

When you use the name function in the Excel formula bar, either JAWS or NVDA will read the title of the row, column or both. I would imagine that it works in Narrator also but I haven'! tried it.

Press altogether m for the formula bar.
Press n or arrow to name.
Press enter on new.
If you are on the intersection of the row and column of what you want read as row and title headers, you can type title.
If you just want the row title spoken, type RowTitle. I capitalize the first letter of each word and you don't want a space between them.

for just the title of the column, type ColumnTitle.

There is a training page in FS Reader about how to do this. I don't remember what versions of Excel it says it works in but it works in all of them. It goes into more detail about large pages with regions.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 10, 2018, at 11:57 AM, Jim Portillo via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone use or teach NVDA with Excel?  If so, how well does it work?  I
> generally teach it with JAWS and have taught it with WindowEyes, but this
> student has NVDA on his computer.
> 
> My current question is this.  How can I get NVDA to do the equivalent of
> JAWS verbosity?  I want NVDA to be able to read the column titles when he's
> filling them out.
> 
> I'll be spending some time brushing up on NVDA, but I needed the answer
> sooner than not.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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