Hi, I have had intermittent problems like this with Excel back in Windows7 and Excell2010, as well as Excel2016 on both a Windows 7 and 10 machine. This particular problem has occurred less frequent that the other problems, such as JAWS reading nothing, or only part of the cell contents. Yes, all of these problems make it almost impossible to edit a cell. There are a couple of things I do to work around these problems.
Make sure the Excel Window is maximized. Even if the maximize choice on the menu is greyed out, I press enter when I am on it just for good measure. Sometimes this actually makes a difference. Use F2 to get into the cell contents. Move to the start of the cell contents with control+home. Now right arrow until you get to the information you want to change. Use F2 to open the cell with the original text that you want to have an edited version of in a different cell. Select All. JAWS may very well not tell you that the text is selected. Copy with Control+C. Use Escape to get out of the cell. Move to the new cell and open it with F2. Use Control+V to paste the information into the cell, and now edit it. As a last resort when nothing seems to be fixing the problem, Use F2 to open the cell, select the entire contents of that cell, copy it and then paste it into Notepad. Make the fix, copy it and then paste it in the new cell that is open with F2. If you use this option, make sure you use Notepad and not Word. The text format in Word will be brought over with the text when you paste it back into the cell. I've noticed that the problem gets worse as the day progresses. Relaunching Excel usually does not fix it. A system reboot sometimes is a fix, but there is no guarantee. HTH, Annette -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of George Martinez Sr Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:30 PM To: JAWS USERS <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Excel cells now reading differently Hello all, I am using JAWS 2018 and Office 365 in Windows 10 1803. I have just noticed the last week or 2 a very annoying event in Excel. I have a Description in a cell as follows, "June 27 payroll draw" When I go to that cell and press F2 and begin to arrow right each time I arrow right JAWS reads me "June 27 payroll draw" instead of "J" then "U" etc. This is more than annoying because if I did not have a little residual sight I would have no way of knowing where the cursor is to delete the 7 and replace with 8. Is anyone else finding this in Excel recently? I feel like the little white ball bouncing between Microsoft and VFO's paddles of "improvement." George A. Martinez, Accountant 12231 N. 50th Ave. Glendale, AZ 85304 O-602.368.8854 F-1-888.822.0282 C-602.368.5424 "He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all." Eleanor Roosevelt For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/