Hello Chris, It does appear quite difficult and shouldn't be so. You may wish to report it as a bug.
Having said which, if you type an equals sign in the cell where you want your formula you can pull down the insert menu and select function and one of those options. But I'm not sure why you need to select from the format bar? Yes, I agree that if there's a tool provided then we should have access to it like everyone else. I wondered, are they formulas that are too difficult to write out manually? You are not doing anything wrong. Hang in there and you'll find a way. HTH Gena On 5 Mar 2014, at 22:41, Christopher Edwards <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On my Macbook Pro I am still using iWork 2009 under Mountain Lion. > > However, I am using some of my One-to-One training to get familiar with > Mavericks and the new versions of Pages and Numbers. I am having a problem in > Numbers which I hope is caused by me doing something wrong. However, as I had > two trainers trying > to help me sort out this issue earlier today but without success I am not > sure. I hope I can explain the problem without being too long winded. Also, > as I can only repeat what the trainers told me was happening on the screen I > hope you will understand my explanation. > > The problem arises when I want to insert a formula into a cell. > > If I go to a cell and Interact with it I can then use VO+J to go to the > Format Bar but the options for inserting a formula are obviously not there > because I have not clicked into the cell and typed an equals sign. I can get > to the Toolbar and find > the Functions drop down menu but if I then choose one of the functions the > menu closes without anything happening. Again this must be because I have not > clicked inside > the cell and type the equals sign. This does seem logical. > > However, if I go to the cell and Interact and then press VO+Shift+Spacebar so > that I can type the equals sign I am told that the correct options then > appear on the Format Bar. However, pressing VO+J only produces a "dong" > sound. One of the Trainers said that the only > way he could get to the list of functions was to physically click the mouse. > However, although I tried all the tracking options I could think of I could > not find the point where I needed to click. > > If this really is a user error and you can explain what I should have done I > will be most happy and grateful. Otherwise it will be very disappointing that > Voiceover > cannot handle this aspect of Numbers. I find it hard to believe that such a > significant issue could have been missed during testing. > > Many thanks, > > Chris > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Gena Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
