Hi Emilio, I use Numbers now on a daily basis and it has completely replaced Excel for all my spreadsheet work. In a lot of ways it is easier and more accessible than excel with JAWS. The big thing that you’ll have to get used to coming from Excel is the way numbers handles data. In excel, a sheet is one large grid of cells that you can organize your data on in the form of lists, tables, etc. Then you navigate around the sheet to move to your various data lists and tables.
In numbers, you don’t have one big open sheet with a vast array of cells. Instead you place data objects on a “canvas” and store your data in those objects. These objects are usually in the form of tables which act much like a list in excel. I hope that makes sense. you expand and contract the size of the tables as needed to accommodate new data rows and columns. You can have up to five header rows, header columns and footer rows along with unlimited data rows and columns in a table, and numbers does a good job of automatically keeping everything organized. Also, Working with formulas is a pleasure once you get the hang of the formula editor. I don’t know of any tutorials, but a good thorough reading of the help system, and referring to it often along with your existing knowledge of spreadsheeting will get you up and running. Spend some time just experimenting with setting up tables and doing simple formula work for a while before trying to convert your excel stuff over to numbers. Like I said, I was a die-hard Excel user but I actually like numbers better now. It handles everything I can throw at it and now all my Excel spreadsheets are converted over to numbers tables. (of course, I had to tweet things quite a bit to make that happen) For $20 I don’t think you can go wrong. Just be prepared to spend some time on the learning curve. Numbers is at least, if not more accessible with VO than is Excel with Jaws. It just has some different data storage concepts that you need to understand. Good Luck > On Jan 30, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Emilio Hernandez <emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Does anyone know of a good voiceover tutorial that could usher me along using > Numbers? > I want to give this program a fair shake if it will be comparable to using > Excel. > > Thanks for any help anyone can provide. > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
