Phil, Don’t know if you can purchase and install Excel by itself. I signed up for the annual Microsoft Office 365.
There are pros and cons with each, Numbers and Excel. With Numbers you can assign column and row headers that will speak as you navigate, but you cannot jump quickly from one populated cell to another one further away. It’s just tap, tap, tap, ad infinitum. Excel does not give you speaking column and row headers, but moving rapidly from top to bottom or from one populated cel to the next is simple with the CMD+arrow keys. Those are two very important differences in navigating a sheet, and I sure wish there was a JAWS equivalent capability to assign highlights so that Excel could be easier to use. Another Excel problem for me is trying to figure out how to get into the actual sheet. The sheet navigator does not seem intuitive, even after several forays into the app. Numbers also has its own quirky7 entry into a sheet, since it uses tables inside sheets and you have to learn to start thinking in those terms in order to get around. I’m beginning to lean more toward Excel, since at least most of the original hot keys and function keys all work the same as in a Windows environment, even if VO tends to get confused or lag behind in reporting what’s going on. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/A7C0A758-475C-4E79-808C-A399E011667E%40sbcglobal.net.
