Hi Brian This is part of the problem that I turned in. Here is what I do for now. It is annoying, but it works. When you get ready to input into a cell, just keep typing even though it's saying busy. However, I have found that it's best not to press the right arrow or the left arrow key, or the tab key until you hear numbers ready. If you have a large amount of data to put in, you might want to consider using TextEdit. Here's the way I arrange a file when I do this. When I want the first column, I type it and then press the tab key second column type it and press the tab key to go to the third column etc. when I put in all the columns I'm going to put in press the enter key and just keep doing it like that. Usually when I'm doing this, I don't have very many columns to put in. When I get it all done, I pasted into numbers. As a precaution, although I may not have to do this, I usually insert the number of rows I need before I paste into Numbers. I hope this helps
Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net On Jul 28, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I have been using numbers for awhile and just started using this > group. Does anyone else have a problem with numbers completely stop > allowing you to input text in to any cells? The document isn't locked, > and from time to time I will be working on a document and it just > stops allowing me to enter text and I have to quit numbers and restart > than it works fine, but it does happen enough to be annoying. > > Also, if anyone is using numbers on the Iphone, why does it not allow > you to scroll by using rows? I would think numbers would be one of the > most important apps to make use of the scrolling by rows. When I want > to read down a row on the Iphone I have to use Vertical navigation and > most of the time this skips a row. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks > > On Jul 27, 1:44 pm, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Harry, >> >> Try using VO-cmd-t to go to the Sheets Table. this command takes you >> between tables within the given document. >> >> I also haven't yet been able to have VO read the contents of a cell with a >> pop-up within. It allows me to select but does not read what has been >> selected when navigating through at a later time. >> >> I'll play some more to see if I can get anywhere. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2012-07-27, at 10:55 AM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hi Anne, >> >>> I've been going to the layout area and interacting with it, where I can see >>> the tables I've added there. When that didn't seem to work, however, I >>> went to the item chooser, to the sheets table, interacted, and brought the >>> mouse over so I could move about. That worked. Is there a quicker way to >>> get to the sheets table, however? >> >>> With regards to the menus, it's strange. I'm able to put items in the >>> menus, but it never tells me which is selected; it only says "menu cell," >>> or something like that. That was back in Lion when I tried it, so I didn't >>> know if anyone knew if accessibility had improved or not. >> >>> And it really does seem when things aren't working with Voiceover that the >>> solution is more often than not to move the mouse to a particular spot and >>> manipulate it that way. >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> Harry >> >>> On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:5tson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >> >>>> Hello Harry, >> >>>> To edit the contents of a cell, press the space bar. In the case of menus, >>>> this will bring up the menu. >> >>>> To rename the table, go to the Sheets table, interact with it and navigate >>>> to the one you want to rename. Bring the mouse and double click using the >>>> trackpad, then type the new name and press Return. >> >>>> Cheers, >> >>>> Anne >> >>>> On 27 Jul 2012, at 03:06, Harry Hogue wrote: >> >>>>> Is anyone familiar with Numbers and using the menus, checkboxes, etc. >>>>> features? I would like to create an attendance tracker to practice >>>>> skills in Numbers, but I just now looked at the template for an employee >>>>> schedule, and the menu options that are placed into the cells are all >>>>> dimmed, and although it gives times inside of those menus (times the >>>>> employee signed in/out, for example), VoiceOver does not read this >>>>> information. Should I be going about this type of thing another way? I >>>>> want to be able to create professional presentations using Numbers that >>>>> will give me the information I need about my budget, or my upcoming >>>>> internship schedule, and that kind of thing, but I want to have it be in >>>>> a way that is accessible when using VoiceOver, obviously. Right now I'm >>>>> trying to create the attendance tracker with information modeled off the >>>>> office.com website using Excel 2003. I want to learn how to do these >>>>> various things because Numbers/Excel has always been a weak area of mine. >>>>> How, for example, do you rename a table? >> >>>>> I would appreciate any thoughts from a confident Numbers user. >> >>>>> Best regards, >> >>>>> Harry >> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group >>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group >>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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