Forgive for my blasphemy, but doing a find is far easier in Excell for windows. It's things like this which cause people either rightfully or wrongfully to say that the Mac is not a good productivity tool for blind folks.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Jun 21, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > I agree that the find command, which works in other applications with the VO > keys and f, should work in Numbers as well. Since Apple is busy making > changes to iWorks, I hope that's on our wish list for VoiceOver for this to > be fixed. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Ann, I will definitely try all this, and it good to hear that Find >> works, but seriously are you kidding me, that is a little ridiculous to have >> to do all of that for a simple find/search in a document. Again, glad to >> hear it works, but there has got to be a much easier way. >> On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hello Brian, >>> >>> It's perfectly possible to search for content with VO in Numbers. I just >>> tried it and it works in Mountain Lion. >>> >>> >>> To find specific content, >>> Turn cursor tracking off; >>> Press Command-f and enter search term; >>> Navigate down and interact with scroll area; >>> Interact with table: >>> Find desired result; >>> Bring mouse to VO cursor and do a mouse click (VO-Shift-Space); >>> Stop interacting with table and scroll area; >>> Navigate up to next scroll area; >>> Interact with scroll area, Layout area, and Layout item; >>> You will be on the selected cell; >>> Press VO-Shift-T to identify the cell. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> On 20 Jun 2013, at 21:45, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> You can get all the memory upgrades you want, but it is still not going to >>>> make numbers fully accessible. I have spoken to Apple countless times >>>> about Numbers and Accessibility. If you have a large spread sheet, there >>>> is no way to do a find or search to jump to a cell, as they broke that >>>> function in mountain lion. Apple is aware of this issue, and they told me >>>> numbers and pages have not been updated since before Voiceover came out, >>>> so it doesn't fully work with Voiceover. Kind of frustrating when you >>>> consider productivity. I used to use numbers all the time, and several >>>> times a day all of the sudden I couldn't enter any data into the spread >>>> sheet. I would have to quit numbers and restart. I have switched over to a >>>> database program as numbers got so frustrating to use. >>>> On Jun 19, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Chris, >>>>> >>>>> You can select a column or row in Numbers by going to the first cell in >>>>> that row or column and holding down the Shift key, use either the right >>>>> arrow key for a row, or the down arrow key for a column. >>>>> >>>>> As for your Busy problem, are you by any chance running Windows as a >>>>> virtual machine? If so, you'll need more memory. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Anne >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 19 Jun 2013, at 17:09, Christopher Edwards >>>>> <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have just started using Numbers on my Macbook Pro running Mountain >>>>>> Lion and, so far, have two questions. >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. How can I select a whole row or column? A trainer at the Apple Store >>>>>> says you have to click on the row number or column letter. I cannot find >>>>>> a keyboard shortcut to do this nor can I find a way of navigating to >>>>>> these points with the touch pad or keyboard. I am sure there must be a >>>>>> solution so please can someone tell me what it is? >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. Even though my spreadsheets have been very small so far I keep >>>>>> getting "busy" messages and often have to force quit the program and on >>>>>> one occasion even this solution did not work. I seem to remember someone >>>>>> saying that increasing RAM makes a big difference. 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