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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: Jun 2, 2017 3:44PM

Thanks for the various suggestions. At first I could not find the Excel Name Manager functionality-- because I was on a Mac. The version of Excel I switched to on a PC had it.
Thanks, too, for the JAWS keystroke suggestions.

This is a wonderful list!

Thanks,
A

> On Jun 2, 2017, at 12:53 PM, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> You are correct david. Also Insert + CTRL + Alt + r will work for row headings.
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> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Andrews, David B (DEED)
> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 10:32 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Excel and Jaws
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> If I am remembering correctly -- and I may get this wrong, but with JAWS, put the cursor in the first cell of the header row and hit jaws+control+alt+C. That should monitor the cells.
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> Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Alan Zaitchik
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 10:12 AM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Excel and Jaws
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> I'm working on some excel spreadsheets that are basically just tables. They have column headings in the top row. Jaws reads cells announcing their cell ids like A10 or B5-- but I can't seem to get it to repeat the column headings the way it would for an html or PDF table. Is it incapable of doing so, or have I simply missed something in excel or in jaws? And is this reason enough to convert to PDF as our accessible version? Note: the intended use is READ ONLY for these files.
> Thanks,
> A
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