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Daniel Naas
I am teaching someone how to use Office 2003 who is visually impaired.
She is not totally blind, but she needs help so to magnify the scree
we use ZoomText. ZoomText worked great with Word, and I think it wil
work great with PowerPoint once we get there.
However, I have noticed that Excel and Outlook are designed to hav
information all over the screen. For those of you who don't know
ZoomText creates a virtual screen that is larger than your monitor
thus magnifying the section you want to see from 1.25X to 32
magnification. In order to see more of the screen you need to pus
your arrow/pointer to the top/bottom/left/right and the screen wil
move in that direction. This is not scrolling, just moving the scree
around.
My problem is that when we need to scroll right or down, we have n
idea where we are scrolling to since the column headers, row header
and name box are all in the opposite corner. Scrolling is in the lowe
right and the previously mentioned 3 items are on the left, top an
upper left.
Also just working within the spreadsheet and not being able to see th
column and row headers is pretty frustrating. Try clicking on H4
without using the headers or name box.
I know this is getting long so I'll get to the point, here are som
ideas I have to make this a little easier, but I can't find a way to d
them:
1) Have the pointer display a screen tip of the cell reference fo
every cell it is over without having to click on it. [This would b
ideal]
2) Move/display the name box (or a copy of it) on another toolbar b
customizing one and putting it in the lower right corner near th
scroll bars.
3) Display the column headers and row headers on the bottom and righ
of the worksheet. [This would be ideal too.]
Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this, or know of any add-ins o
other programs that would allow me to do this?
Thanks for all of your help.
P.S. People use different terms. By column headings I am referring t
the letters at the top of the screen A, B, C, D, E ... So headers
headings, labels all mean the same thing.
P.P.S. I am posting this on other forums too to see what ideas peopl
come up with
She is not totally blind, but she needs help so to magnify the scree
we use ZoomText. ZoomText worked great with Word, and I think it wil
work great with PowerPoint once we get there.
However, I have noticed that Excel and Outlook are designed to hav
information all over the screen. For those of you who don't know
ZoomText creates a virtual screen that is larger than your monitor
thus magnifying the section you want to see from 1.25X to 32
magnification. In order to see more of the screen you need to pus
your arrow/pointer to the top/bottom/left/right and the screen wil
move in that direction. This is not scrolling, just moving the scree
around.
My problem is that when we need to scroll right or down, we have n
idea where we are scrolling to since the column headers, row header
and name box are all in the opposite corner. Scrolling is in the lowe
right and the previously mentioned 3 items are on the left, top an
upper left.
Also just working within the spreadsheet and not being able to see th
column and row headers is pretty frustrating. Try clicking on H4
without using the headers or name box.
I know this is getting long so I'll get to the point, here are som
ideas I have to make this a little easier, but I can't find a way to d
them:
1) Have the pointer display a screen tip of the cell reference fo
every cell it is over without having to click on it. [This would b
ideal]
2) Move/display the name box (or a copy of it) on another toolbar b
customizing one and putting it in the lower right corner near th
scroll bars.
3) Display the column headers and row headers on the bottom and righ
of the worksheet. [This would be ideal too.]
Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this, or know of any add-ins o
other programs that would allow me to do this?
Thanks for all of your help.
P.S. People use different terms. By column headings I am referring t
the letters at the top of the screen A, B, C, D, E ... So headers
headings, labels all mean the same thing.
P.P.S. I am posting this on other forums too to see what ideas peopl
come up with