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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 screen we use
ZoomText. ZoomText worked great with Word, and I think it will work great
with PowerPoint once we get there.
However, I have noticed that Excel and Outlook are designed to have
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 32X magnification. In order to see
more of the screen you need to push your arrow/pointer to the
top/bottom/left/right and the screen will move in that direction. This is
not scrolling, just moving the screen around.
My problem is that when we need to scroll right or down, we have no idea
where we are scrolling to since the column headers, row headers and name box
are all in the opposite corner. Scrolling is in the lower right and the
previously mentioned 3 items are on the left, top and upper left.
Also just working within the spreadsheet and not being able to see the
column and row headers is pretty frustrating. Try clicking on H42 without
using the headers or name box.
I know this is getting long so I'll get to the point, here are some ideas I
have to make this a little easier, but I can't find a way to do them:
1) Have the pointer display a screen tip of the cell reference for every
cell it is over without having to click on it. [This would be ideal]
2) Move/display the name box (or a copy of it) on another toolbar by
customizing one and putting it in the lower right corner near the scroll bars.
3) Display the column headers and row headers on the bottom and right of the
worksheet. [This would be ideal too.]
Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this, or know of any add-ins or
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 to the
letters at the top of the screen A, B, C, D, E ... So headers, headings,
labels all mean the same thing.
is not totally blind, but she needs help so to magnify the screen we use
ZoomText. ZoomText worked great with Word, and I think it will work great
with PowerPoint once we get there.
However, I have noticed that Excel and Outlook are designed to have
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 32X magnification. In order to see
more of the screen you need to push your arrow/pointer to the
top/bottom/left/right and the screen will move in that direction. This is
not scrolling, just moving the screen around.
My problem is that when we need to scroll right or down, we have no idea
where we are scrolling to since the column headers, row headers and name box
are all in the opposite corner. Scrolling is in the lower right and the
previously mentioned 3 items are on the left, top and upper left.
Also just working within the spreadsheet and not being able to see the
column and row headers is pretty frustrating. Try clicking on H42 without
using the headers or name box.
I know this is getting long so I'll get to the point, here are some ideas I
have to make this a little easier, but I can't find a way to do them:
1) Have the pointer display a screen tip of the cell reference for every
cell it is over without having to click on it. [This would be ideal]
2) Move/display the name box (or a copy of it) on another toolbar by
customizing one and putting it in the lower right corner near the scroll bars.
3) Display the column headers and row headers on the bottom and right of the
worksheet. [This would be ideal too.]
Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this, or know of any add-ins or
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 to the
letters at the top of the screen A, B, C, D, E ... So headers, headings,
labels all mean the same thing.