I don't use Excel, but why NVDA plus up arrow?  That command moves you to the higher level object.  I would think just up arrow on the numpad is what you are discussing, which reads the current object.

 

Gene

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From: Quentin Christensen

Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2020 7:36 PM

To: main@techtalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] reading a Microsoft excel sheet letter by letter

As well as Howard's method, which will move through the whole cell contents, with NVDA, you can press NVDA+up arrow twice quickly (or if using laptop keyboard layout, NVDA+L twice quickly) which will spell the current line (press just once to read the text rather than spell it) - so you can read the first line within a cell without going into edit mode - names and phone numbers are probably only on one line each.

Quentin

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:33 PM Howard Traxler <htraxler7@...> wrote:

When I need to do that, I go into edit mode (F2), then I can left and
right around in the field. When finished with that cell, I press enter
and realize I'm on the next row.  So, if I'm not finished with the
original row, I have to up arrow to get back to it.

Howard

On 1/9/2020 7:26 PM, Troy Burnham wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just been given a Microsoft Excel sheet and I need to know how to
> read letter by letter in each column. It's a list of names and phone
> numbers and I need to be able to read especially the phone numbers one
> digit at a time.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Troy
>
>
>
>

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