Excel 2007 is a powerful spreadsheet application that can help you manage your business or personal finances. However, if you don’t know how to use it, it can be difficult to get the most out of it. In this article, we’ll show you how to make Excel 2007 read your spreadsheets and help you get the most out of its features. First, open Excel 2007 and create a new spreadsheet. You can use any name for your spreadsheet, but we recommend using something descriptive like “My Spreadsheet.” Next, click on the “Data” tab and select “Sheet Data.” This will open up a window that displays all of the data in your spreadsheet. Now, let’s say you want to add a new column to your spreadsheet. To do this, click on the column header (the row with a number next to it) and then click on the “Insert” button. This will open up a window that allows you to select which column you want to insert the column into. Select “Column A,” and then click on OK. Your new column will now appear in your spreadsheet. You can also add columns by selecting them from the drop-down menu located at the top left corner of the Data tab’s window. Simply select the column you want and then click on OK. ..
Instead of looking between a hard copy of data and comparing it to the data entered on the spreadsheet you can make Excel read your spreadsheet to you while you are looking at the hard copy version.
Now for this to work we need to add some commands to the quick access toolbar. In the customize dialog, you’ll have to choose All Commands, and then add all the commands that start with “Speak”. (More on customizing the toolbar)
You should see those items in your quick access toolbar now…
Now select the cells you need to compare in your spreadsheet.
Finally we just need to choose to have Excel speak by rows or speak by columns. Press the Speak Cells button, and Excel starts reading the rows or columns. To stop it just hit the Stop Speaking Cells button.
Of course you will need to have speakers connected to your PC for this to work. You can also change the sound and speed of the voice by going into Speech Properties.
