Microsoft Excel 2007: Text-To-Speech Commands

Did you know that Excel can read back to you?  I used this recently to help me double check data entry work that I did.  It was great and it saved me a lot of time.

1. Next to the Quick Access Toolbar, click Customize Quick Access Toolbar
2. Scroll down, and click the Speak Cells commands, and then click Add.
3. Click OK.

When you want to use a text-to-speech command, click on it in the Quick Access Toolbar.

To play back a group of cells:

1. Select a group of cells to read back.
2. Choose how the computer will read back your data by clicking By Rows or By Columns.
3. Click Speak Cells
4. To correct an error, click Stop Speaking and use your mouse and keyboard to make the necessary changes.
5. Click Speak Cells to make the computer continue to read back your selection.

You can select a specific range of cells for the computer to read back to you, or you can click Speak Cells Button image without selecting any cells and Excel will automatically expand the selection to include the neighboring cells that contain values.

Try it!