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USING SPEAK CELLS OF MS EXCEL

1. Open your MS Excel application (Ms Excel 2003 and above)

2. Add the Speak Cells to Quick Access Toolbar

2.1 Press the sub


arrow down menu

2.2 Select the MORE COMMANDS…

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Press the Sub arrow menu
2.3 A window will appear… and choose ALL
COMMANDS

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3. Excel adds the Speak Cells command to the Quick Access Toolbar at the
end, and you’re ready to go.

SPEAK Cells
Command is
added

4. Test the Speak Cells button to listen to the content of the sheet.
Please check the status of your audio devices (speaker/earphone, if working properly)

4.1 Position the cell pointer in the first cell of the range whose values you
want to read.
4.2 Click the Speak Cells button . As soon as you click this button, Excel
automatically selects all the cells it can identify as a single range in the
region around the cell pointer. It then starts reading the entries out loud
across the rows of the range as it moves down the columns.

Note: If you want to stop/cancel the reading of cell contents just press
one of the arrows.

To start again, choose the cell where you want to begin then press the
Speak cells button.

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Modifying the Text to Speech Settings
Voice (Male or female) and Voice Speed (slow or fast)

Click the Search


button then type
Speech settings

A window will appear…

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