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Shortcut keys for the disables
Is there an alternative to Control and Select to select multiple ranges in
Excel? My friend has the use of only her right hand, after a stroke, and is finding it very hard to use this feature. Thanks |
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Misha
If she can reach the SHIFT and F8 keys(I can) she can place Excel into "Add" mode. Selection of non-contiguous cells and ranges is then possible using the mouse. Just F8 twice to get out of Add mode. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:23:02 -0800, "Misha" wrote: Is there an alternative to Control and Select to select multiple ranges in Excel? My friend has the use of only her right hand, after a stroke, and is finding it very hard to use this feature. Thanks |
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Hi Misha,
Try looking up "sticky keys" which means you press one key at a time. Microsoft and other vendors such as IBM have help for those with disabilities and have contact information as well. Accessibility / Disability / Impaired Sight / Keyboard Access (#accessibility) http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...#accessibility In fact you may note the links remain the same for IBM after several years, but none of the accessibility links work for Microsoft (four week half life). So you might start here for the links at Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/ but first look in your system help for accessibility and in your Excel help for accessibility. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Misha" wrote in message ... Is there an alternative to Control and Select to select multiple ranges in Excel? My friend has the use of only her right hand, after a stroke, and is finding it very hard to use this feature. Thanks |
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Take a look at Control Settings, Accessibility
for modifying accessibility options. If she has complete control of her right hand, I would certainly suggest getting a five button wheel mouse. You can see my own settings at My Notes on Mouse Wheel and Button Settings http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mouse.txt Preferably (in my opinion) with button 4 on left side and button 5 on right side rather than both on same side. Following Gord's suggestion the use of Shift+F8 might be a better shortcut for your friend for the wheel button (I have it set to Enter). You might take a look at these pages particularly at the identified fragment ids (#...). http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/fillhand.htm#mouse http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/shortx2k.htm |
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Thank you guys, that was a really great help.
"Misha" wrote: Is there an alternative to Control and Select to select multiple ranges in Excel? My friend has the use of only her right hand, after a stroke, and is finding it very hard to use this feature. Thanks |
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SHIFT and F8 keys she can place Excel into "Add" mode.
I'd like to put this on a toolbar button, but I can't find the command in CustomizeCommands (I wish Excel had an "all commands" choice like Word). If there isn't a command I could drag to the toolbar, what would be the VBA code to toggle "Add" mode? TIA, Andy |
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Hi Andy,
You probably want to use sticky keys, but to turn on ADD mode which you'll see in the status bar http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/statusbar.htm To make a macro I think you would need to use Sendkeys http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...thsendkeys.asp + for Shift {F8} for F8 I can't make a toggle for you because I don't know how to detect if "ADD" is on. So with this you would have to hit F8 twice to turn off, unless someone knows more about this. Sub ADD_mode() Application.SendKeys "+{F8}" End Sub To make a toolbar button see Toolbars, Custom Buttons and Menus http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/toolbars.htm Place the word "ADD" into a cell, provide a background color Make the button square so you can see what it will look like because it will be distorted to 16 x 16 bits. Select the cell, copy (ctrl+c), Tools, customize, Command (tab), macro (on left), drag the macro button with the happy face to the toolbar Right click on the new button, Paste Button Right click on the new button Assign macro edit button, paste, assign your macro. Or you can skip the macros by setting a mouse button such as the wheel button in Control Panel (mouse). --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Andy" wrote in message ... SHIFT and F8 keys she can place Excel into "Add" mode. I'd like to put this on a toolbar button, but I can't find the command in CustomizeCommands (I wish Excel had an "all commands" choice like Word). If there isn't a command I could drag to the toolbar, what would be the VBA code to toggle "Add" mode? TIA, Andy |
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Sub ADD_mode()
Application.SendKeys "+{F8}" End Sub This'll do David, even if I have to <escape or Shift-F8 twice out of it (a right click sort of works also). ----------------------- I didn't know I could paste anything onto a Custom Button, I thought I was limited to pasting button icons from FaceID. Thanks! Andy |
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Should have also mentioned centering the text
vertically with Format, cells, alignment before pasting it to a button. "Andy" wrote I didn't know I could paste anything onto a Custom Button, I thought I was limited to pasting button icons from FaceID. |
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Should have also mentioned centering the text
vertically with Format, cells, alignment before pasting it to a button. I've been fooling with how to make it look like I want. I'll go back and see if I covered what you mention. Thanks, Andy |
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