Quentin and William,

Step 7 describes what I experience every time when sorting a document in excel.

I am using Office 2016 in Windows 10 and latest NVDA – all latest versions.

This is a noisy and unnecessary babble of information. I always press the left alt key to silence it so that I can actually hear the options in the next drop down box.

I can also replicate this when I move away from the spreadsheet to another application and swing back again with alt+tab. This generates the full text that William describes.

The elements I hear are:

1.The Sheet title followed by the addition of "dash Excel"

2. Then "unavailable"

3.Then "Sort dialog, Sort widnow"

4. Then "Data Grid"

5. Then "Sort data Item 1 of 1"

6. Then "Order combo box, smallest to largest collapsed"

If I do not change the three boxes, "order by" "sort on" or "order", I do not get this echo as I tab from combo box to combo box.

However, as soon as I activate any one of these  combo boxes, I get the full whack of all six elements described above when I tab away from the combo box.

If I keep the alt key pressed when I press alt +tab to return to the Excel window from another application window, I hear the sheet title plus "dash Excel" but no mention of "Unavailable". However, when I let go the alt key, I then get the repetition of the Title and all six parts of the announcement.

This is an awful lot of verbiage and it has no value to me as a user.

All the best,

Cearbhall

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