Hello, Thanks for this tip. It is nice to have a work-around. I have always set up Excel to edit directly in the cell, because past experience indicated that was best. I’ve had Excel issues

Exactly, that's why it's a user preference. Cheers Chris

I was making a joke. Michael Cross B.S., M.S. Mathematics The negation of a half truth is at best another half truth.

What do you mean by the English dictionary? Whatever you were referring to, my suggestion of changing the NVDA dictionary for one specific word followed by an explanation point will probably work if

My suggestion to changed the dictionary referred to the English dictionary, not the NVDA dictionary, and I wasn't serious factoriall. Michael Cross B.S., M.S. Mathematics The negation of a half truth

The text is highlighted. When text is highlighted, typing even one character completely removes the highlighted text and what you type is all that is there. In a lot of dialogs text is highlighted

Are we talking about Chrome or Firefox. If the latter, the subject line should be changed. Andy

Your listening demands are different than mine. Michael Cross B.S., M.S. Mathematics The negation of a half truth is another half truth.

That is two more syllables than exclaim uses, not a good idea. Bang is only one, but that is too distracting IMO. Glenn

Roger, Yes I cleared it. Now that I've gotten used to itI suggest that , factorial should replace exclamation in the dictionary! Michael Cross B.S., M.S. Mathematics The negation of a half truth is

Did you clear the text in the replacement field completely before typing in factorial?  If not, then what was there before would just be joined to what you type in so it would say 2 things instead of

Never mind, I found it. The page was just acting funny. Now to test it out. I think android police is a good place to test. Take care all and have a happy Monday.

A correction and another comment. I was wrong in my first message. I thought I had tested this properly but, in some way, I didn't. Sentence end does need to be changed if you want to affect how

Are you sure that's the right link? I clicked it and I don't see the extension at all. I see stuff in a diffeent language

I changed the exclamation point to be spoken as 'factorial'. I am happy. But now "wow" says wow factorial. I like it factorial.

What I thought was a bug wasn't, so my problem need not be investigated. I had been experimenting to see if the speech dictionary could be used to change how punctuation is spoken. When I tried, it

I'm not shsure what that means. Is it a bug? That setting would be expected to determine when punctuation is spoken. For example, if all is the level for the exclamation point, it shouldn't be

Hello Cearbhall, Following Quentin’s suggestion: I hit alt + f, up-arrowed to options, hit enter, arrowed down to advanced, tabbed to the check box for “directly editing cells “, unchecked

The level setting, some most all, etc. has nothing to do with how the symbol is spoken. It only affects where it is spoken. I'm testing with an old version of NVDA so this may not apply any

Quentin, When I open an excel sheet in OFFice 2016, windows 10 and latest NVDA, NVDA speaks the cell results and so I missed the fact that the worksheet was stil minimised! In that state, when I