Thanks for the thought Luke but I do have automatic calculation turned off. I agree with you, this used to be a major hold up of progress last year. I appreciate your point about "latest" in general.

Brian, The lockup only occurs when I edit a cell. I am not sure if it is because I am entering text or just because something has stopped functioning for some hidden reason. When free of the lockup, I

Brian, I pressed on the link to the office repair tool and the Firefox screen froze up totally. The rest of windows completely froze and I could not navigate the computer. I left it on all night, thin

Brian, This sounds daunting! However, you may be right and I can only try it. The lock up happens erratically. In other words, I cannot trigger it in a planned way. This means that I cannot be sure th

Thanks, Brian, Even Narrator does not come on. If I leave the computer for more than 15 minutes I find that it is active again. Yesterday, when this happened, after returning from the 15 minutes waiti

No, Jean, Even the desktop is unresponsive! In fact I cannot get to the desktop let alone do anything on it. All the best, Cearbhall m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@blb

Hi, I regularly use Excel 206 with NVDA – latest update on Windows 10. Lately, excel freezes when I type a text string into a cell in a spreadsheet containing 500 rows and 26 columns. This happens whe

Hi everyone, My sincere apologies! Please ignore my last message. I have discovered that I have an automatic reflex to hit the down-arrow as soon as the message opens. This, of course, starts me on th

Hi everyone, In the last few days NVDA has begun to behave in an unusual way. When I open up an email message in Outlook 2016, the cursor is lying on the second line of every email instead of the firs

Thanks, Gene, As you say this method does indeed work. It is the only one that I found NVDA to work with. The question is, why, in my case, does NVDA not work with the other methods even though the pe

Brilliant, Robert! You have given the most successful answer! This is just what I needed. Pressing The “I” took me to the information that I was looking for. Thanks to all who took the trouble to resp

Hi all, I would like to find a clean, simple way to determine how much RAM is on a PC running windows 10. I have tried control+shift+escape to launch the Task Bar but all that NVDA reports is the open

Hi Krit, I wonder if your table has defined the first row as the heading row? This may be set in the definition of the table. Even though the row is intended to contain data as you say, the definition

Brian, I followed your instructions and was informed that I was not up to date because I have version 21H1. Then I downloaded 21H2 and when that completed, the update refused to run because it said th

Betsy and Brian, I also have 21H1 and a notice that my PC is up to date! However, when I ran Brian’s link, the download manager tells me that I am NOT up to date and offers to download the 21h2 versio

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Hello, all, Somebody replied this evening saying that they answer ranking question frequently with no problem. Unfortunately, I lost the contact. If you find that ranking questions give you no problem

Hello, all, I have recently discovered how to answer a ranking question in a survey form. I have colleagues with a visual impairment who are also users of NVDA and would like to practice on a sample o

Quentin, Yes, I think defining the area as a table would make it easier to limit the active area. Here is a good example of reasons for a slow Worksheet: https://trumpexcel.com/suffering-from-slow-exc