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101 Excel 2013 Tips, Tricks and Timesavers
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Tip 72: Proofing Your Data with Audio
Excel 2002 introduced a handy feature: text-to-speech. In other words, Excel is capable of speaking to you. You can have this feature read back a specific range of cells, or you can set it up so that it reads the data as you enter it.
For some reason, this feature appears to be missing in action, beginning with Excel 2007. You can search the Ribbon all day and not find a trace of the text-to-speech feature. But the feature is still available — you just need to spend a few minutes to make it accessible.
Adding speech commands to the Ribbon
Following are instructions to add these commands to a new group in the Review tab of the Ribbon:
1. Right-click the Ribbon and then choose Customize the Ribbon from the shortcut menu.
The Customize Ribbon tab of the Excel Options dialog box appears.
2. In the list box on the right, select Review and click New Group.
3. Click Rename and overwrite the default name with a more...
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