This write-up was composed by MysticGeek, a tech blog writer at the How-To Geek Blogs.

As opposed to looking between a hard copy of data as well as contrasting it to the data entered upon the spreadsheet you can make Excel read your spread sheet to you while you are checking out the paper copy version.

Now for this to work we need to include some commands to the quick access toolbar. In the customize dialog, you’ll have to pick All Commands, and afterwards add all the commands that start with “Speak”. (More on tailoring the toolbar)

You ought to see those things in your fast access toolbar now …

Now choose the cells you need to contrast in your spread sheet.

Finally we simply need to choose to have Excel talk by rows or speak by columns. Press the Speak Cells button, as well as Excel starts reading the rows or columns. To stop it simply struck the Stop Speaking Cells button.

Certainly you will need to have actually audio speakers linked to your computer for this to work. You can additionally alter the noise and also speed of the voice by going into Speech Properties.