How do I enable text-to-speech in Excel 2007?

I like to multi-task so there are times when having Excel read back to me the values of columns or rows is a great time saver. Of course, this is fabulous option for anyone with accessibility issues too.

Text-to-speech is not available in Word yet, but you can turn it on in Excel. Here's how:

You'll see a little drop-down arrow next to your Quick Access Toolbar. Select this and choose More Commands (see image above).

Excel will open your Excel Options menu. By default, you'll be presented with the Most Popular choices. Change this to choose commands from All Commands. Now just scroll down the list and select the text-to-speech commands you want to add (they all start with Speak as seen below). Add and click OK.

I've found Excel's text-to-speech to be quite clear in reading back everything from dates to plain text to data sets. Now, when you want to use it simply select the command you need from your Quick Access Toolbar.