Let Excel Read Back What You Type

You can let the Excel talk to you by following below sequence. Excel’s text to speech conversion commands are “hidden” from normal user for the reason best known to Microsoft.

In Excel 2007 or later

1. Next to the Quick Access Toolbar (on top of menu tab), click Customize Quick Access Toolbar (circled arrow below).
   
2. Click More Commands.
3. In the Choose commands from list, select All Commands.
4. Scroll down, click the Speak Cells command, and then click Add. You can try out other options available too.
   
5. Click OK.
6. When you want to use a text-to-speech command, select the cells you want and click the button you added on the Quick Access Toolbar. (Keep speakers / headphones un-muted)

In Excel 2003 and 2002

1. On the Tools menu, point to Speech, and then click Show Text to Speech Toolbar.
2. On the Text To Speech toolbar, click the command that you want to use.