Excel 365: NVDA does not report when user is at the edge of a sheet

[bhavyashah]

Steps to reproduce:

1 Open a new or existing spreadsheet in Excel. 2 Navigate to a cell whose alphabet index is a and press left arrow or whose number index is 1 and press up arrow.

Actual behavior:

Depending on the contents of the cell and cell coordinate reporting in Document Formatting Settings, NVDA will merely re-report the edge cell. The instance when this is especially inadequate is when the edge cell is empty (or has non-unique contents) and cell coordinate reporting is turned off (usually the case for me), because it is unclear if I am continuing to land on new but identical cells or if NVDA is repeating the same cell over and over again.

Expected behavior:

If this were a table in Word or on the web, NVDA would say "edge of table." If this were Google Sheets, NVDA would say "no more cells." Here too, NVDA should behave similarly.

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

Installed

NVDA version:

NVDA 2021.3 Beta 1

Windows version:

Windows 10

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

Excel for Microsoft 365

Other information about your system:

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

No

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

Yes

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

Yes

[bhavyashah]

This issue is reproducible on Excel 365 (latest updates installed) and NVDA 2023.2.