[Patrick J]

Thank you Rob

In fact I wished to get the text of the cell in a column which was not the "topic" :)

However with your AppleScript I was able to work this out.

I've come up with this:

tell application id "OOut"
	set strText to text of cell named "Spanish" of first selected row of front document
end tell

Which seems to work fine.

I'm now going to fit it into my script for speaking the text.