Hi Lissi, Mica, Allison and to whomever else this might apply, I've been feeling baffled all day by your superscript issue since I'm on JAWS 9 and Word 2003 and although I've had it happen occasionally it isn't happening any more often with JAWS 9. One possible answer is the "AutoCorrect Options" within Word. Please try the following and see if it makes any difference: 1) Type alt+t for the "Tools" menu. 2) Arrow down to the "AutoCorrect Options" and press <ENTER>. 3) The tabs you will be concerned with are "AutoCorrect" and "AutoFormat As You Type". Press tab until you get to the list of tabs such as "AutoCorrect". These tabs are a duel layer so you may have to use the Up and Down Arrow to get to the appropriate tabs. 4) Under the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab press tab and you will be placed in a list box where you can check and uncheck items. For example, one of the options is "Ordinals (1st) With Superscript". This option is checked by default so even if you had heard JAWS announce "Superscript" and you deleted the word, 1st, and retyped it the "AutoFormat As You Type" would put the Superscript back in. 5) After unchecking and/or checking appropriate options, press <space> on the "Okay" button to leave the dialog box. I hope this is the answer and it helps. I don't like feeling baffled all day <smile>. Take care! Cindy 4 A smile is the same in any language. --Author Unknown -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Estelnalissi Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:58 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] big help with word on or off list Dear Booksharian Friends, After validating over 250 books reading word by word over the past 2 and a half years, I'm still befuddled by my computer and need serious help with new problems that are cropping up for no reason I can understand. I'd be so grateful if anyone can help me on or off list! These problems are making me even slower than I already am because I read each book through and provide carefully written and proofed synopses. Most of these difficulties started after I loaded JAWS 9.0 which has made many improvements. I'm also using word 2003 and maybe the books that are difficult for me have been edited in word 2007. I have written to for of the people whose scans I've worked on lately to ask if they use word 2007. One of then has already answered to say she isn't using Word 2007. Here are some examples of the problems I'm having . 1. Most of the time I make individual corrections by backspacing to delete and writing in the correction. When I backspace, for the past month or so, I'm hearing jaws 9 say nonbreaking space or hyphen. These nonbreaking things take up the space of a character. When I delete them with the backspace and space again or put in my own hyphen, jaws says the normal space or hyphen. No more nonbreaking. How are nonbreaking spaces etc different from characters that just say their name like space? 2. In one part of book I'm validating now, when I try to insert 3 spaces at the beginning of paragraphs, a useless gesture I know because Bookshare eliminates them, but I can't help myself if they are indented in the print copy, a blank line is inserted, but I'm unable to place spaces before the first word of the paragraph. 3. As I proofread, I often hear jaws say end subscript or superscript. I've tried highlighting the document and making sure sub and super script are unchecked, but they remain. The print in these sub and superscript words doesn't look any different from the print before and after it as far as I can tell. Sometimes I can make the super and sub scripts disappear by backspacing over them and writing in the text again, but this doesn't always work. This is happening with scans I've received from submittors and scans I've done myself. In the scan I've done, I hear them as I proofread. I think the BRF ignores super and sub scripts even when we need them to indicate notes, etc, but I don't know what happens to them in daisy files. 4. I'm back to having that character replacing problem I had before and have forgotten how to correct it. I'm in some kind of character replace setting where the letter I type over disappears. For example, if I write step instead of stop and put my cursor over p and backspace to erase e and then type in o, I get sto because the p has disappeared. If I place the cursor on the space after sto and type in the p, I get stop, but the space has gone. I'll appreciate any help I can get with these frustrating computer misbehaviors. Or, I admit, they could be my own misbehaviors because I still don't know enough about how my programs work. airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Always with love Lissi To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.