Could you edit the text using Notepad, Word etc to remove the 3 dot parts, = then Jaws wouldn't have a problem. Cheers Chris=20 -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Darran Ross Sent: 10 May 2007 14:29 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Looking for Default Dictionary Advice=20 Hi Erica, surely if I put break or section in the relevant edit box, JAWS=20 will say break or section when the text occurs? In fact, I've just tried it and that is indeed what happens. Have I misunderstood your directions? Darran ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Erica Cole" <ec0011@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:50 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Looking for Default Dictionary Advice | Well when people write those in books etc I open the default dictionary, = =3D | then | add the periods as period space period space period. In the replacement = =3D | box, | I put period period period without spaces. This makes it sound like it =3D | is | trailing off. However, what you could put in there is the word break or | section. This should work. | | Erica=3D20 | | -----Original Message----- | From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] = =3D | On | Behalf Of Darran Ross | Sent: 10 May 2007 13:33 | To: Jaws-UK | Subject: [jaws-uk] Looking for Default Dictionary Advice=3D20 | | Hi List. | | I've been messing about with the default dictionary in version 8 to try = =3D | and=3D20 | find a way to stop JAWS from announcing the following; | | period period period | | I receive a couple of newsletters in which the author always breaks up=3D= 20 | sentences by inserting three periods broken by a space, so its period =3D | space=3D20 | period space period. | | I can't find any way of telling JAWS to ignore these three spaced =3D | periods=3D20 | and just move on to the next piece of text. I've tried entering the =3D | exact=3D20 | text into the dictionary and telling JAWS to treat it as a space, but =3D | this=3D20 | just doesn't work. 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