I know this has come up before, but I still don't feel I understand when to use which of these functions, and when to use the second parameter of Delay. I have noticed that sometimes Pause seems more effective then Delay at suppressing undesired speech. For example, If I temporarily disable speech with SpeechOff, type some keystrokes, Delay, then restore speech, sometimes I still get undesired speech seemingly no matter how long the Delay is, and even if I use True as a second parameter. In this situation, Pause does seem to suppress the undesired speech. Naturally, I want to minimize time delays with speech off, so I'd like to call whichever function is optimal. Can folks share the best of their understanding/experiences on Pause versus Delay? Jamal __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts