In a program I use at work, negative numbers are shown in parentheses; thus, (123.25) should be read as -123.25. I tried to accomplish this with customized punctuation. There even looks to be an advanced setting that says"numeric negator text", which seems to be what I want, but no matter what I do, when JAWS sees parentheses, it won't say minus. Does anyone have any suggestions that might help? Thanks. Lora -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx