I had the same problem with an xp-pro machine. Unfortunately, our nortin is server controlled. I noticed that if the administrator logged-on and I started jaws, I no longer had this problem. I also noticed that other problems related to jaws having sluggish behavior while reading lists with links corrisponding to items in those lists, the loading and unloading of my alva satellite when connected to the usb port went away when the administrator was logged-on. This suggests that because of some certain setups, the permissions to some accessibility related file are screwed up. In fact, I didn't have these problems as a normal user at my community college where the access allowed for installation and removal of programs but was not administrative because it did not allow for changing of some basic features in the display settings. If this person is on a similar setup, corperate style network running xp-pro or nt, they should see if they can get installation/removal access for at least all the jaws-related files and all those dll files in windows that jaws uses. I don't know if any of this helps, but just trying to shed some light on the problem. Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:52 PM Subject: Re: JAWS not reading in Word properly Hi Catherine, You wrote: > Hi, > > A friend is using JAWS 5 and Word XP. When he opens a document in Word and > cursors down JAWS doesn't say anything. Then he alt tabs to the JAWS window > and back to Word again, and then JAWS reads when he cursors. > > Has anyone else experienced this and/or got any suggestions as to why it > could be happening? Yes. My guess is that he has Norton Antivirus installed on the machine and that the Office Plug-in is enabled and needs to be turned off. To do that, you have to go into Norton's main screen, then go into Options with an alt+o. Here's where it gets tricky, because it involves extensive use of the JAWS cursor. Use the JAWS cursor to locate Miscellaneous and do a left-click to invoke that settings page. Then, locate the line item that reads: Enable Office Plug-in. Place the JAWS cursor on the first E in Enable and do another left-click. This should turn it off. Click OK and exit out. It's been a while since I've had to do that on my system as well as anyone else's so my recollection isn't exactly clear, but you get the idea. It's kind of a pain in the patoot to do, but once it's done, everything should work normally. If my instructions need any clarification, I can send you a detailed write-up that I've stored somewhere. Write me privately and I'll dig it up for you. Tom -- 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 -- 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