JAW's5.1stops reading in Outlook Express
- From: "Fly on the Wall" <fly_on_a_wall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:12:01 +1000
Hi all,
I've written before about how JAW's version 5.1 stops reading while reviewing
draft messages in Outlook express. It reads 3 or 4 paragraphs, then it stops
and requires the insert down arrow key combination to be pressed to continue
reading. But, even so, it will only then read another 2 or 3 sentences before
stopping again. So, it becomes a tiresome bother to read a full Email draft
from top to bottom, and, one loses any sense of how the whole document will
sound to intended recipients.
Today, after drafting a long Email to a friend, I tried reviewing the full
Draft, but as usual, ran into the same problem. So, I copied and pasted the
full draft Email text into Notepad, and voila! No problem at all. The full
Email draft was read to me without hesitation or pause!
I copied and pasted that same text back into my Outlook Express draft Email and
again, the same old problem. It stopped reading at the third or fourth
paragraph, but that's random, it could easily be the fifth, sixth or eighth
paragraph.
I then checked which format my Email was written in and found it was set to
"plain text". So, for a test, I changed it to RTF or HTML and voila! No
problem, JAW's read the full Email draft text from top to bottom without any
hesitation whatsoever.
I've just done the same test on this very Email, and again when Outlook Express
was in "plain text" mode, JAW's stopped reading just before the point where it
says, "...but that's random, it could easily be the fifth, sixth or eighth
paragraph."
Then, I changed it to RTF (HTML) and no problem, JAW's read this whole Email
from top to bottom without any hesitation at all. It beats me why this should
be so, it never happened in any other version of JAW's I've had, but there you
go, I've found a "quick and dirty" rough patch up solution to this annoying
issue.
does anybody have an explanation of why this is happening, or any idea's of
what changes to the JAW's configuration would set things to right more
permanently?
Thanks for listening! Cheers,
Flyon Thewall
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