Re: JAW's5.1stops reading in Outlook Express

  • From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 08:17:10 -0400

have you tried maximizing the draft?  Have you tried changing the say all by 
options?

Johnnie Apple Seed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fly on the Wall" <fly_on_a_wall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 10:12 PM
Subject: JAW's5.1stops reading in Outlook Express


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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