That's really nice. I like that. However, Word manages to move from Normal view to Page Layout view when you work with objects, graphics, columns and bulleted list, and the like. When you save the document, it keeps that view for that document until you change it to Normal view. There's no way for Word to stay in Normal view, even in working with objects and graphics. It has to switch to Page Layout view so it can "show" you the page. Knowing that, wouldn't it be easier to recognize all 3 views work with SayAll and go from there? That was the original question, I think. And thank you for that neat script. I like stuff like that. Someone's sig line says it all: All I learned from life I learned from Googling. Francis -- 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.