hi, i'm not chris, but try to help. let say you have a list of mp3 songs, e.g. 01 - Walk Away Joe.mp3 02 - The Song Remembers When.mp3 03 - Better Your Heart Than Mine.mp3 04 - I Don't Fall In Love So Easy.mp3 05 - Hard Promises To Keep.mp3 06 - Mr. Radio.mp3 07 - The Nightingale.mp3 08 - If I Ain't Got You.mp3 09 - One In A Row.mp3 10 - Here Comes Temptation.mp3 11 - Lying To The Moon.mp3 12 - New Kid In Town.mp3 and you wish to copy track 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 to another folder. do the following steps. place your cursor at track 02, so this track already selected. to selected track 4, 6, 8 and 10, press and hold down the ctrl key and arrow down to the list. remember during arrow down the list, the ctrl key must press and hold down until all the tracks selected. during you arrow down with ctrl + arrow up/down jaws will announce "not selected" at the beginning of eatch unselected tracks, so don't release the ctrl key and press spacebar at track 4, 6, 8 and 10. after all done, then only you release the ctrl key. to make sure what have you selected, press JawsKey+shift+arrowDown, jaws will announce all the selected tracks. hope this helps. ps. sorry for my bad english. Warmest Regards, Allan Wong ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Black" <underconstruction1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 01:43 Subject: Re: Jaws and Clipboard Chris, usually I do shift/down arrow to select first file, I tried switching to control down arrow to unselect the second, then control down arrow, hit space bar with other finger on control, but did not work. is it possible you can describe step by step, how to select the first, third files? Maybe it would help me to get this once and for all. funny, I've been struggling with this for so long. I have looked at help files, can't find this function. And, Chris, thank you for the help. J. Black -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: 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