Chris, I think you must have your programs set up differently from mine in some way. First of all, I am using Outlook Express, so Word isn't an option for composing email, and I don't care one way or the other about that, though I remember someone explaining that this was considered to be one of Outlook's advantages over OE. I forget exactly why. As for Alt F7, if I invoke it during a spell check either in OE or in Word, it doesn't do anything at all. Well, in OE, it has the effect of exiting spell check, and in Word it just doesn't do anything. it certainly doesn't put up a context menu, as if I'd pressed my right mouse button or that context menu key to the right of the space bar. So I'm not able to play with these options you describe, but thanks for the suggestions, anyway. ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Jenkins To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:40 AM Subject: RE: OE spell check and Jaws problem Hello. Don't forget if you are using Word as your e-mail editor you can press "Alt+F7" and this keystroke will bring up your choices in a context menu. Of course allowing you to just press escape out of the context menu and the focus be on the misspelled word. This works with Microsoft Outlook. Your mileage may vary if you are using Outlook express. This keystroke also works from within Microsoft Word. I hope this helps. Chris. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cher Bosch Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:18 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem I think a lot of us have that same intermittent problem with OE. However, this keystroke works even when the spell-check is not doing much else correctly. Cher >>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/08/06 10:06 AM >>> Oh. Well, as long as I've been a jaws user, I never knew you could get Jaws to clear up the spell check screen or get it to review itself that way. By the way, my problem, when it happens (and it doesn't happen every session) isn't just that I can't get the misspelled word in its context. It starts even before, with Jaws being unwilling to even say "word not found" and spell out the mistake. See? It's that basic. When it's malfunctioning, all I hear when the spell check finds a word it doesn't like, immediately, is the first correction offered. No "word not found," plus the spelling of it. Sorry I didn't describe the problem clearly enough. But in any case, I'll keep this key combo in mind and try it sometime. Thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cher Bosch <mailto:Cher.Bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:31 AM Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem It's just a JAWS keystroke to re-read and spell the misspelled word and the suggested correction. It won't read the word in context, but is helpful when you can't quite catch or have forgotten what JAWS said. Cher >>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/08/06 8:42 AM >>> Insert F7? Same key command we use for getting a list of active links on a Web page? Interesting. You think that when you press this key combo when in spell check on an email message, it somehow refreshes or clarifies Jaws's view of the spell check dialogue? Sort of? I'll try it as soon as I have an opportunity. Whatever made you think of this? Did you find it recommended somewhere in some instructions, for instance? Or did you just happen to press it by accident and find that it cleaned up the spell check dialogue for Jaws? Or...? Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cher Bosch <mailto:Cher.Bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 5:08 AM Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem Have you used the Insert-F7 to at least get JAWS to re-read and re-spell the original word and the suggested replacement? This helps me get by when OE isn't providing enough info. Cher >>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/07/06 6:20 PM >>> I'd just like to testify that, although I've had Jaws versions that didn't handle the Spell Check dialogue and functions very well in OE, for the past couple of versions it's been perfectly fine. This is just some kind of recent glitch or corruption of some esoteric file deep in some program or something. I guess I'd need an I T professional to make an educated guess. We do not so badly on this list despite precious few of us being real gearheads, let alone pros, but this is one of those things it probably won't do much good just to speculate about. Oh, well. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens <mailto:dleavens@xxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:05 PM Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem Funny, the word in context has never worked for me in Outlook Express and neither does the spell checker drop me at the offending word when I drop out of the spell checker as it does in Word or MS-Outlook. This through all versions of jaws from 2.2 through 7. I don't yet have version 8. So, is there something I need to do to make this work like it does in Word and Outlook? Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada DLeavens@xxxxxxx Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt <mailto:A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:13 AM Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem Hi, Yardbird. It sounds improbable, but have you not rebooted your PC during this time? I find that spell-checker gets exhausted after prolonged use and stops working properly, if at all. A reboot usually fixes the problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: Yardbird For only what seems like a few weeks, spell check while I'm composing email in OE composing email seems to have suffered a bit of a breakdown. For some typos and misspellings, it still lets me "see" the suspect word in context when I press the Jaws/Insert key plus C. But a good deal of the time, now, to my considerable distress, if I can't recall from the sound of the mistake what I meant to say and choose well from the list of options for replacement, and press Insert C, all I hear is "Word not found." This isn't much help, of course, so I give the command to Ignore the mistake and go on. After closing the spell checker when it's done as well as it was able under the circumstances, I close it and review the entire message, seeking out the remaining mistakes manually and correcting them myself. This isn't nearly as much fun as having a fully functional spell checker working for me. to put it nicely. Any ideas? This is Jaws 7.0 and OE 6, and I haven't changed anything in either of those two applications for ages. Maybe even forever. Thanks.. ________________________________ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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