Yes, in the jaws5 update, I believe this is fixed. Troy ----- Original Message ----- From: "BD" <bram4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:36 AM Subject: Re: Office APS with JFW5 > I've not had them crash, but I did have difficulty with Word reading > properly. I've seen the "gathering information" dialog box in Excel but > only for a short time probably because my spreadsheets are not huge. To fix > the problem with Word originally I went to Kathy Ann Murths' site for > tweeking programs to work with speech. That helped and then I also > installed the latest Jaws update which seemed to help as well. > > You can check out her suggestions at... > > http://www.accesstechnologyinstitute.com/reference/config/ > > Brad > > > Jason Boston wrote: > >Anyone having problems with JFW5 (original) and Office XP? > > > >I notice my problems mainly in Word and Excel. And usually I only have > >problems in Word when I'm using a spreadsheet in Excel that is rather large. > >Many times I'm working with a workbook that can be anywhere from 50 to 300 > >megs in size. Jaws doesn't seem to like these files too much either. Any > >idea on how to keep Word and Excel from crashing on me? > > > >Also, jaws tells me it's gathering information when I open up a large Excel > >file. If I tab away and tab back, sometimes the gathering information box > >will just keep repeating itself over and over again until I manage to close > >Excel. Any ideas on how to fix this? > > > >Thanks, > >Jason > > > > > >-- > >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. > > > >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 > > > > -- > 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. > > 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 > -- 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. 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