I use CTRL SHIFT O to bring up a list of objects (including text boxes) then press enter on the one you want. In my experience it’s very hit and miss as to how JAWS reads text boxes and not sure why FS hasn’t managed to perfect that a lot more. Where I can I get colleagues not to use text boxes. Peter From: Bill White Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:04 AM To: jfw mailing list Subject: Reading text boxes in MS Word 2003 What is the key stroke for reading text boxes in Word 2003? Thank you. Bill White billwhite92701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6055 (20110419) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com