Hi Nancy, Here is a possible low tech solution. It should work on vista. On the line where it asks you for the file name, put the drive letter of the external drive followed by a colon. for example: G: my document.txt This will force the file to be saved on the external drive. If you know the specific directory, put that in there. Otherwise, from there you can use explorer and move the file to any directory you wish. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy Shugart Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:13 AM Don and List, After working with Jaws tech support this morning, my computer is working better. Now when I go to Notepad, I do find the save as option. However, I still don't find it asking me where to save to. I want to save to my external hard drive but no options are given where to save to. Maybe it is called something different? Nancy Thanks for any help you can offer. -- 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