The JAWS verbosity options change according to the application you are using. If you are in an Office application, you get the smart tags setting. Interesting though about the verbosity setting for smart tags. I changed the setting in verbosity for Word smart tags to be on. I pressed escape to cancel the setting, and JAWS said that the application setting was saved, and when I went back into verbosity settings, it had been changed. Fun. huh. I learned that smart tags affect all Office applications. If you turn them off in Word, they are off in Excel and other Office applications. Although smart tags can be interesting and "useful", I perfer not to use them. The posting I sent was to turn off the smart tags in Office and just not have to bother with them. Francis -- 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