Adrian, I know that, Adrian. I mean, that alt tab takes you our into another open app. But, you know, it also enables you to cycle around within what you're doing only in OE, as I've discovered. For instance, if while I'm writing this reply in an open message area, and hear an incoming mail sound and wish to see what sort of email just arrived, I can simply alt tab (yes, that's what I said) and, even if I have to go through some intervening visits to other open apps if they come up first, I'll also come to the Outlook Express Inbox, pristine as before, and then I can examine my incoming email and see what it was that I just received. I can even open the message and read it and, if I wish, leave it open and alt tab back to the reply I'm writing to you at this moment. Try it. That is what I was referring to. Finally, Adrian, I don't know what program you're suing, but in the way I have Outlook Express set up, to display the Inbox files list view on the right side and the Outlook Express folders tree view on the left (this is what displays when you set OE up to open in the Inbox, a very standard configuration, perhaps the default), tabbing and shift tabbing only take you back and forth between the files list view with the messages in it and the folders tree view in the other pane of the window. That's it. If the Address book is opened, it displays atop the main OE screen. It isn't part of it. Also, I just alt tabbed around out of this message in progress to the main Inbox screen again, launched the Address Book with my usual hotkey Control Shift B as in boy, and then experimented with pressing tab and shift tab to see if they did something different from what I'm accustomed to their doing. but no, all you can do in the address book with the tab key and shift tab is to go back and forth between that initial edit field where you may type the name of someone whose address you'd like to be taken to, or tab into the full list of names and addresses. Back and forth. That's all tab and shift tab do within the address book. They don't put you into any part of Outlook Express, including the Inbox, and bring you back again to the Address Book. If I've misunderstood your description, please explain. Im box hat shf----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:41 AM Subject: Re: aaddress book interferes with inbox It is possible to tab and shift-tab, not alt-tab, into the address book. For example, a single shift-tab from the folders list does it. Alt-tab takes you into another application. ----- Original Message ----- From: Yardbird Hi Donna, don't you mean alt -space bar_ x, not the control key? Also, what you can maximize with this command isn't "the Inbox," or the entire Outlook Express interface on your screen, but just one thing-- an open Outlook Express message. When you come upon the listing of a message in your Inbox list view, and click it open, it generally opens in a smallish window that leaves a lot of other screen elements of the Outlook Express interface showing around it. When you maximize that open message, it expands to fill all the space in the display except for the Outlook Express menu line at the top of the screen, and the status line at the bottom. This helps to allow Jaws to read the message accurately, and for you to perform editing and writing functions accurately in a reply. But in any case, the Address book shouldn't just pop up out of nowhere. It's not always sitting there as part of the Outlook Express interface. To make it appear, you have to call it up either from the OE menu or with the hotkey command Control shift B. So, what this sounds like is that maybe the Address Book is popping up on its own, mysteriously, and grabbing Jaws's focus. Now, here's something I wouldn't have thought of: Maybe this person launches the Address Book and, after doing so, never closes it by pressing Escape, but just cycles back into the main Outlook Express screen (not just the Inbox, but any feature of Outlook Express) using Alt Tab? And somehow the Address Book reappears by some accident, now and then? I don't know, that's still mysterious to me. Anyway, hope it was of some help to explain the window maximizing thing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/568 - Release Date: 12/4/2006 3:20 PM