Turn automatic detection off in MS Word by going to tools and pressing L twice. Tab along til you hear that option and uncheck it. Then go to Verbosity in jaws with Insert V and uncheck language detection. HTH. Andrew. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Babcock To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 12:08 AM Subject: jaws and language I forget how to do this. I have to turn the language detection off in jaws 6.2, but dont remember how to do this. I want it to stay off. please help.