Thanks if I choose none how would you expect Jaws to behave? Jaws 11 is saying on desktop windows 7 using msoutlook "not selected, and I don't want to hear that. On my xp laptop newly refurbished to factory settings Jaws is reading for dear life as if his life depended on it, well perhaps it does!! dorothy From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hamid Sent: 28 June 2010 17:29 To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: jaws nonstop press insert + s one or two times to switch from "say all text" to "say highlighted text" or "say none" if you wish. i hope that it helps :) cheers Hamid ----- Original Message ----- From: Dorothy Ingram-Gorban <mailto:Dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx> To: org, jfw@freelists. <mailto:jfw@freelists.%20> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 7:53 PM Subject: jaws nonstop Jaws is telling me everything again unasked even the font, it is also echoing my keystrokes, it does this mad thing shouting all in sight and will finish up with time ,i do not want to know the time every second, this laptop was cleaned off put back to factory settings and instead of behaving is going off its head,tellingme things I do not want to know or ever hear again,does this happen to any of you? dorothy