Here's how I stopped JAWS from saying read only edit in Outlook Express. I'm still running JFW 6.0 and don't know if it works with 6.1 and 6.2. My verbosity options were already set to advanced and so changing them to advanced didn't work here. The tip worked on my Win 98 se machine and on my XP Home one. Press insert six for the configuration manager. Press control shift D for the default file. Press alt S for the set options menu. Press M for the speech and sounds manager options. Tab and enter on the edit current scheme button. Control tab to the control type tab. Press R in the listview until you hear read only edit. Tab to the set of radio buttons and arrow down to the radio button for ignore. Tab and enter on okay. Tab and enter on okay again. Enter on yes to save the changes to the sound scheme. Press alt f4 to leave configuration manager and enter on yes to save the changes. You may need to restart jaws for the change to take effect. Hope this helps, Margaret Robert wrote: Of course, you are now reading your messages in HTML format. Some say this leaves you more susceptible to viruses that can be embedded in HTML text. Others say with an up-to-date virus checker that this is in fact not an issue. Usually, I read my messages in HTML but if I seem to be getting a bunch of unusual messages in my In-box, I will read in plain text for a while. I use message rules so various lists are sorted into their separate mail boxes. Another way I have heard to stop this "read only edit" business is to set your verbosity settings to advanced but I have not tried this but of course it would not be a big deal to try it if you wished. -- 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