I have a little annoyance with jaws. I'm using jaws8. This happens when jaws reads a message in outlook when I open it . There is a verbosity option for jaws to automatically read a message. Each time the message starts with one single word followed by a punctuation sign and a line break, jaws pause for very long before continuing to read the rest of the message. Say for instance the message begins with hi. Hi is written with a period and then the poster press enter, in such case jaws pauses very long after reading hi before it reads the rest of the message. Is there a way to change this? Currently I add this hi, to the dictionary but then jaws doesn't pause at all. It reads the hi followed by the rest of the message without any pause. The correct way is : jaws is suppose, when the word hi is at the top, to only pause a fraction of a second and then continue reading. But if the word hi or any single word is written at the top followed by any punctuation mark and then a line break, then jaws takes about 10 seconds before it continues reading, and if I add hi. To the dictionary, jaws then reads without pausing. Is there a way to add line breaks to the dictionary manager? I can't expect of all list members from all the lists I belong to, to avoid a line break if they begin their message with a first line like hi. If the word hi is written at the top without any punctuation mark and pressing enter, then jaws reads it correctly. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: 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