Thanks that helps! Now if I can just stop pushing jaws commands I think things will even be better. If I set a logon password on my MacBook will vo read the login prompt? Thanks From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Dean Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:08 AM To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: some issues This is happening because, by default, Voiceover announces text that is under the cursor instead of speaking the letter to the right of the cursor, as windows does. To change this, press VO+F8 and select "Verbosity" from the categories table. VO+right until you get to the "text" tab and select it with VO+Space. Find the pop-up button that says, "when moving the cursor," and change the selection to "Speak text to the right of the cursor." As for using the spellchecker, a couple of things. First, find the miss-spelled word and press VO+shift+M to bring up a menu that will have a list of suggested corrections and pick one. There is also a command to open the spellchecker that Keith mentioned, I know it's something+semi-colon, but can't remember what the rest of the keys in the combination are. LOL. HTH a little anyway, James A. Dean On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Craig Dunlop wrote: On my mac I am having a hard time editing documents ore emails because it will say the letter twice even when only one exists. Is there a setting I am missing? And does anyone have any quick tips for using the spellchecker?