Right. So there's nothing 'fatally wrong'. Did you re-assign any keys recently? use any fomplex Excel functionalities? Can you press ctrl+e and get Centred text; ctrl+l and get left Aligned, Ctrl+b for Bold, ctrl+u for Underlined, etc.? And if (In Microsoft word, of course here) you press ctrlk-down-arrow, does JAWS read by paragraph. Does something happen (for example) if you press the control plus shift keys a few times in successsion? You see there are still a number of possibilities... so to narrow it all down you will have to *keep* your own hat on!, if you want to solve this problem! (By default, the 'keyboard switching' key is alt-shift (or at least it is on my keyboard. You might have changed that to control-shift accidentally perhaps.) Did you? Is mouse selection of a word working properly? Do you know that the F8 key is also a selection key, and does that work with ctrl, and ctrl and shift? You could look in Tools Options - alt+t o. In the General Tab control, be sure that both checkboxes for WordPerfect users are unchecked. Next there's the Edit tab to look into, though nothing there in particular springs out at me from your description of the problem so far. I should add that I'm using office 2002, next up from 2000. Perhaps somebody else has the Quicksilver? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:16 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob Hi Flor, yes, the control key works when selecting a word in both notepad and wordpad. Maureen. ----- Original Message ----- From: Flor Lynch To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:18 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob Outside of Microsoft Office? Outside of Microsoft word? Does your ctrl key work when selecting, copying/cutting/pasting text in, say, Notepad, or WordPad? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:40 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob Flor, no joy on that front, you will have to put your thinking hat on again! Maureen. ----- Original Message ----- From: Flor Lynch To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:34 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Word selection prob have you rebooted your computer since this problem manifested? If not, reboot ASAP and your ctrl key may well start to work as intended. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Newelll" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:19 AM Subject: [vicsireland] Word selection prob Hello Vicsonians, I am using XP Pro with Office 2000 and find that when I go to select a word JAWS just says "selected but does not say the word and on copying word or words, as the case may be, JAWS then tells me "nothing selected". Selection line by line or letter by letter seems fine. Can anybody help? Maureen." -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.10/1091 - Release Date: 10/24/2007 14:31 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.10/1091 - Release Date: 10/24/2007 14:31