Hi Paul, [You might want to turn on all punctuation for reading this message.] You'd probably be better off making a JAWS dictionary entry for [vicsireland] - now, I just hope freelists doesn't throw a spanner at me for how I wrote the above. (You need to include [vicsireland] including the surrounding brackets.) So, you would add [vicsireland] and in the replacement field you could press space, and SAVE your change with ctrl-s when exiting. JAWS will then not speak [vicsireland] but will speak any other variant of vics ireland properly. You can replace [vicsireland] with any short text string of your choice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Halligan" <tigerone@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:18 PM Subject: [vicsireland] column width in outlook express hi folks I Want to change the width of the from column in outlook express in this case because the length of the message received from someone at the VIPs mailing list takes about a month to say. e.g. jaws says Joe bloggs left bracket vips Ireland right bracket re . can I adjust the width of the 'from' column so that jaws just says in the case above joe bloggs vips. I went into the view menu and columns and adjusted the pixel width for this column but nothing happened. Thanks Paul h