alt g takes you to the generate menu and s takes you to silence after selecting where you wanted silenced, you just use the previous key strokes From: Ron Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 3:16 AM To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [audacity4blind] Inserting silence Hi All. Could anyone advise how to insert silence of say 2 3 seconds in to an Audacity project? Many thanks. Using Windows XP, Jaws 13 and the latest version of Audacity. Ron