Dorothy, I will explain the process of getting rid of "Read Only" with a little more details. There is no reason why you shouldn't do it yourself. Go into the application you want to change. Bring up Configuration Manager, I use Insert F2 and cursor down once. Press enter and then press Alt S to get into Set Options. Cursor down to Speech and Sounds Manager and press enter. Tab twice to an edit field and then press enter again. Press the Ctrl and tab to go into the second page. This is called the Control Type page. Just press R until it says "Read Only. Now tab once and you will be in a list of Radio buttons I think. If you cursor up once it will say "Ignore checked". They are called radio buttons because they are automatically checked when you land on them. From here just tab to the Ok button and exit in the usual way, saving the changes in the process. If you think you've made a mess just tab to the Cancel button and start again. As regards the =20 problem I'm not too sure but I thought that was a problem caused by your ISP. I don't think there is much you can do about it except contact them. I suppose you could put it in the Dictionary Manager and get Jaws to treat it like a space and therefore it will say nothing. That would be a temporary fix. Best of luck Dorothy. Regards David -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dorothy Ingram-Gorban Sent: 03 January 2007 10:20 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Katherine Turner, Read only Edit. Well Katherine I am not sure when exactly Jaws started saying "read only Edit" but it seems to be if using Outlook Express, it appeared to start after higher versions of Jaws went on. , quite a lot of people on Jaws list have it. Andy has given a possible cure which I think was given to him by a Jaws list member. I am going to wait before trying it until a sighted person visits in case I mess it up. At the moment my laptop sound has muted, and that means I will not have a back up if I try fixing it. A friend may call in today but she does not use a laptop but she may be able to raise sound on laptop. It is infuriating since my laptop Toshiba, did have a Sound flaw and a patch was sent, patch helped but if I ever get another laptop I will not let another person choose it , but will choose myself and ask questions, I did not know a thing about Notebooks, but listening to Computer Active Mag, and asking I am wiser. If back to your question you o not get Read only Edit. do you get when reading the list the words "equals 20. I think Tiddy suggested a cure some time back. again I have not done it in case I make a mess of it. Dorothy. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq