Hi derek, just write it like you normaly would. As was said by some others here already each screenreader user sets his preferences for the verbosity and punctuation, to their own liking. I do have my jaws set to read some punctuation and since I am on the computer all the time listening to jaws voice all the time, I tend to blend out even hearing stuff that would interupt the flow of reading. And people can adjust the settings easily. Regards chrissy ----- Original Message ----- From: Derek Binkley <mailto:dbinkley@xxxxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:11 AM Subject: Pronunciation of subsection in Word Hi, I am planning on distributing a Word document to some of our customers some of whom will be using Jaws to read the document. I am new to Jaws and am not sure how to deal with pronunciation of certain punctuation. This document is organized into sections which are crucial to the meaning of the document. Once example is a section I which has subsections (a) and (b). When Jaws reads these subsections it pronounces them as follows, "left paren ah right paren." Can I leave this text as it is or would it be better to change it somehow so that it is pronounced more clearly? Thanks for you help. Regards, Derek Binkley __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4239 (20090713) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com