Patricia and all, please download the latest service pack for Office 2003, SP3. To do this, do a Google search and type, exactly as shown, "office 2003 sp3" download. This may solve any problems you're having with previous service packs of Office. Good luck. Chris Hallsworth BrailleNote mPower user Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr ----- Original Message ----- From: Patricia To: JAWS users list Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: re: JAWS leaving out letters in the middle of words I thoguht maybe it was my laptop or something being strange, but my version of JAWS does the same thing, leaving out letters.... I'm experiencing this in Office 2003 student edition with the latest build of JAWS 8 v. 8.0.2173U Patricia