I've had that problem. I think there is something in Word that does this after hitting enter, but I don't know why. Try putting a space before and after the stars or group of stars. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:34 PM Subject: Jaws not speaking normal characters, suddenly I'm working in a Word document and decided to mark the division between sections of the piece I'm writing by typing three asterisks (stars)at certain points. I've used this character for similar purposes often,. But this time, even though if I set Jaws to echo my typing by character, I hear the stars being typed, I can't find them afterward. Jaws is silent, as if I'd typed nothing on that line. I tried another couple of such characters, just out of curiosity. Like the dollar sign and the number sign. Same thing happened. Now, on all these keys-- 3, 4, etc.-- the numbers appear for Jaws after I type them. But not the characters produced by pressing the shift key with them. I'm using Jaws 6.0. Could this be some sort of glitch in this version? Or could I have inadvertently set something in an area of Configuration Manager that would silence these characters, without knowing it, so I don't know what to look for and reset? Thanks to anyone who recognizes this problem and can point me toward a solution. It's really inconvenient not to be able to type these ordinary characters and hear them with Jaws. I'm sure they're visible, so that isn't what I'm wondering. I want to know why Jaws is ignoring them, once they've been typed. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/2005 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx