Unfortunately, as far as I know, JAWS will only read those in actual conversations themselves (the scripts won't work if, say, they were sent to you as a text file. Though it was thoughtful of your friends I'll admit, to my knowledge there is really no way unless you already know what they are. James At 11:59 AM 03/01/2004 -0800, you wrote: >Hello: >In MSN Messenger, what exactly was that command to have JAWS read emoticons? >Some of my sighted friends, apparently with the best of intentions, sent >these to me (obviously so I could look at them smile). If anyone can help, >it would be greatly appreciated. > >Grant > > >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. 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.