Hi Theresa, The problem is in Excel's (and Word) not making use of Microsoft Active Accessability so that JAWS can use it to tell you what is going on. It's been repaired in Excel 2000. There is no work-around. I teach both Word and Excel, and ran head-first into that one. Similar things happen in using ZoomText. Francis -- 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