Funny, the word in context has never worked for me in Outlook Express and neither does the spell checker drop me at the offending word when I drop out of the spell checker as it does in Word or MS-Outlook. This through all versions of jaws from 2.2 through 7. I don't yet have version 8. So, is there something I need to do to make this work like it does in Word and Outlook? Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada DLeavens@xxxxxxx Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:13 AM Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem Hi, Yardbird. It sounds improbable, but have you not rebooted your PC during this time? I find that spell-checker gets exhausted after prolonged use and stops working properly, if at all. A reboot usually fixes the problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: Yardbird For only what seems like a few weeks, spell check while I'm composing email in OE composing email seems to have suffered a bit of a breakdown. For some typos and misspellings, it still lets me "see" the suspect word in context when I press the Jaws/Insert key plus C. But a good deal of the time, now, to my considerable distress, if I can't recall from the sound of the mistake what I meant to say and choose well from the list of options for replacement, and press Insert C, all I hear is "Word not found." This isn't much help, of course, so I give the command to Ignore the mistake and go on. After closing the spell checker when it's done as well as it was able under the circumstances, I close it and review the entire message, seeking out the remaining mistakes manually and correcting them myself. This isn't nearly as much fun as having a fully functional spell checker working for me. to put it nicely. Any ideas? This is Jaws 7.0 and OE 6, and I haven't changed anything in either of those two applications for ages. Maybe even forever. Thanks.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/565 - Release Date: 2/12/2006