Using MS Word as the email editor is asking for trouble in Outlook. I can think of no reason not to use Outlook's built-in text editor. It acts, for the important stuff, just like MS Word (including spell check), and 99% of the headaches go away. I could swear I read that FS recommends not setting Word as the default editor, but that recommendation could have come from another screen reader maker. I know I had lots of problems when I tried, quite accidentally, to use MS Word as the default email editor. I would switch back if I were you. Ed Marquette 930 West 34th St. Kansas City, MO 64111 (816) 561- 7111 -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:00 PM To: JAWS List Subject: Outlook 2000 and MS Word Hello All, I use Microsoft Outlook 2000 with MS Word as the default Email editor. I notice that when I'm editing an email in Word and I enter into a Word dialog - the spellchecker, the insert footnote dialog-JAWS suddenly looses focus in the dialog and lands me back into my document. I might for example be tabbing through the spellcheck dialog when I suddenly realize that JAWS is actually inserting the tab characters into my file! Any hints? -Grant Hardy Email/MSN: grant_hardy@xxxxxxxxx -- 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. 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. 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