Hi Dave. Thanks. I tried your suggestion and it worked. In fact, it works perfectly fine for my needs. Is it just me or are a lot of the features in both MS Word and Outlook getting to be less JAWS friendly with newer releases? It seems that way to me. At any rate, thank you for the suggestions, Dave, and everyone else who responded. Chris Feist - The one and only! -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Speck Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:55 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Thesaurus in MS Word 2003 Hi Chris, One way to use the Word 2003 Thesaurus is to put your cursor on the word you want Synonyms for and press the Applications key which will bring up the Context menu. Arrow up to Synonyms and press Enter. You will then have a partial list of synonyms to choose from. I know this does not give you full access to the thesaurus as you had it before, but it may help in some situations and could get you out of a bind if you really need a replacement word. Another choice for such a tool is to install the American Heritage Dictionary, which is very JAWS friendly and offers many more word choices than Microsoft word ever did. Regards, Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Feist" <ccfeist@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:26 PM Subject: Thesaurus in MS Word 2003 > Hi. First off, In MS Word XP I can bring up the thesaurus by using Shift > F7. I then have no difficulty using the thesaurus function. > > In MS Word 2003, however, things seem to be vastly different. Shift F7 no > longer works to bring it up. I found the thesaurus under Tools and then > under research. From that point on I can't seem to navigate the thesaurus > with JAWS. I can't figure out how to utilize it, and I've done a help > search to try and figure out what to do coming up with no helpful > suggestions. My question is with JAWS can I take advantage of the thesaurus > in version 2003, and if so, how? Thank you for any thoughts. > > > Chris Feist - The one and only! > > > -- > 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 -- 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