I cannot speak for access. However while in Excel you can make document specific changes and these changes can either be stored in the document or in a.jsi file that JFW has to read to be able to read a spreadsheet as well as it does. When JF W. does this it is checking to see if there are things like column headers, row headers, total rose and total columns and other things like does this spreadsheet have multiple regions are not. All of this takes place for the specific document that you have open. I hope this helps. Chris. _____ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mathew Menard Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 5:24 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: initialization dialog in excel and access Hi, When running Jaws, I noticed that when opening excel or access, I get the following dialog. Initialization dialog. Gathering required information. Why does this occure in just those 2 programs? I find it kind of strange that it would want to gather required information in those, but not other applications. Mat. __________ NOD32 1860 (20061109) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com