Troy, Try using plain old control F, sometimes jaws, in earlier versions, just doesn't work like it's supposed to. If you try this continually and it doesn't work either, reboot the machine, chances are pretty good that your find function will work fine once the computer is rebooted. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy Sullivan" <tsullivan6058@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 8:34 PM Subject: jaws find not finding anything > Hi all. On our computers at work, the jaws find does not work like > it's suppose to. What happens is when we are searching for a > particular item rather it's within a notepad, a program, etc. A lot of > the time jaws will say find result searchstring not found, even when > we know darn well what we are looking for is actually in the document. > We were wondering what is causing this issue, and is there a fix? On > my work pc I have jaws 6.0 and my co-worker that is having the same > issue is running jaws5.0. These are networked machines running windows > 2000. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > Troy > -- > JFW related links: > JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ > Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com > JFW List instructions: > 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 -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: 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