yes, that's what merge settings is supposed to do, but that's not what I did for me. not only did I have to redo my classic laptop setting, but my speech rate for IE wasn't changed either. who knows what other changes it didn't pick up. ----- Original Message ----- From: G.W. Cox To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 8:41 PM Subject: Re: merging jaws 7.10 with 8.0 Merge picks up Jaws settings and scripts. For those of us who are lazy and forgetful, it comes in handy. Some people do like to start with an untainted copy of the new version. ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Sherman To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 8:07 PM Subject: Re: merging jaws 7.10 with 8.0 Hi, Forgive me for sounding ignorant but for what reason would one use the merge function? I think I know but would rather be sure. Thanks for all the help. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Mathew Menard To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 12:45 PM Subject: Re: merging jaws 7.10 with 8.0 go to utilities menu, then select merge utilities then select the version you want to merge with. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeanette To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:35 PM Subject: merging jaws 7.10 with 8.0 What do I do to merge settings? I thought I could find it in jaws 8.0 but it's not there. Where is it? Did they change it? Jeanette