Hi, Press shift + insert + down arrow. This will speak the selected or highlighted text on the screen. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Hallsworth Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:27 PM Subject: Re: text selection with f8 Wow, didn't realize it was a Windows keystroke! I was led to believe at my college in Hereford which I used to attend that those keystrokes are only available in Word, so thanks for that. Is there any way I could script that so that JAWS reads what paragraphs I've selected? Thanks again.