Hello Randy, How about trying this: before you send a messege to someone check there status in the main window. Hope this helps Ryan West Email: ryanwest47@xxxxxxxxxxx Msn messenger, and Skype sign in: ryanwest47 Each day after your born is one day closer to your death so make every day a special one! ----- Original Message ----- From: Randy To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:04 PM Subject: why does jaws not say when someone is away on windows messenger? afternoon or evening to all. i am using jaws 6.20 and windows xp home and windows messenger. I am having a strange issue. on the main window of windows messenger i can tell when a person is set to away. but here's the funny part. when i go in to that person's conversation window to type jaws will not say, so and so may not reply because his or her status is set to away. can you tell me of a fix? Randy