Paul, basically, it is a list of names and numbers and Departments which were in Excel format and was printed off for me. I in turn scanned them in and transferred them to word but when I want to find someone quickly JAWS reads a load of stuff before stopping at where I want. Also, if I arrow to the right, "tab" is spoken before each item and is very annoying plus slows down things. If I could get rid of tabs I could get to point required much quicker and no, it would not throw this document out of sink. Somehow I think it is not possible to do it automatically, I think I will have to go through each line and delete tabs manually. Would be glad of your help, if you can. Maureen.