Diane,

You can insert a file into a document in Word 2007 and above by holding 
down alt and typing the key sequence n, j, f (for Insert, Object, and 
File). When you do this, the Open dialog comes up. Arrow to and press 
enter on your file as usual. The new file is inserted at the cursor 
location.

If you want the files to have the same formatting, One way to do it is 
to go into File>Options>Advanced and work with the options that say 
things like, "When cutting and pasting, keep text only." Advanced has 
lots and lots of options. These items are in the Cut and Paste grouping.

Another way to do it is to highlight the entire document, copy it to the 
clipboard, paste it into a blank document using Paste Special 
(alt+ctrl+v) and Unformatted text, which is one of the choices. 
Sometimes you need to go into font to choose a font and to clear 
formatting. Doing this is a lot less painstaking than using the Jaws 
analyzer, which doesn't always give helpful information.

About hearing the word "Catalan," the only thing that comes to mind is 
that this is a language tag. If the document was created while Word was 
set to a different proofing language, Jaws announces the language of the 
document. Jaws also sometimes announces the language if your system is 
set to a different language.

You might try setting the language of the document to English. Open the 
rtf document. Use ctrl+a to select all of the text. Go into Review, then 
into Language. I don't remember if Word 2007 is the same or different 
from Word 2010. In 2010, there are two items that say Language. The 
second one is the one that allows you to set the proofing language. 
Press enter on that item. Then select English U.S. from the drop down 
list, pressing enter on OK when you're done. That should change the 
language of the document to English, so Jaws should stop telling you 
it's Catalan.

Hope this helps.

ciao


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