The first thing to find out is if JAWS is operational on your machine. Try running Wordpad, typing a couple lines of text and then using the up and down arrows to see if you hear those lines. In outlook, if you arrow up and down a message list do you hear the items read? The best thing to do might be to contact Freedom Scientific tech support if things don't seem to be working. Otherwise I'd be happy to give you a few pointers off list if that would help. On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Drew, Bill wrote: > Actually I was trying it in Outlook to read an e-mail message. JAWS was > running in the background but I didn't hear anything. No error messages or > anything. > > Bill Drew >