Hi to all and thanks for your help so far. Having worked out how to operate the base boost and amplification settings, I am now trying to for example, cut out the scratches/noise and space at start and end of the recording. Obviously I will have to select the bit I am working on, but how do you know what you have selected? In a Word document Jaws reads things as you select them, but really not sure how we get round this one. Many thanks. Ron