Hi Reggie, Those smart tag things seem to be something Word does to indicate words it thinks are misspelled. I don't know how to get them not to be displayed--is there an option in the list of Jaws settings you can change by hitting insert-v? I've only seen these when working on the computer at the university which runs XP. Oh, maybe turning off the auto-correction thing in the spelling and grammar section under tools would help. When you're in that dialogue, you have to hit ctrl-tab to move between the tabs. I'm sorry I'm really not explaining this very well, maybe someone will translate for me. <lol> Kellie