When this happens to me, I sometimes find maximizing the screen helps. JFW seems to be reading the prior line where the blank line is. Merrill Louise, Pastor The Judson Fellowship Jamestown, New York cell/office 716.969.2840 "With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am glad because of God my Savior. (Luke 1:46-47) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: JFW and Word behaving oddly > I've encountered a similar problem, where the PC cursor seems to get > stuck in a Word document. I try refreshing the screen and various > navigation commands, without a reliable solution. I have turned off all > the settings that make the document more fancy or complex, leaving me > with the most plain vanilla settings. I have followed all the > recommendations in tutorials on using Word with a screen reader. It > frustrates me that in 2004 we still have these kinds of problems using > the most common word processor. > > Regards, > Jamal > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:32 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] JFW and Word behaving oddly > > > Sometimes, when I'm editing a book in Word, JFW says the same line over > and over, when I know it's not right. > Thus: > picture caption: shovel > (down-arrow) > picture caption: shovel > > And so on. In the book I'm working on now, it does it for several > lines. If I up-arrow instead, it says something else, like "blank". Why > is this happening, and what can I do about it? It makes it very > difficult to know what's actually there. Neither can I predict under > what circumstances it's going to do it. It seems to happen more often > in books with pictures, tables, footnotes, and such, than in in a novel. > Tracy > > > > >