Hi Jill: The speech stops probably because it will take some time for all those pages to be cut. I would try again and leave the computer for a little while.Come back and check if it worked. Good luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jill O'Connell To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 12:38 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: blank pages I have tried this three times and each time after using the control-x I lose speech and the program no longer responds. Do you or anyone else have any suggestions. Do you suppose this is just too many pages to try to delete?