Jill, It is a large block to cut. So try and be patient. When finishing cutting, Kurzweill will announce how many pages it has cut out. It may take up to 20 seconds. If it takes any longer than that, your system is doing something strange. Pratik _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 12:38 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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?