Dear Booksharian Friends, While working in word, I found my book document was in columns. By listening to the menu choices and by trial and error, I found the choice to decolumnize the document. Meanwhile, I don't know when because I don't look at the screen much, I realized a vertical strip had appeared to the left of the document. I didn't know how to get jaws to read it, so after a visual struggle, I deciphered the word normal on every line that had writing on it. just one word per line saying normal. Because visual checking is so tedious, I only checked about 3 pages of this. Does anyone have a clue what I turned on or off to cause the normals to appear and how I can get rid of them? Waiting hopefully... Always with love Lissi