No, it says nothing when on those symbols.  I just go across the words 
that are affected, a character at a time, and each time JAWS encounters 
these symbols, there's just quiet spaces.

Carlene
Jewel Blanch wrote:
> I did copy the link to word and did a search and replace for hidden hyphen,
> but I was told that a search could not locate the symbol
> Is jaws reading pounds to you?  I wrote * symbol.  Good grief!  it has done
> it again.  Let me try spacing the word out and see if that gets past the
> crazy animal!  s y m b o l      HAA HAA!Take that!  I am smarter than you!
>
> Jewel
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Flor Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange reading problem
>
>
>   
>> JAWS is seeing ANSI character 173, some sort of hyphen (it's late here, so
>>     
> I
>   
>> may look it up later on.)  Perhaps an 'optional hyphen', not the standard
>> hyphen or dashes.  I can feel a hyphen on my braille display, so that (for
>> example) we may get 'pop-u-lar' for 'popular'.
>>
>>     
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