Hi , I am using a word recognition programme called Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 6 And I find it excellent. I am still a practising Chartered Accountant.It is very good for figures after all it only has to learn how you pronounce 10 numbers. I also use it for my other work This letter was written using it. To make the system work you must be prepared to put in the time training the computer to recogise how YOU pronounce words if you do this I am sure that you will not have any problems. Any action you ca do with your mouse you can do verbally. I spent about ten days on and off to reach my present accuracy of about 95%. Greetings from New Zealand Des Hooker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn