wlonh,
Thanks my friend, you're a life saver... It's for my dad who just had a thrombosis and can't see as well as before on his Performa's monitor...With text-to-speech and a little control panel thingy called HearIt, he can select text in any application (word processing, browser, mail) and have it read to him with a hot key. If he likes it, I'll install him ViaVoice.
T'care and salutes from Canada,
Bobette