Hi Shaun and Cheryl - Cheryl is right. The ins-enter combination on the keypad silences speakup until you repeat that same combination again, while just pressing the keypad enter silences the speech only until the next key press of any sort occurs. But Shaun is also right - it is the printscreen key that kills speakup, and pressing printscreen again restores it. The difference is this: If you silence speakup as Cheryl suggested, with the keypad combination ins-enter, you still have an active review mode. You just do not get spontaneous output either from your keystrokes or from an application, but you can cruise around the screen to see (okay, hear!) what is happening there. If you kill speakup as Shaun suggested, you cannot even do that. No speech of any sort, direct or review, until you reincarnate speakup with a second press of printscreen. HTH - Chuck -- Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (72% of Full)