Jude DaShiell writes: > Slackware is like that on installation and I found hitting the insert and > delete keys on the numeric keypad useful. That tells you the color > combination used to show where the speakup cursor is found. Moving up and > down a list one of those items will have different colors than the rest > and > that's the currently selected item. Thank you very much. This does solve that problem and I realize that there really are 2 questions, here so I will split off another message topic. Martin McCormick