I would like to try the Dragon. Which version would be the one for my purposes? Home, Preferred, or Professional and what version number? Would be using it with MS Word and E Mail along with Jaws

Ah, that may explain why I can open the .doc files with Jart. I was going to tell you I hadn't had a problem, then I read the article. It's a little conversion file that you install and forget

I could not get it to open a .doc document. It said to open Windows 2003.doc files, I would need the Microsoft Office Pack. I followed the link. When I tried to install it, I was told that I

I downloaded Jarte and it looks like a good program. However, it will not open my Word 2000 documents. I will paste in information I got from Jarte upon trying to open a file and then information

An alternative to using an unfamiliar word processing program might be to change all the file extensions with a single command. In DOS, it was possible to change all filenames by typing Ren [old

What operating system are you using? RJ

It does open doc files. I just opened one, hence why I said so in my post. I checked first. Samara

The page at http://jarte.com/features.html clearly states that Jarte opens .doc and .docx files. And that is the free version. The $19.95 version does all that besides allowing for customizable

But it won't open word documents RJ

JAWS has always worked well with Jarte, even its free version. Just go ahead and try it! Dean

Jarte works very well with JAWS. In fact, if all you want is a basic word processing program, then Jarte works even better than MS Word. It is optimized to work with screen readers, and its menus

I use jarte, and you can open doc files with the program. I like it. It has spellcheck, word count features and more. Samara

Does anyone use a free word processing program called Jarte? The features sound like they will meet my needs, but I wonder how well it works with JAWS. The website is: http://www.jarte.com/ I have

that what I would like to see. It suppose to be better in checking for viruses.

What's the difference between the beta and the current release? Peter

Hi, I don't think the correction box is so important now that it learns from keyboard corrections i.e. just edit the word it got wrong in your document and it should learn that. I also found with JAWS

Hi, I installed it all using JAWS myself and haven't read any of the manuals or help files as it was all pretty easy to just follow. I'd suggest when doing any of the training (which is optional) that

Hello: Assuming you are installing this on your own machine and do not have to worry about an information technology department's oppressive security settings, everything should be pretty

I use Startingpage.com for the same reason -- so as not to be watched by my search engine! LuRetta

Hi, Thanks for the help. I talked to Freedom Scientific this morning and we did the window class reassign and it didn't work. I gave up and went back to the lite version that worked well with JAWS.